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Projects tagged "Environment"

Claudia Andujar’s Remarkable Art and Activism in the Amazon
Practitioner:
Claudia Andujar
Date:
Feb 13 2023
A new exhibition at The Shed in New York is a colour-soaked, eye-opening look into Yanomami life – an Indigenous culture in the heart of the Amazon rainforest FEBRUARY 13, 2023 TEXT: Violet Conroy
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GreeenMarket
Practitioner:
GrowNYC
Date:
Jan 2 2000
GrowNYC is a nonprofit that promotes community values through environmental missions. One of GrowNYC's programs is the GreenMarkets, which are fresh produce markets that are set up in various neighborhoods in the city, each one unique to the area. These markets focus on bringing local farmers into the community as well as promoting awareness of seasonal produce in order to limit the environmental damage of importing goods.
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Climate activists painted murals on two blocks of San Francisco streets
Practitioner:
Sunrise Movement, Idle No More and Bay Area climate movement organizations
Date:
Sep 26 2019
Climate activists took to the streets in San Francisco and painted murals directly on two blocks of the city Financial District's main thoroughfare.
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Green Maps for Resilient Cities Everywhere
Practitioner:
Ideas City, New Museum
Date:
May 13 2013
How Green is My City? Take part in mapping a fresh perspective on your community! Learn about the global Green Map movement and GreenMap.org.
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The Grim Reapers
Practitioner:
Get Money Out of Politics, Backbone Campaign
Date:
Jan 14 2013
The Grim Reapers stood outside the capital building of the State of Washington as the new Governor Jay Inslee was being inaugurated. We were part of a climate change rally that lasted several hours and included many other groups protesting coal trains and fracking for oil and gas. The same groups also participated in the Seattle action on February 17,2013 when they had a bullet train for people instead of a coal train.
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21st Environmental Film Festival Puts Spotlight on Eco-Activism
Practitioner:
Environmental Film Festival
Date:
Mar 15 2013
The 21st annual Environmental Film Festival is being held in Washington DC from March 12 to March 24, 2013. Shining a spotlight on environmental issues and eco-activism, the festival features films that are both directly and tangentially related to concerns for the natural world.
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Insane PR Circus Rocks Holland—But It's Not that Polar Bear Thing
Practitioner:
The Yes Men, Greenpeace
Date:
Aug 22 2013
What seemed to be a cruel and bizarre PR campaign took over Amsterdam yesterday as a barge with an apparently drugged polar bear, a Russian child superstar, and a colorful marching band wound through Amsterdam's canals to the city zoo. There, visitors and staff watched Gazprom and Shell reps officiously give the bear to Amsterdam—before being forcibly removed by zoo security and city police.
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Ella Daish's Giant Tampon
Practitioner:
Ella Daish
Date:
Sep 30 2020
Environmental activist Ella Daish has created a giant tampon applicator as part of a protest against single-use plastic. The piece is made out of period plastic found polluting beaches, waterways, and local ecosystems in the UK. Daish sourced 1,200 applicators from 15 different locations across the United Kingdom. Of the plastic applicators collected for the project, 87.5 percent came from one brand, Tampax.
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Guerrilla gardening?
Practitioner:
Artists Agnes Dene, Alan Sonfist, Rufus Chaney, Occupy Wall Street
Date:
Nov 30 1959
Plants growing through urban cracks and concrete remind us of the power of nature. Whether its a tree or a blade of grass pushing its way through cement, an underlying chaos( or natural order) lives just beneath the surface of physical and mental organizational structures created by man.
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Fossil Free Eugene
Practitioner:
Sunrise Movement
Date:
Mar 20 2021
A group of protestors and organizers from Sunrise Movement, Earth Guardians, 350 Eugene, Cascadia Wildlands and more staged a bike march culminating with a die-in outside of the Northwest Natural Gas headquarters in Eugene, Oregon. The protestors lie on the ground outside the NWN building, beneath tombstones donning the dangers of natural gas.
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Davos Shell Station Shut Down By Arctic Oil Drilling Protesters
Practitioner:
Greenpeace
Date:
Jan 25 2013
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Activists with a big fake polar bear have occupied a Shell service station in the Swiss resort of Davos to protest Royal Dutch Shell PLC's oil drilling in the Arctic. About 25 activists from around Europe chained gas pumps together Friday at the station near where the World Economic Forum was being held and hung a banner on the roof reading "Arctic Oil - Too Risky."
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This artist takes the spirit of protest from the streets to the gallery
Practitioner:
Mundano
Date:
Jul 24 2018
"Brazilian artist Mundano is used to spending his time on the road and in the streets, making art as an act of protest. Known for leaving his colorful works of graffiti on walls around the world, Mundano is especially dedicated to issues of environmental and social justice and spotlighting the overlooked work of Brazil’s trash collectors through his Pimp My Carroça campaign.
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Detox Levis - Vertical Catwalk
Practitioner:
Greenpeace
Date:
Dec 6 2012
Detox Levi's: 6th December: Greenpeace activists staged a vertical catwalk action in front of the levi's store in the biggest mall in Copenhagen, Denmark. Greenpeace calls Levi's to engage fully in the process of ending the use and release of hazardous chemicals in connection with the production of their clothing.
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Chinese Air Quality Images Exhibition: The Breath of China
Practitioner:
Siyuefeng Photography Studio
Date:
Sep 19 2014
The Breath of China is a thematic photo exhibition of thousands of air-quality images taken by 44 photographers in 34 Chinese capital cities. The exhibition was displayed on the 14th Pingyao International Photography Festival (PIPF) in Shanxi Province, from September 19th to 27th, 2014.
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Earth Hour is tonight
Practitioner:
I Fucking Love Science
Date:
Mar 28 2015
Objective: Earth hour represents the knowledge that we must all work together to combat climate change and protect our planet. Method: At 8:30pm, local time, turn off all the lights in your home. Expectations: 7 thousand cities across 162 countries are set to participate. Huge landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower will be turning out their lights.
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Climate activists swarm Oregon Capitol to support cap-and-trade bill
Practitioner:
Climate Activists
Date:
Feb 11 2020
Hundreds of demonstrators raise their voices and signs to urge legislators to act on greenhouse gas emissions. Activists seeking to clean Oregon's environment by reducing greenhouse gas emissions turned out by the hundreds at Capitol Tuesday, Feb. 11, pushing legislators to move ahead with a cap-and-trade policy.
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Thus.
Practitioner:
nilankur
Date:
Mar 1 2014
This is an attempt to foster critical thinking and create social capital. www.thuscritique.wordpress.com
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Luxury Ruins Tour Project
Practitioner:
Basurama
Date:
Apr 10 2015
The environment is one political topic that has become more significant in countries all around the world. One current example of this can be seen in Madrid with the Madrid Central program, introduced in an effort to lower carbon emissions in the city. With the new right winged candidate expected to be elected as the new president of the region, he plans to get rid of the program entirely.
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Mercury Poisoning by Unilever in Kodaikanal
Practitioner:
Jhatkaa
Date:
Jul 30 2015
Global corporation Unilever dumped toxic and contaminated waste behind its thermometer factory located in Kodaikanal, a city in the South Indian state Tamil Nadu. In 2001, once word spread about this breach in environmental precautions, Unilever closed its factory. However, it is yet to adequately compensate its workers, many of whom suffered mercury poisoning. The corporation has also yet to clean up its mess and remediate the land.
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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
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Protesters stop repair work on Enbridge’s Line 9
Practitioner:
Enbridge Protestors
Date:
Dec 3 2013
By: Joel Eastwood Staff Reporter, Graham Slaughter
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Crows That Pick Up Trash
Practitioner:
Crows
Date:
Aug 20 2018
Oh, to be a crow. Maligned as scavengers that torment their dead brethren. Portrayed as aerial killers in the 1963 Alfred Hitchcock classic, “The Birds.” In France, though, the wily crow is getting a makeover. Puy du Fou, a historical theme park in the Loire region about four hours from Paris, has trained six crows to pick up cigarette butts and bits of trash and dump them in a box. Mon Dieu! Are the pigeons of Paris next?
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Greenpeace Action at F1 Grand Prix in Belgium
Practitioner:
Greenpeace
Date:
Aug 25 2013
Greenpeace Action at F1 Grand Prix in Belgium By Marc van Gurp
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Reverse Graffiti
Practitioner:
Paul 'Moose' Curtis
Date:
Nov 29 2008
Reverse graffiti is form of street art that involves carving into the dirt and dust that surrounds us. Artists subtract from a surface in order to create a negative image within the positive, often quite dark layer of grime.
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A Homeless Polar Bear In London
Practitioner:
greenpeace - savethearctic.org along with Radiohead and Jude Law
Date:
Feb 12 2012
With Radiohead's "Everything In Its Right Place" as the soundscape, Jude Law narrates in this powerfully sad little video clip created in collaboration with Greenpeace. Please visit savethearctic.org and sign the petition.
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