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Thursday, February 11, 2010

Environment 8- Greenpeace


Greenpeace is an organization that wants to bring attention to the environmental destruction in a peaceful, non-violent way (sound familiar?... MLK) to raise the quality and level of environmental debate. They call attention to their concerns via interesting photography, videos, campaigns, and many others.

While browsing through this website, I actually learned a lot. Greenpeace does a good job of informing the public of the dangers and damage of the Earth in an easy and interesting way. They show ways of making a difference using minimum effort. The website describes what is happening, how that negatively affects us and the Earth, and how to change.

All of the pictures were really touching. It puts what we hear into perspective... and I think that's one of the reasons Greenpeace uses pictures and videos so much to demonstrate their beliefs. We all hear of polar bears dying because of the melting ice caps... but to me, it's almost as if it's an imagination, or a story. But when I saw pictures of the big white bears roaming around their melting "homes", I really touched and inspired me.


If these pictures could inspire me from just one look they could inspire others.


How can Greenpeace use their pictures to inspire others to save the planet and animals without effort from the citizens?


My idea: instead of using billboards for business advertisements, why don't evironmental organizations use them to advertise for a better Earth?... it could work.


1 comment:

  1. I think that idea of the group asking questions and explaining what their asking about could be expanded upon.

    You share that you learned a lot while looking through this website, maybe replace that with some of the examples of the information that you learned, so the reader has a greater understanding of what you’re referring to. Also what are they doing to make this interesting? The information given is great over all. Maybe give more information on why these pictures meant something to you. At the end there are some lines with some great ideas that would be interesting to expand upon. you did a great job and i hope this helps!

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