Close to 900 million people in the world lack safe-drinking water, live in poverty- in slum areas, have no access to sanitation…Earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, erosions, rising sea-level, deforestation / forest-fires…environmental degradation and global warming!?!

- Earth Day 2010 Celebration | Sustainable Creativity: Celebrating Mother Nature

- World Environment Day 2006 Celebration | ECO-ARTS Project

- Online World Environment Day [WED] Awareness Campaign (Art4Development.Net for E-Community Participants and further resources)

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- Winds of Change is an illustrated board game that is designed to help players learn about the risks of global warming as well as the complex connections of climate change in a playful, relaxed way. Source: European Climate Forum

- Launched on Earth Day (April 22) 2006, Xeko is a trading card game designed to teach children and adults about ecology and endangered species. Source: Xeko

- It's for Life 3 - South Africa public education TV programme - a "reality show" - aims to demonstrate how life skills and training can open doors and change lives. Produced by South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) Education, "It's for Life 3" follows 3 individuals as they go through a process to realise their life goals. The series uses "edutainment" as an approach to inspire viewers to change their own circumstances, such as by adjusting conditions impacting economic or environmental well-being. Source: SABC

- Survival International, which helps tribal peoples protect their land, created a satirical cartoon book that skewers the development community. Source:Survival International

- An article about Vatavaran, a festival of environmental and wildlife films in India by Frederick Noronha: Any Colour is Fine, Provided It Has a Shade of Green, to communicate about, and advocate increased attention to, environmental, wildlife, and natural resources management issues in India.

- For environmental facts visit Green Networld and/ or WorldWatch Institute

- Pride Campaign to Protect the Endangered Cockatoo - Palawan, Philippines. As part of the campaign, a colourful 6-foot cockatoo mascot traversed the island of Palawan delivering entertaining messages of conservation. A symbol for environmental protection and regional pride, the mascot visited classrooms, was featured on billboards, modeled in fashions shows, starred in puppet theatres, and was publicised on posters, stickers and buttons. Source: Rare Conservation

- Save with Greywater Cartoon by Paul Ökrös - This 1minute cartoon - offered in 15 languages - uses colourful graphics to demonstrate the benefits of using greywater for toilet flushing. Source: Communication Initiative

- Zero Evictions Campaign aims at strengthening the commitment, proposals and struggle of citizens, associations of inhabitants, urban social movements, local authorities, non-government organisations (NGOs), and progressive governments to act, mobilise international solidarity and to strengthen networks, starting from the inhabitants directly concerned, in order to support housing rights "without frontiers."

- The Bottleboy Dakar project initiated by Amadou Sow, an artist from Senegal who currently resides in Vienna, Austria encourages a selected group of artists to recycle plastic. Source: Power of Culture

- Be, Live, Buy Different - Campaing in the USA to make a difference in consumption and educate on water usage, global warming, and more. Includes original raps and songs created by youth. A joint initiative of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Center for a New American Dream. Source: Be, Live, Buy Different

- Water Alert! an interactive online game developed by UNICEF's Voices of Youth (VOY).

- EnterChange is an exciting online exhibit exploring performance and nature, put together by the British independent curator and artist Wallace Heim for greenmuseum.org, and online museum of environmental art. The exhibit brings together more than a dozen works by artists and artists groups from Europe and North America.

- Advocacy-based film, book, and internet project aims to explore issues of environmental conservation in Canada's arctic region. Source: Being Caribou

- A video produced by the European Public Health Alliance Environment Network (EEN) to involve children in policy making and allow young people to speak out about the environments that are failing them.Source: EEN

- Creative Projects (Radio soap operas) for environmental education. Source: RARE

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