1people1planet

Creatively changing the world

[bobbycaputo]

Hong Kong Soup: 1826 (香港湯:1826) | Mandy Barker

Over 1,826 tons of municipal plastic waste goes into landfills every day in Hong Kong. Each image reflects the diverse range of these products by highlighting recovered objects or groups that escaped recycling or landfill. Hong Kong Soup: 1826 depicts marine plastic debris collected from over 30 different beaches in Hong Kong since 2012.

The images directly relate to the traditions, events, nature, and culture of Hong Kong, with the intention of connecting the photos with the area’s people, thereby providing awareness about the crisis of effective waste management. Objects include products from manufacturing, retail, household, medica

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“7 Days of Garbage" by California-based photographer Gregg Segal is an ongoing series which explores consumption and waste production in our daily lives. For the project Segal created portraits of friends, neighbors, and other acquaintances surrounded by the garbage they accumulate in the course of a week in a setting that is part nest, part archeological record. “We’re just cogs in a machine and you’re not culpable really but at the same time you are because you’re not doing anything, you’re not making any effort,” he told Slate, “There are some little steps you can take to lessen the amount of waste you produce.” - See more at: http://www.junk-culture.com/2014/07/thought-provoking-photos-visualize.html#sthash.mJSfmq8J.dpuf

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First atomic bomb test may mark the beginning of the Anthropocene

In a paper published in the journal Quaternary International, members of the Anthropocene Working Group have suggested that the key turning point happened in the mid-20th century. From this point onward, humans did not merely leave traces of their actions, but began to alter the whole Earth system. The changes here, once we add them up, can be staggering. The extraction of a few hundred million years worth of buried carbon, funnelled into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, is a phenomenon of extraordinary scale and speed in Earth’s history. We already have an atmosphere like that of Pliocene times, 3m years ago – and the warmer climate and higher sea levels of that epoch look set to follow.We have doubled the amount of reactive nitrogen at the Earth’s surface – and one might have to go back billions of years to find a similar perturbation. The biosphere is now increasingly influenced by the alien species that we have carried from continent to continent and from ocean to ocean. Such a global reshuffling has never, ever happened before in Earth’s history. We might be creating extraordinary new rock strata, in the form of our megacities. This makeover of our planet was termed the Anthropocene some 15 years ago by the Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist, Paul Crutzen. Since then, geologists have been scrambling to see whether the idea has geological reality and how it might be defined as a new geological epoch.

Slightly disturbing, worthy read:

http://phys.org/news/2015-01-atomic-anthropocene.html#jCp

[nrdc]

Pope Francis just issued a powerful call to action on climate change. More here.

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[karenhurley]

Brilliant advertisement! 

unicef: Bad water kills more children than war.

Advertising Agency: Jung von Matt, Sweden Via

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Tate Modern's Turbine Hall daubed with graffiti by protesters against BP sponsorship: Tate Modern's Turbine Hall daubed with graffiti by protesters against BP sponsorship

[1people1planet]

Kayak activists say #ShellNo! as oil rig departs for Arctic http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/Shell-Arctic-Rig-Kayaktivist-blockade/blog/53232/

[betype]

World Cup sponsor logos redesigned to protest labor abuses in Qatar

[greenpeace]

21 awesome aerial photographs show Earth from another angle - CNN.com

[culturenlifestyle]

Surreal Apocalyptic Photos of Chicago

A mysterious photographer known as Swopes composed these stunning, apocalyptic shots of the city of Chicago enduring destruction and natural catastrophes. Swopes posts a multitude of images of Chicago on her Instagram, which she claims were produced on her iPhone 6. Take a look below as the sky falls on the Windy City and it becomes engulfed by the ocean.

[1people1planet]

Join an amazing roster of artists from across the globe who are using their talents to amplify and motivate the grass roots movement to fight for social justice... http://www.manifestjustice.org/contest

[1people1planet]

Pushing Earth beyond its natural limits - in pictures 

http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/gallery/2015/apr/14/pushing-beyond-earth-limits-natural-world?CMP=twt_gu

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The Land of Giants 

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The art of giving

Piece by Nasimo in Sofia, Bulgaria. A tribute to the popular Bulgarian poet Valeri Petrov who died this year. His poem 'The flying people' is written on the wall. via https://niume.com/pages/post/?postID=19536

[1people1planet]

The art of peace-building

There is still little documentation of how art creates social and personal change. We must develop this language.

[scrapyardsaint]

Solar eclipse. March 20th 2015 as seen from Leicester, UK

Now as a .gif,  because this is Tumblr