#environmentalcommunication

[skyecoaiart]

Join us on a captivating journey through "Don't Even Think About It" by George Marshall, where we dissect the intricacies of climate change communication through enlightening case studies. 🌱

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[noaasanctuaries]

Thinking about a career in ocean science communication? Check out our career profile on Rachel Plunkett to learn more about her daily job duties and some tips to diversity your skillset.

"Our team takes the incredible work being done throughout the National Marine Sanctuary System and puts it out there for the public, stakeholders, and policymakers to see. We get to tell the stories of the people who protect these captivating underwater places..." --Rachel Plunkett, Writer/Editor for NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries

Learn more: https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/news/mar22/women-in-ocean-careers/profiles.html

(Image description: a headshot of Rachel next to a photo of her scuba diving. Photos courtesy of Rachel Plunkett)

[saafsaans]

VAN MOHATSAV PLANTATION WEEK IN REMEMBRANCE OF ALL LOVED ONES LOST TO COVID. On the occasion of Van Mohatsav, SaafSaans is contributing to plantation drive held by Greater Kailash-2 Welfare Association: DATE: 11TH JULY 2021 TIME: 4PM VENUE: W-BLOCK PARK, GK2, NEW DELHI-110048 THEME: WHITE T-SHIRT Mrs Meenakshi Lekhi, Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs and Culture has consented to join GKIIWA and residents of GK-2. Mr Subhash Bhadana Chairman SDMC South Zone along with DC SDMC Ms Sonal Swaroop would also grace the occasion. ALL SAAFSAANS PARTICIPANTS are requested to participate with their family members following Covid appropriate behaviour and wear the color WHITE to belong to the saafsaans group. This is an opportunity to all SaafSaans community members to participate in an amazing event where we all meet to plant our lifesavers. This is the way to Breathe #saafsaans! Thanks Akshyae Singh 7042162264 #saafsaans #saafsaansaffiliated #planttrees #plantation #reuse #drive #environmentalcommunity #planet #saveenvironment #covid_19 #instagood #savethefuture #vanmohatsav #vanmohatsavweek #vanmohatsav2021 (at Gk-2) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRJvS-3DqV5/?utm_medium=tumblr

[cassidyjeanmc]

I am trying to find a way to use my photography & videography of the lakes and the land to inspire environmental stewardship. So, I have decided to use this blog to collect and share my inspiration, thoughts & process, starting with this video that I love so dearly, and am forever inspired by. 

[karminakardash]

ENVIRONMENT PRESERVATION LEADS TO MISCHIEF?

               When we were still young, most of us are being told to take care of our environment— specifically the plants and trees around us. We are being told that cutting of trees without proper process is illegal, and will cause us harm in the future. But what if the plants and the trees that we are trying to preserve and take care are the ones that causes us mischief?

               I spent my 15 years living here in Saint Michael’s Village in Ma-a, Davao City. Our house is just beside the road that connects Ma-a to San Rafael, Marfori Heights and to downtown area of the city. And for that 15 years of living here, I don’t see any environmental issues that would really affect the people here aside from that plants in the middle of the road that causes number of accidents since then.

The plants in the isle have caused number of incident since then that I lost count and I can’t remember when it happened. Whenever you try to cross the road to the other side, you won’t be able to see the cars that are coming along from the right side since the plant is too big. I remember just two months ago, it was dinner time when I heard commotions outside, and few minutes later an ambulance came. According to the witnesses outside, a kid aged 8 year old crossed to the other side of the road and didn’t saw a car coming. The kid only got minor injuries but the fact that you don’t get to see if a car is coming when you cross to the other side of the road is really alarming.

               I have also witnessed number of accidents from the previous years too. I was on my way back home from the store at around 7pm when a motorcycled took a U-turn and didn’t saw a Taxi was coming. The motorcycle crashed over the Taxi and the driver of the motorcycle got injuries. It was also one Saturday morning when I was busy hanging my laundry outside, a black car took a U-turn and didn’t saw a tricycle was coming with passengers on it, they collided and the bumper and side mirror of the black car got broken, while the passenger of the tricycles got small wounds.

               Last month, I waited almost every morning for the man in charge of trimming down the plants in the isle, and fortunately, I was able to catch him one Monday morning last June. I told him about my concern that the plants are growing too big that it makes it hard for the people to see if a car is coming when they cross to the other side of the street. The man told me that his obligation is only to trim down the plants because they are not allowed to cut it down fully. Though the plants are trimmed much better now, but what if it grows back again to being big and cause another accidents?

My point here is that, how ironic it is when we only want to protect and preserve our environment for our own good, and what we get in return is trouble and mischief?

[pororograysweg-blog]

             Drip... drip... drip...silence. Sounds tragic, doesn't it? This is the harsh reality of the water condition in our community, Purok 9 New Loon Mintal, Tugbok District, Davao City. Instead of water gushing out from the faucets, it seems to be dripping most of the time and it became a huge problem for the entire neighborhood. Drip, drip, drip, ordinary boring drips.

             According to an oration piece entitled "The Jologs Speaks: Save Water for all Generations", water takes prominence in God's Creation as well as a gift that allows life to flow, to gush out so that humanity will genuinely live fully. As I based my reflection to on that piece, I believe that water must be accessible to all and that there should be no limitation. But what happened to us? How come that there is already a limit in consuming water? Why do residents need to store water in big containers?

             This is mainly because the water supply from the reservoir of the source, which is a private association not the Davao City Water District Company, cannot accomodate all the consumers' demands at the same time in the said area. There has to be a time schedule for the water supply to reach each household and that is why the residents need to prepare large pails and basins to fetch water from the pipe and store it into the containers during designated time schedule.

              As for our schedule, the water supply will start at 9am until 1pm and to have a bigger storage for water, my father made a "water tub" for it and he also bought a water pump with a preesure tank to easily generate the flow of water.

              ��Since this is the everday condition of the water consumption in our community, there are instances in which the residents will experience having no water at all due to the malfunctioning of the water supply from the source or there is the unavailability of electricity. However, the pay for the rates will still be the same.

  This kind of situation has given a negative impact on the barangay officials since this concern should be their top priority and it is their responsibility as well to fix problems within the community. Unfortunately, they were not able to take any action regarding about this matter. Because of this, people living in this area tend to struggle everyday just to fetch and store water for their daily necessities.  

      The possible solution which may help the community in solving this problem is that barangay officials should do the task that is expected from them. They should cooperate and be in talks with the private association involved. They must discuss about what are the possible alternatives  that can benefit us as well as to make the situation better.

[ethanestessart-blog]

Fun to be back on @stanford campus today talking to the next generation about environmental communication and art. Visited my favorite #sculpture "Stone River" by Andy Goldsworthy @cantorarts constructed from buildings destroyed in the 1906 earthquake. He is playing with notions of geologic time and the impermanence of human civilization... At least that's what I see! #environmentalcommunication #andygoldsworthy #publicart #happyplace (at Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University)

[acrystalvision]

Last exam today

Let’s do this.

[sofarthings]

Environmental Communication: Projection

We tried to project different images from our spatial design unit project on Exhibition Design. We created a rough model of the Well Gallery, our designated space for the project but kept it detached so that we could project the images on different areas/walls.

We tried different things, like zooming in or zooming out on the laptop that we projected from. We also tried taking pictures from different angles and height.

I think that the most interesting image formed here is the with the black and white pattern. However at different circumstances different things can work. 

[abbyg-envirocomm]

No Farms, Plenty of Food??

"Eating Alabama" is a documentary by Andrew Beck Grace. He and his wife return to his hometown of Alabama, where they live a year eating only foods produced by Alabamian farmers. They are joined in their ventures by other similarly-minded young couples. They are surprised to learn how few Alabamian farmers remain, finding that most of them had left for other professions, either by choice or by force. So if most Alabamians are able to fill up on food produced in factories on the other side of the country, do local farms really matter? Yes, but how do we convince skeptics of this in a time when the "No Farms, No Food" bumper stickers don't hold much truth anymore?

For more information on "Eating Alabama," click here

[sofarthings]

Environmental Communication: Apple Market, Covent Garden

In the second half of the day we visited the apple market and strolled around the permanent shops. After which we were told to pick one and decide on how you could alter the visual merchandising to make it look better.

For the store that I chose, it did not seem up to date with it's trend. It was window display you would expect to see a decade before. The only way to make it better by using the same objects was to align them and give them a more cleaner look. 

This was my sketch for enhancing it's display.

[sofarthings]

Environmental Communication: Carnaby Street

Our visit was disrupted by the constructions going on at Kingsly Court and therefore Regner modified the exercise a bit and moved it to Carnaby Street. 

We were asked to draw the street view of the street and keep moving until we had reached a point he had marked. The differences in our drawings at the end of it were mainly the scale. Some were more detailed than the others. Regner discussed how important it is to have a stark clean line. And not a line that "starts and disappears ad then reappears out of no where again' I think a lot of us unconsciously do that. Especially when you are standing on a street in an uncomfortable position and environment. He expressed that a stark and focussed lines would really make our drawings "pop".

He also talked about the emphasis of having one bold line that signifies the street as its a simple trick to that gives the drawing more definition.

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In the next part of activity we were asked to record one store front and observe it carefully... These were my findings:

Ben Sherman is a menswear lifestyle brand. The entire place is very subtle and subdued. There are shades of brown with black and white. In a market that's filled with attracting attention you realize that Ben Sherman plays it very low. The fact that it's logo is left aligned says the same. And that's where it's beauty lies. It attracts a particular type of customers, who share this subtle taste.

After looking at the picture that I clicked on site, I've finally realized what I associate the look of this place to. It reminds me of an old theatre/cinema. Especially the way the typography is and not only the logo but the entire sign itself with the white background. 

Even the chalkboard; is reminiscent of the the way the theatres used the boards to display the show timings in the bygone years.

This further explains how the attire is displayed in the store window. You would ideally expect a clothing brand to have clear windows as large as possible to clearly showcase their products to lure as many customers. But Ben Sherman is one of its kind and two third of it's windows have a textured glass on it. So basically they use only one third of their window space to display clothing items. 

I think the charm of it's windows and the entire shop is how understated it is. In a very downplayed manner it reminds you of the old times and reflects that fashion is not about ever changing styles but about being true to yourself.

[sofarthings]

Science Museum 3D printing exhibition

The 3D Printing exhibition at the science museum is situated at the far most end on the ground floor. While walking towards it you anticipate a big space with 3D objects hanging all around. However, upon arrival, you realize, in a conner is a little booth space set up especially for the exhibition. Disappoint? a wee bit.

It is mainly categorised in four parts: try, print, heal and perfect it. Each of them talk about how 3D printing is being used in the following categories and shows the best examples/objects from that sector. The entire purpose of the exhibition is to educate and inform the users about the future super power that is already found so many uses in such distinct industries. You would expect 3D printing to be used by a designer/architect or even an engineer. But it also has found considerable uses in medical fields. This way it doesn't only inform the children but adults alike.

Since the science museum is frequented by a lot of children, especially from school trips, you see how they are a little hesitant to read the information on the little boards but are keen on reading the information on touch screens. As they continue to favour the information on the tablets, it causes a problem since a lot of equally important information is missed out.

Once you are in that space, you forget about how little it is and start to enjoy the bright, almost fluorescent coloured objects on a stark white background. By using such vibrant colours, I think they try to break the technicality and mechanisms of a 3D Printer and give it a more friendly/approachable feel. Making complex, simple.

What I really liked at the exhibit was the white platforms were created not only to showcase work but also divided the exhibit into different parts and gave the entire exhibition a path. (which without them, would have made a straight boring path)

The path is highlighted with the red arrow

Also, by placing objects on the front end of these platforms, they allowed viewers to have a 360 degree view of the objects.