I think we can all agree that the icebergs are melting. Good! Safer shipping lanes. Easy Gore, I’m kidding. Here’s the latest climate change video from Greenpeace trying to guilt you into buying a hybrid. Warning: it’s got a cold deadly twist. Read more »
The UN Climate Change Conference (look, penguins!) begins Monday in Copenhagen. Greenpeace and TckTckTck have collaborated to greet the leaders of the free world with dour Photoshopped-aged visages of the men (and Germany’s Angela Merkel) from the year 2020. The posters, which all feature the same lame fake scare-quote, have been erected all over the city’s airport. (click gallery) President Change looks so hopeless, Nicolas Sarkozy looks so angry and bloaty, and the UK’s Gordon Brown looks exactly the same, except grayer. Eight leaders in all are tweaked. Who knows? Maybe appealing to these egomaniacs’ vanity will accomplish something. |Images via: Creative Review|
No that’s not a giant heart carved into the forest out of love, it’s the results of illegal timber industry in Santarém, Brazil.
Photo via Greenpeace/Alberto Cesar Araujo
Never ones to disappoint, nimble activists from Greenpeace repelled off Pittsburgh’s West End Bridge earlier today and hung a massive “road sign” style banner warning of “Climate Destruction Ahead.” It’s just one of many protests the environmental group has planned to coincide with the meeting of the G20. Fun fact: G20 member countries represent around 90 per cent of global gross national product and 80 per cent of world trade.
Photo by Greenpeace
Activist-vandals from Greenpeace gained access to the roof of Hewlett Packard headquarters in California and painted the words “Hazardous Products” to protest the electronics juggernaut for abandoning a public promise to reduce the amount of harmful chemicals in their products. Using non-toxic finger paint, the environmental group rolled out the message that’s approximately the “size of two and half basketball courts.”
Photo by Kim White/Greenpeace
Global activist group and rabble-rousing professionals, Greenpeace, are having quite a week. To highlight environmental issues during the G8 Summit, the group has launched attention-getting offensives in Russia, France, Italy, and the United States, including an assault on the sacred stone pillar of democracy itself: Mt. Rushmore. Three protesters draped a banner with President Obama’s image and the words: “America honors leaders not politicians. Stop global warming.” Video of the rock climbing activism below. Read more »
Boomer harangues (ouch)! The militant planet protectors, via ad agency DDB in Paris, would like to let you know-very literally-that your selfish words and actions today will come back and smack you right in the face tomorrow. Click the ads to start the guilt-inducing gallery; whether you’re money hungry or refuse to take public transportation or think recycling is bullshit or applaud the heating of the planet, there’s at least one boomer-ad that’ll hit you. But, the boomerang concept? I…don’t know. Maybe the toy stores of my youth only carried cheap, piece of shit boomerangs, because every time I threw one of them, if it came even half way back to me, I felt lucky. I do recommend that Greenpeace sell these things to raise money. They can put them on the shelf next to their cute nuclear meltdown mutant stuffed animals. |Images: adofdamonth|
Hey Greenpeace! You do-gooders could make some serious good scratch here! OK, first let me get my job out of the way: these are anti-nuclear print ads out of Romania. The translated copy reads: “You and your children can get used to this, but you don’t have to.” And so, we have a four-ear bunny and a two-trunk pachyderm (where’s Blinky, the three-eyed fish?). Message = nuclear energy is a bad choice for both nature and future generations. OK, the ads are too subtle and cutesy, not effective cause ads at all. But! Actual stuffed mutated toys? Which Greenpeace could sell to raise funds? That’s a radioactive idea. In addition to these two, they could offer: the two-headed Gamma Giraffe—he eats from the upper and lower branches at the same time; Isotope Antelope—he glows in the dark; and they could make their own version of Blinky—Fission Fish. Previously: Achingly Beautiful Greenpeace Ads. |Images: IBIA|
Kind of like how the Boston Police overreacted when they the public started noticing LED characters and thought they were bombs, police in D.C. also took no chances yesterday, calling in the bomb squad to disarm what turned out to be an art installation commissioned by Greenpeace that “highlights the shared plight of polar bears and humans in the face of global warming.” Street artist Mark Jenkins, known for his public space hacking sculptures, created a series of of homeless bear statues and installed them around the nation’s capital:
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My first reaction to any and all advertising I see is to take out my big fucking Rambo: First Blood knife and stab it until it’s a bloody pulpy dead mess. But these ads for Greenpeace urging people to sign an online petition to save our seas made me want stab chemical company CEOs and other polluters. The wonderful colored-pencil sculptures of underwater life are by South African artist Jennifer Maestre. Now, just like some of the dimwits at AdsOfTheWorld, a little voice in my head said, “but you don’t sign petitions with colored pencils.” True. But then I stabbed myself in the head—because sometimes, it’s OK to not be so literal. Some others complained that this advertising is a waste of trees. Which is just fucking stupid. Anyway, the ads inspired me to go online and sign. Which probably won’t do a thing to save our seas. So it goes. After the jump, take a gander at two more executions in this gorgeous campaign.
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