Projects tagged "environment"

Natural Intervention
Practitioner:
Zonenkinder
Date:
Jan 1 2006
German Forests Come Alive Through Creative 'Natural Intervention '
Sing for the Climate
Practitioner:
Nic Balthazar, The Belgian Climate Coalition
Date:
Sep 22 2012
Sing for the Climate is a big singing manifestation that first took place on September 22 and 23 2012 in Belgium.
Building an Ark for the big climate rally
Practitioner:
Auburn Seminary
Date:
Sep 19 2014
Four months ago, I was in a multifaith brainstorm for the People’s Climate March when someone said, “What if we had a giant ark?” I think we all had the same reaction: Great … but how do you build an ark?
Yes, the Climate is Changing
Practitioner:
350.org
Date:
Sep 20 2012
Yes, the Climate is Changing Video: People around the world show how climate change is already affecting their lives. [see external link or YouTube> People Everywhere Connect the Dots on Climate Change] The effects of climate change come in many guises: increasingly intense storms, too much snow, not enough snow, heat waves, droughts, floods.
#NoFutureNoChildren
Practitioner:
Emma Lim
Date:
Sep 16 2019
As leaders across the world are getting ready to gather together to discuss climate change—and what to do about it—at the UN Climate Change Summit in New York next week, hundreds of young people across the world are going on birth strike to pressure policymakers into action.
Green Map UAE
Practitioner:
Green Map UAE
Date:
May 7 2012
Green Map UAE is a place to pin, share, and quite literally, map out locations or events that are unique ecologically, culturally and considered civic resources near home or while traveling within the UAE. This portal, apart of a larger mapmaking community across more than 63 countries, uses the same tools and mapping widgets as the major Green Maps projects in the United States and Europe.
"Save the Bees" Street Art
Practitioner:
Louis Masai
Date:
Apr 23 2015
Colony collapse disorder is a colossal issue – and artist Louis Masai wants you take notice. His street art project “Save the Bees” aims to catch your attention by covering the walls of London with bees. Bees are extremely important to agriculture as they pollinate plants - yet entire colonies are disappearing without a solid reasons (there are theories, mostly about pesticide ingredients).
In Photos: The True Cost of the Tar Sands
Practitioner:
Garth Lenz
Date:
Mar 15 2012
In Photos: The True Cost of the Tar Sands Conservation photographer Garth Lenz’s exhibition seeks to show the impact of tar sands oil extraction. go to => http://youtu.be/84zIj_EdQdM
Lynn Neuman: Showing How Quickly Plastic Amasses
Practitioner:
Lynn Neuman
Date:
Jan 1 2011
Lynn Neuman, director of New York City–based Artichoke Dance, became preoccupied with single-use disposability after she started wondering about waste and who was responsible for it. For some of her performances, she has collected massive quantities of discarded plastics, like bags and six-pack rings, and invited community members to contribute their own. “There’s a real aha moment when people see how quickly plastic amasses,” she says.
Judy Chicago Launches ‘Create Art for Earth’ Campaign With Help From Jane Fonda
Practitioner:
Judy Chicago
Date:
Apr 20 2020
Judy Chicago, the pioneering feminist artist who made the iconic 1970s work The Dinner Party, has enjoyed a long and illustrious career rife with critical approval. Now, in anticipation of Earth Day 2020, Chicago is launching a new project called Create Art For Earth, wherein people from all over the world can submit their own creations to the campaign via a corresponding hashtag. “This is no time for abstractions,” the call for art reads.
Interview with an Undercover Investigator
Practitioner:
Green is the New Red
Date:
Apr 11 2012
By Will Potter  Multiple states have considered “Ag Gag” bills that criminalize investigators who document animal welfare abuses on factory farms. Iowa and Utah are the latest to approve them. These bills, lobbied for by Big Ag groups, are part of a long line of attempts to blame activists for exposing abuses, rather than hold corporations accountable.
Political Posters, Joseph A. Labadie Collection
Practitioner:
University of Michgan
Date:
Jun 1 2015
The Joseph A. Labadie Collection contains posters which have been acquired over the past 100 years. This database consists of images of those posters covering social protest movements such as Anarchism, Civil Liberties, Colonialism, Communism, Ecology, Labor, Pacifism, Sexual Freedom, Socialism, Women, and Youth/Student Protest. Some are from the first half of the 20th century, but the majority are from the 1960s and later. Many are undated.
Remember The Glaciers
Practitioner:
Glacier girl, Remember The Glaciers
Date:
Jun 15 2015
Raising awareness about climate change; adapting he aesthetic of 'eco-friendly' to appeal to the iGeneration and uncountable generations to come.
Tate Modern considers activists' wind turbine for art collection
Practitioner:
artists objecting to the gallery's sponsorship by oil company BP is being considered for the national art collection.
Date:
Jul 7 2012
Tate Modern considers activists' wind turbine for art collection: Liberate Tate, an art collective who object to BP sponsorship, have offered the 16 metre turbine blade to the gallery A 1.5 tonne, 16.5 metre-long wind turbine blade carried last month to the Tate Modern by artists objecting to the gallery's sponsorship by oil company BP is being considered for the national art collection.
Global Earth Exchange
Practitioner:
Radical Joy for Hard Times
Date:
Jun 22 2013
Once a year people all over the Earth go to places that they love and where they live that have been damaged, and they bring attention, curiosity, a sense of adventure, and beauty there. In the process we give back to the places that have given so much to us.
ALV Rooftop protest draws international coverage
Practitioner:
Animal Liberation Victoria
Date:
May 4 2011
QUESTION: Year after year, decade after decade, you alert the legal authorities to cruelty violations and suffering animals in peril, yet nothing ever happens. You know for a fact there are thousands of screaming and suffering hens inside a factory farm and you know the authorities will once again turn a blind eye, so what do you do? 


Swift Project
Practitioner:
DodoLab
Date:
May 13 2013
"Since the progress of civilization in our country has furnished thousands of convenient places for this Swallow to breed in, safe from storms, snakes, or quadrupeds, it has abandoned, with a judgment worthy of remark, its former abodes in the hollows of trees, and taken possession of the chimneys which emit no smoke in the summer season." John James Audubon, The Chimney Swallow (or American Swift, Chimney Swift, Chaotura Pelasgia), from The O
Fall in Love With Nature
Practitioner:
Nature's Cupids
Date:
Apr 28 2018
We set up a gazebo and table in a public park. The gazebo had two notice boards in the shape of trees where reflections were encouraged. We had a sign with the name of the action "Fall in Love With Nature" painted upon it. On the table were resource lists for the public to take away with links to books and websites on the topic of forest bathing and connecting with nature.
Washed Up: Transforming a Trashed Landscape
Practitioner:
Alejandro Durán
Date:
Apr 20 2015
Sian Ka’an is an extraordinary UNESCO tropical nature reserve along Mexico’s Carribean coastline, but the currents that pass by this area bring garbage from all over the world to the shores of this paradise. Alejandro Duran, an artist working in Brooklyn, NY, collects this trash and arranges it into works of colorful landscape art to examine “the tension between the natural world and an increasingly overdeveloped one.”
Coca Cola is Out of Order - Grassroots Campaign For Container Deposit Recycling in Australia
Practitioner:
Katso
Date:
Mar 4 2013
In March 2013 we started a grassroots boycott movement against Coca-Cola for exploiting legal loopholes to kill off container deposit recycling in the Northern Territory. We simply used the same successful strategy as the ANZ Out of Order action, putting out of order signs on Coca Cola vending machines and posting the photos on social media.
Somerville Stock Exchange
Practitioner:
Tim Devin
Date:
Oct 23 2012
"The Fine Art Of Investing" Spare Change News, October 19, 2012. Cambridge MA. It’s an interesting gamble.
Turf the Turf Eco Garden Bike Tour
Practitioner:
Maggie Shirley, Eco Art Incubator
Date:
Sep 27 2013
Turf the Turf hopes to inspire you to reconsider your front lawn by sharing existing examples of creative uses on a fun bike tour around the city of Kelowna. There are many options, such as xeriscaping (using native plants), front yard gardening or even installing original art that can display your creativity and offer you new ways to relate with your environment and your neighbourhood.
Anti-oilsands protest unfurled on Calgary Tower
Practitioner:
Green Peace
Date:
Aug 3 2011
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Tuesday, August 3, 2010: Several Greenpeace activists are in police custody after three of them rapelled off the Calgary Tower to hang a banner attacking the relationship between the oilsands industry and government.
The Crossroads Project
Practitioner:
Robert Davies, Fry St. Quartet
Date:
Apr 3 2012
This month’s blast of arctic air may have roused climate-change skeptics. But the composer Laura Kaminsky and the painter Rebecca Allan were unfazed. Holed up in their apartment in Riverdale in the Bronx on one of the coldest days in decades, these longtime artist-activists were doing what came naturally: fighting the planet’s warming.
Projeto Prancha Ecologica: surfboards made with plastic bottles
Practitioner:
Projeto Prancha Ecológica
Date:
Feb 17 2013
All those who practice surfing know firsthand the serious problem our beaches face: pollution. While some only complain, others do something about it. Two Brazilian surfers decided they could help raise public awareness of the need to protect nature of the proliferation of plastics used in the oceans through a novel idea: create surfboards plastic bottles.

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