Projects tagged "ecology"

Melting Man: Red Cross-Sponsored Activist "Melts" On Sidewalk
Practitioner:
Red Cross
Date:
Dec 10 2008
A young man melting into a puddle of himself is something you don’t see everyday, much less in a busy public square. Yet this humourous but surprisingly effective spectacle is the latest effort by the Red Cross of Argentina to raise awareness about climate change.
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Clean and Reliable Water
Practitioner:
Art and Activism Caravan
Date:
Jul 13 2006
Today over 40 people gathered at the Ministry for Internal Affairs in the centre of Tirana, the capital of Albania. The issue is Tirana's drinking water, which is not clean, unreliable as it comes out of the tap only a few hours a day and that sewage systems continue to pollute the water sources.
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Design4Peace
Practitioner:
Leslie Dwyer
Date:
Mar 8 2014
Design4Peace is a collection of political posters created by Leslie Dwyer. Images speak to issues of war and peace, prisons, solidarity and movement, immigration, economy and class, violence against women, ecology, agriculture, racism, and gender. Leslie works with movement and educational organizations, such as Veterans for Peace and Teaching for Change to support their work visually.
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Melting Man: Red Cross-Sponsored Activist "Melts" On Sidewalk
Practitioner:
Red Cross
Date:
Dec 10 2008
A young man melting into a puddle of himself is something you don’t see everyday, much less in a busy public square. Yet this humourous but surprisingly effective spectacle is the latest effort by the Red Cross of Argentina to raise awareness about climate change.
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Global Earth Exchange
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Organized by Radical Joy for Hard Times, enacted by volunteers around the world
Date:
Jun 22 2013
On Saturday, June 22, a group of friends will meet at one of the more than 4,000 natural gas wells that have been drilled by hydrofracking in Pennsylvania. Instead of picket signs, however, they'll be carrying a picnic basket. For an event they're calling "Picnic on the Gas," they'll strive to show that it is possible to live with creativity and even joy in gas drilling country.
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Free Subway Ride
Practitioner:
Occupy Wall Street
Date:
Mar 28 2012
Wednesday's Free Subway Ride? That Was Occupy Wall Street
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