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Green Patriot Launches in Cleveland

Ed Morris

Categories: Events

Jul 9, 2008 03:20 pm 2 Comments

A sneak preview of Green Patriot Posters has been launched in Cleveland with designs by former AIGA president and current Pentagram partner Michael Bierut.

The idea behind Green Patriot Posters is to create posters that inspire positive action for sustainability in the same spirit as the famous WWII posters like Rosie the Riveter.  It is amazing when you look back how many posters from that area encouraged conservation.  The vision of conservation was strong and positive.  Action was both individual and collective.   See examples here.

To face the ecological crisis posed by global climate change today a similar mobilization of America is required.

To help meet this challenge The Canary Project and its partners are running a campaign to commission poster designs from leading firms and designers and also to solicit other designs through a national competition.

The national competition will start in late September or early October (stay tuned for that official announcement).  Designs by Michael Bierut for 60 busses in Cleveland are the first step.  The Cleveland busses were made possible by support from The George Gund Foundation, Timberland and our friends here at Earthkeepers Powered by Changents.  Additional partners were The Cleveland Museum of Natural History (where Susannah currently has a show) and Freedom Press, an environmental publisher that has advanced the concept of green patriotism.  You can see these designs and more photos herehere (other photos and more information to come).



Other designs to follow by Todd St. John (Hunter Gatherer), Vllg, Kevin Lyons, The Design Office, Rob Giampietro, and many more.



Read more about it on the website for the project: 

www.greenpatriotposters.org

 

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Adam MacIsaac
July 10, 2008 - 8:09am
Hello Susannah and Ed, I just wanted to invite you to submit a video to a United Nations Development Programme Youth Climate Change Project that I am currently working on. The video can touch on any of the key messages from the United Nations Human Development Report 2007/2008. The seven Key Messages are: 1. Climate Change - its effect on People: We've had the UN scientists' report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); we've had the report on its economic impact in the Stern Report. This Human Development Report is about people and how we are all affected by climate change. 2. The poor suffer most from Climate Change - and will suffer more: Given that 2.6 billion live in poverty, unable to meet their basic needs, these people are likely to be the first to face the impacts of dangerous climate change and suffer human development reversals. The Report tells that the poor are already suffering, and will suffer more, as a result of climate change. But we will all suffer later. In fact, some rich countries are already seeing the impacts of climate change and are dealing with its consequences. If we do not avoid dangerous climate change, the consequences will be more severe and widespread. 3. Urgency: The Report argues that climate change needs urgent action: today we are living with what we did yesterday; tomorrow we will all live with what we do today. We need to take action now. 4. Climate change - a serious threat to our ability to meet the MDGs: - we depend on our world's eco- systems for water, for agriculture, for our industries, our livelihoods and many other aspects of our life - climate change poses a serious threat to our ability to meet the eight Millennium Development Goals especially as it is the poor who are already seeing its impacts. 5. Climate change - an immense threat to Human Rights: The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights talks of the inalienable rights of the human family to "freedom, justice and peace". Climate change is an immense threat to those rights. Yet it is also a reminder that we are a single, interdependent human family sharing a common home on Planet Earth. The UN has a key role in the discussion, and the action, on climate change to protect human rights. 6. Both Mitigation and Adaptation needed: Mitigation means taking action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to avoid more climate change. It is about transforming the way that countries produce and use energy and changing industry and activities to reduce or eliminate emissions. Adaptation is the way people respond to new or changed conditions in climate, such as more droughts, flooding or severe storms. It means adapting our current and future lifestyles, towns, cities, infrastructure - everything! - to take account of climate change. The report states that both actions need to be taken to fight climate change and the threats it poses to humanity. 7. UN is well-placed to give Leadership: Climate change is exactly the kind of global challenge that the UN was set up to address. The Secretary-General has made it his personal priority to work with Member States to ensure that the United Nations takes effective leadership in the fight against climate change. Thank you for creating such amazing media, Adam MacIsaac
CanaryProject
July 10, 2008 - 9:09am
This is great. What is the deadline? Thank you so much for asking us.
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