This is probably the most thought-provoking 20 minute exposé you’ll ever see. A trailer is below, but be sure to take a look at the full film called 'The Story of Stuff' , its sure to get you thinking and hopefully get you acting.

The Photographers' Gallery is inviting people to submit photographs of plastic bags spotted around London and elsewhere. Reminding us of our ability to consume and dispose, this project provides the public with their own platform for visual expression and is part of the Gallery’s continued remit to encourage further audience participation and highlighting photography’s influence in everyday life.

Numbers don’t lie. But they can be hard to comprehend. This is the paradox that underlies “Running the Numbers,” a new series by photographer Chris Jordan that depicts the sheer mass behind the statistics of our collective consumption—it is a lot easier, for example, to imagine how many grocery bags we use every five seconds when you can see an actual picture of all 60,000.

Made from several hundred photographs digitally stitched together, the images can take months to complete. But in their finished state, the results are jaw-dropping. “If we can more deeply feel the meaning behind numbers like these,” says Jordan, “maybe that will enable us to make more conscious choices about the behaviors that lead to them.”

A useful link  for more information is here HERE

 

This made the Green Bag Project team laugh, take a look at this comic strips by Hi and Lois at Seatle Pi newsite by seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/hi.asp

Check out the FREE RICE website, it’s a fun little sustainable step in the right direction. 

FreeRice is a sister site of the world poverty site, Poverty.com.

FreeRice has two goals:

1. Provide English vocabulary to everyone for free.
2. Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.

This is made possible by the sponsors who advertise on this site.

Whether you are CEO of a large corporation or a street child in a poor country, improving your vocabulary can improve your life. It is a great investment in yourself.

Perhaps even greater is the investment your donated rice makes in hungry human beings, enabling them to function and be productive. Somewhere in the world, a person is eating rice that you helped provide.

Thank you.

Covering narrow policy disputes over such issues as catch limits on fish and permissible levels of ocean pollutants prompted him to think about the long-term health of the seas.

He was further inspired by scientific lectures and papers describing a gradual but profound transformation of the world's oceans, marked by the decline of fish and marine mammals and the proliferation of primitive life forms — algae, bacteria, jellyfish.

Visit the Altered Oceans website for more information