The Environment – under our care
The UN has released this short animated film. The narrator is Sir David Attenborough and it highlights the role forests can play in national development, a green economy and climate change. It also reviews the current situation and some transformative solutions.
If you watch this on YouTube, the FAO link under the video no longer works, but you can explore more at the FAO from forestry topics at the FAO.
The 5th of June is World Environmental Day. The theme for this year is ‘To Reconnect With Nature’. Here volunteers plan to put this into practice:
Olonde Omondi has taken up his wicked pens to address the environment, deforestation, poaching, pollution and recycling. If you are an editor and would like a higher quality copy of an image, please contact us via the contact page. To commission new work contact smudgetrial2@yahoo.com.
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SAIH – The Norwegian Students’ and Academics’ International Assistance Fund are at it again at rustyradiator.com 🙂
In their video, did you recognize any familiar stereotypes about how the African continent tends to be portrayed, and the image of the “white hero” and the “exotic other”?
Hunger and poverty is ugly, and it calls for action. However, they argue, that we need to create engagement built on knowledge, not stereotypes. We need to change the way fundraising campaigns are communicating issues of poverty and development. This is why they are awarding creative fundraising campaigns with the Golden Radiator Award, and stereotypical campaigns with the Rusty Radiator Award. An international jury has nominated seven videos, and the winners are chosen through an internet poll. What are you waiting for? Go and vote now.
Not sure how to vote? Read a little Binyavanga Wainaina first to get you in the mood.
Olonde Omondi offers 4 more images with a hard-hitting environmental theme. Olonde Omondi has a Diploma in Graphic Design and enjoys expressing himself in a variety of styles all based on realistic interpretation of our world. Major areas of interest include cartoons and caricature, graphic art and illustration as well as painting. Art history and poetry also play substantial roles in his art.
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