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Regular readers will know by now I am not overly impressed with Greenpeace’s frankly rather tired activism (or at least their countless videos of them hanging off stuff). Well, early in 2011 they have surpassed themselves with this, possible the most boring, not to mention bewildering campaigning video I have ever seen. OK, I know [...]
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MediaStorm is up there with the best in multimedia so you would expect their revamped website to deliver. And it does. The relaunch includes a new piece by Luca Oleniuk on global warming entitled ‘Airsick‘ made with 20,000 photos in Toronto, Canada. It is rather unrelenting (though that might be more to do with it [...]
Filed under: Multi-media | Tagged: climate change, environment, photographers | Leave a Comment »
I’ll start by saying I didn’t really engage very much with the climate change meeting in Copenhagen. As such I am not sure how much it can be labelled as a failure? However, it hasn’t got much applause from the media and NGOs so I am going to work on the assumption that most people [...]
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WITNESS remains one of the stand out organisations working with and empowering people to use video for social activism. It seems only yesterday, but is apparently two years, since they launched their excellent Hub. Here, WITNESS staff and interns nominate the videos from 2009 that made the most impact with them. Included are ‘Choose a [...]
Filed under: Campaigning, Video | Tagged: Asia, Bangladesh, climate change, environment, human rights, NGO, South Asia | Leave a Comment »
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is running two competitions to raise awareness of the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). The competitions, both photographic and video, are themed around ‘Changing Lives’. For contest rules click here. Submission deadline for both comps is 31 October 2009.
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In order to high light the incredibly important and urgent matter of climate change leading up to the Copenhagen summit in December the creatives at the Tck Tck Tck campaign decided to produce a ‘Band Aid’ style ‘celebrity’ video (though if more than 10% of those featured can be called celebrities is questionable). Is this [...]
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Don’t get me wrong, I have a big soft spot for Greenpeace. but is it just me or have they (and other environmental activists for that matter) rather done this to death? Is this visually compelling any more? I am sure that once upon a time hanging a sign from somewhere high-up was rather innovative [...]
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Basically, ‘The Age of Stupid’ is a ninety minute film about climate change and is showing simultaneously across the world tonight. Featuring British action Peter Postlethwaite as a man looking back from a devastated world in 2055 asking why we did not do enough to stop climate change.
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After the energetic and polarised discussion that the recent MSF cinema ad generated on-line I was surprised to come across this Oxfam Ireland ad for their ‘Face It’ campaign that has (to date) attracted little attention.
Filed under: Campaigning, Video | Tagged: Africa, climate change, environment, NGO, representation | Leave a Comment »
Azaaz organized several intiatives around the G8 meeting last week aimed at robust targets to tackle climate change. One of interest was hooking into Japanese PM Taro Aso’s love of manga by placing a full page add in his favourite comic book.
Filed under: Campaigning, Cartoons/Animation | Tagged: Asia, book, climate change, East Asia, environment, Japan | Leave a Comment »
