Environmental Awareness
Featured Work
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Winds Of Change by rubyred
Alternative Thinking / It is what it is, we need to act now to save the future for our kids. You may also like: /
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Invasion by transcentral
A relentless invasion of the steel men.
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"WHY" by madman4
Now do not get me wrong I am not a “Tree Hugger” but this is sad,6 months ago this was a beautiful swamp ,I have photo’s I have taken there ,Deer,squirrel,rabbits,hawks,god knows what other wildlife were abundant here,this is a small shot of the land that was cut, I was saddened deeply when i rode down this road today, I have not been in this area in about 10 months ,and was expecting to get some shot’s of this area and this is what I saw,Lumber Companies need to leave the wetlands alone,I will step down off of my soapbox now.
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Rape_02 by Michael J
Driving down a back road that I had not traveled in awhile, I sadly came across this sight. This used to be all natural woodland, and no matter how much I try, I cannot replace the green. . .
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Dry Lake Boga moon shot by Mark Malinowski
This is a photo from Lake Boga (Victoria, AU)... It’s about 1/2 the size of what it used to be. We went out about 1km out without any water. For AU people, Please conserve water whilst it’s still there…
Recent Work
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Industrial Sunrise by tjevans
Artwork completed in 2008 The world has most dramatically changed over the last two centuries. The Industrial Revolution rose sharply and suddenly despite the millions upon millions of years in which the Earth has seemed to exist. Many positive innovations and inventions have come so very quickly. With the Industrial Sunrise though, it seems impossible to ignore how the natural Earth has become damaged by the technological progress of humanity too.
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Drop In The Bucket by Julie Marks
I spent time looking at photos I took when I traveled to Africa many years ago. I was fascinated by the children, the warriors, the adults that looked weary aging before their time and of course the spectacular wildlife. I posted three photos, Harmony in the Serengeti, Can I have a Bite, and a baby hippo and his mother. Conditions around the world have worsened over the decades resulting in the domestic and global crisis we see today. I remember the many beautiful faces of the children I was fortunate to meet. Those faces haunt me the more I / read and learn about the harsh and life threatening conditions that exist today. / / I hope you are familiar with Trevor Irwin, a member of redbubble / who is a missionary working with the extreme poor in rural and / isolated areas in Africa. Many of these children are forgotten and die each year from intestinal diseases because they have no clean water. / Trevor has a beautiful portfolio of these children and does not receive / a salary for his hard work. His reward is to see children survive, smile, / and have the opportunity to live a full and healthy life. His photographs / have been featured in several groups on redbubble including the group / I host “the healing journey.” If you are not aware of his heroic dedication to his mission, you can do a search (Trevor Irwin) on redbubble and/or e-mail him @Irwin141@msn.com. Over the years, I have donated to several charities / that work hard to improve the unbearable conditions / and heartbreaking stories that African children and / their families endure every day. / Many of the children have lost their parents to disease and / without help are unable to survive without clean water and / the means to grow food to sustain their lives. / Trevor and many organizations raise funds to empower these / people by providing them with tools and machinery. Looking / at the poignant photographs of these beautiful children / does not always reveal the unbearable and tragic hardships / they face everyday. I discovered an organization, “Drop in the Bucket” and imagined if / everyone would donate one drop or several buckets that would / make a difference. It is not how much you donate, but the power / in numbers that add up to save lives. My trip to Africa was many years ago / and I recently found albums of my photographs that moved / me to tears as I thought about the courage, spirit and pain / of a crisis that is often unseen in these isolated areas. / This is one picture in a series of several that / tell the story in a way words cannot describe. What if this / little boy did not have his mother to comfort him? Unfortunately / many children have lost their parents and siblings live together / trying to survive and take care of each other. Despite all the pain, / the commitment and devotion to family is the most important / value they possess. We can learn a lot from these people, especially / their devotion to their families when survival and disease is the brutal / reality they have to confront everyday. / It is very impressive how important family attachments are to / these children. Without the foundation of family, the hope and / spirit for survival could not exist. These strong values are what / is often missing in Western culture. In our world children / often face the fragmentation / of the nuclear unit, the lack of extended families / and the crisis of divorce. Ties to family values have been replaced by / a strong dependence on peer relationships. How deeply attached our / children are to the family unit depends on the stability of the parents. / Without extended families that care for children, there is a lot of / pressure on the nuclear unit. Most of the children I have seen / in my clinical practice over the years have experienced / at least one divorce reinforcing their mistrust of adults and lack of respect for their guidance as they view their parents unstable / and fragile relationships. Often the parents can not take care of / themselves or each other and are ill equipped to raise / children, the most difficult, challenging and rewarding job for / those who are prepared to raise healthy children. Many / children today are faced with the trauma of divorce and loss of / sibling attachment and extended families. They often / lack the important basic attachment to their families including / loyalty and respect for senior members. / It is common for children to see grandparents placed in nursing / homes or assisted living when families can still care for them in the / comfort of their home. Parents are deeply respected in many cultures. Necessary family love and support can extend their parent’s life. / Seniors who nurtured their children are often abandoned without / the regard and loving commitment they received as children. Many cultures revere their elders and would never think of abandoning / them when senior members need care as they age and lose the / independence they once had. Before Hillary Clinton / said “it takes a village” to raise children, it was the brilliant anthropologist Margaret Mead that studied primitive cultures and observed the results of children growing up with a loving / network of adults that provide the stability and security for / a healthy transition into adult life. Ideally, the devotion and / loyalty they felt as children will be passed on / to their children as important life sustaining and healthy values. After viewing the photographs I took many years ago, / I thought no matter how many “drops” we can give, they add up / and we can reduce the deaths of many children that / can survive and look forward to their future. For those who do not / have “drops of water” to give in terms of donations, / alerting others to the grim reality of rural and / isolated villages in Africa is also very important. Trevor has / repeatedly said, “We can make a difference.” / Drop in the Bucket is an all-volunteer organization that / was formed in the summer of 2006 by a group of entertainment industry professionals who decided it was time / to give something back and take the initiative to help contribute / to the health and well being of our fellow man. / “Our mantra is, “individuals can make a difference.” When we began, / none of us had ever traveled to Africa and we knew nothing about drill bits, well pumps or hydro-geological ground surveys. Armed with nothing more than laptop computers and the desire to make a difference, we started with Internet searches and soon / began forming an invaluable network of talented and / motivated people from around the globe. Our business plan involves getting as much money as possible into programs on the ground, as quickly possible. We are rigid with our bookkeeping and personally oversee how every penny is spent. We have no company overhead, minimal operating costs and no one takes a salary. We are so dedicated to donor financial scrutiny that we will provide anyone who asks with a copy of our financial records and if someone donates the funds to pay for a well, we will place the name of their choice on that well. In the first two years we installed over 25 water wells and a number of sanitation systems at schools in Uganda, Mozambique and Tanzania. With your generous support we can continue to expand our reach. By providing these children with clean, accessible water, we are helping them secure the opportunities that we all deserve for a bright, healthy and prosperous future.” / To learn more about this wonderful organization, please paste / this link into your browser or google drop in the bucket. http://www.dropinthebucket.org/Welcome.html / Please view this in the larger format.
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Big Old Tree Stump...Eucalyptus Tree Tasmania by cradlemountain
This is an endangered species. / Keep it in the ground as it holds carbon and is more global friendly than dinging the stump out. / This tree stump had lived out a full life but the relatives of this tree around the local area are disappearing. The locals told me it was approximately 600/800years old and may be the second tallest tree in the world. This stump is, 22 armful around, hollow in the middle and over 1 meter high. It is the only old tree left that my grandson can see to check out the sizes they would one day become if left to grow in a natural state. When I was his age they were in abundance if the natural forests in Australia everywhere.
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Calm before the firestorm by Travis Easton
Over the Australia Day weekend I and three buddies sea kayaked around the North end of Wilsons Promontory blissfully unaware that a few short days later this paradise would be burnt to a crisp by Victoria’s recent and devastating bushfires. This fire continues to burn as I write this (20/2/09) and has so far burnt about 30% of the park (basically all the land visible in this picture). If there is no rain soon and the winds turn from there current easterly direction to a strong northerly the entire park could easily go up. This shot was taken on the beautiful and remote Bennison Island in Corner Inlet and offers the perfect vantage point to see what is now gone (view large). The peak on the far left hand side of the frame is called The Cathedral and the fire started there after a lightning strike on the 8/2/09 exactly thirteen days after this shot was taken. The prevailing winds in this area are usually westerlies and these conditions would have resulted in a small localised blaze that would have seen the fire peter out as it hit the nearby ocean. Instead there have been uncommonly sustained easterly winds blowing up to 70km/h spreading the fire straight along the entire length of the Vereker Range (the mountain range on the horizon) and coming north to consume every bit of land between there and the coastline contained in this shot. In 2005 a back burn that reignited burnt 13% of the park, this fire fortunately has thus far avoided these particular areas but if they are re-burnt so soon after this previous fire many of the larger tree species will not have the mojo to regenerate a second time and as there seedlings have not had enough time to mature to the point of producing seed entire species could be lost from large areas. As it is the fire is currently ravaging an area that hasn’t been burnt since the terrible 1951 fires that destroyed 75% of the park. The close succession of fires back then resulted in the permanent loss of all the blue gums in the park. These huge beautiful and majestic trees were once the dominant upper story flora standing over a once open forest floor. The impenetrable tangle that now exists has made my many off track ramblings around the Prom a far more involved pursuit than was once the case. Currently there are 150 ground fire fighters one skycrane and two water bombing helicopters fighting the blaze although ground crews have been forced by the impenetrable scrub to concentrate there efforts to creating and reinforcing current containment lines. Out of interest the footprints on the beach are probably from a Black Wallaby – Wallabia bicolor who despite that huge looking expanse of water has made it to the island across the mud flats at low tide. The small knoll abutting the coast in the center of the frame is called Barry Hill and is in one of the most remote and trackless areas on the promontory. However between 1913 and 1940 this was the location of the Ranger Station at the Prom (it even had its own telegraph line). Now the Prom has easy road access this choice of location seems odd but back then the dominant mode of access was via boat across Corner Inlet from Port Welshpool. If I lived in an ideal landscape photographers world I would have unlimited time to shoot every scene in the ideal light of dawn and dusk but sometimes these criteria are impossible to organize so I do the best I can with the light available in this case late morning. The timing determined by the vagaries of tide (being in a sea kayak) and the fact that camping on the island is not allowed. Despite the less than ideal light I thought the pertinence of current events justified its inclusion. 100% of profits from this shot will go to WRAP Wildlife Rescue and Protection Incorporated which will aid the innumerable animal victims of the recent fires (I’ve put up my margin more than usual because of the donation aspect, basically it’s not worth doing unless there’s a bit of money in it for the charity).
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THINK GREEN LIVE GREEN by yanmos
/ t-shirt version
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It's a clear cut... choice. by Sam Dantone
Cutting them down to mail them back to our McMansions as junkmail… / I hear it all the time from local loggers, “they’ll grow back” / Yes, but when we replant a fast growing single strain to replace them, well, then they are not really growing back are they. The forest here are treated like tree farms. Clear cut, slash and burn, replant, repeat. We may be able to achieve this, but are we doing good? Sam Dantone
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The world is a disease / It needs to get down on its knees / And take a look at itself / Realise the help it needs…
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Lake Peder by cradlemountain
Original painting and photographic print. / This lake was flooded by Tasmanian Hydro-Electric Scheme. Covering up a wonderful paradise, this unique lake that was an inland sea, south of the middle of Tasmania, was flooded and is now under the Gorden River Dam. Not much research was done at Lake Peder apart from photographs taken by a famous photographer Olga ….(can somebody fill me in with his last name?)
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Earth Hour 2009 / Goodnight Mr. Edison... by monocotylidono
Governments around the world, are setting targets to phase out the use of Incandescent light bulbs, in favour of more energy-efficient fluorescent sources of lighting, effectively “sunsetting” one of the most ubiquitous inventions of the 20th century. Thomas Edison created the first commercially viable incandescent light bulb in 1879. Little did he know how much his invention would contribute to the energy crisis that dominates the 21st century!... (This is my first attempt at Digital Art, so I’d love to hear your comments, criticisms, suggestions, etc. I’ve started with a picture of a red lightbulb and used PS CS2 and most of the techniques in this tutorial for the water reflections) .
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Bushfire solution
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Well, almost. It has been a busy time for Flic Manning and I, in terms of work, moving states, parties, learning new things and facing money challenges: but in the big scheme of things nothing is more important than your dreams. Flic and I, tonight at 9:20pm on the 11th Feb 2009, have decided to take the DIESEL LAWS brand beyond the popular presence on the net, and take it to the streets within the next few years. What that means for us is a little bit of light research, explaining to all our current customers our plans and obviously taking the necessary steps to print our designs. At current, ‘Diesel Laws’ has sold over 119 shirts within 6 months of the brand becoming active online. That equates to 1 Shirt sold every 2 days! I would say there is a market! Not only has the amount of sales broken through the seems, we have also received thousands of brilliant comments on our designs with messages of strong support for what we are doing. We look forward to sharing the progress with you over the next couple of months as we set this thing in motion! Please make sure you check out www.diesellaws.com and SUBSCRIBE to be notified about all the pictures and info on setting up the Diesel Laws brand! Woohoo! Let us know that you are keen to take this ride with us! thanks, Flic and Diesel
About This Group
A place for RedBubble artists to host artwork whose concern is focused on
environmental issues such as global warming, pollution, famine, energy
saving, etc
The purpose of this group should be to raise awareness amongst the viewers
and other artist.
So if you feel concerned about mother earth and express this concern in your
artwork, feel free to submit it. Submitted work will be moderated once
weekly.
Submitted work requires moderator approval before being accepted!
Some guidelines:
A simple nature or animal picture is not enough.
A polluted area, dead or dying nature is accepted.
Poems or thoughts about our mother earth’s health are welcome too.
*Keep in mind: *
Your image or written work should lead people to think about the
environmental issues in general. – We want to raise awareness that we all
live on the same planet, that we breathe the same air and that we feel
concerned!
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