The talented infographic artist Guillermo Munro is creating these posters to raise awareness on animals the most affected by human development and ignorance. In his own words he is ‘going guerilla on environmental graphics, so making them for free to the world’. You can see the first one highlighting the red panda here, and be sure to visit his [...]
Here is the second in a series I hope never ends – if only due to survival of the species. The talented infographic artist Guillermo Munro is creating these posters to raise awareness on animals the most affected by human development and ignorance. In his own words he is ‘going guerilla on environmental graphics, so making them for [...]
I love this bike rack. Thanks to its funky design you could put it anywhere and watch it give the place or neighbourhood an instant boost. If people have a safe place to leave their bicycles, they will start using them and leaving the car at home. Asides from the eco factor, it just makes [...]
An ex-colleague of mine has come up with a brilliant new super-hero based on, I’m guessing, the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year. Currently in Spain freelancing, Danesh Mohiuddin, an illustrator and graphic artist entered a competition by Marvel Comics to create a superhero character. Danesh’s character is Spill, an [...]
Illegal trade in wildlife products like ivory and rhino horn must be treated as a serious crime in order to end the devastating poaching of protected species, the head of UN wildlife trade regulator CITES said last week. “This is serious crime, and you need serious resources and serious penalties” to address it, said CITES [...]
South African authorities have been rounding up thousands of escaped crocodiles since Friday after floods gave them an escape route from a crocodile farm. Authorities attempted to reassure the public everything was under control. “A large number” of 15,000 reptiles at the Rakwena Crocodile Farm in the far north of the country had escaped last Sunday [...]
Brazil will undertake the massive task of cataloging the trees of the Amazon, in an effort to better monitor and protect the world’s largest tropical forest, the environment ministry announced Friday. The planned tree census, set to take four years, “will allow us to have a broad panorama of the quality and the conditions in [...]
Recycling entrepreneur Tom Szaky is stubbing out the world’s cigarette problem — one butt at a time. The 30-year-old who dropped out of Princeton University to start his innovative company TerraCycle in Trenton, New Jersey, says there’s no such thing as trash, even when you’re talking about the contents of ashtrays. In a program started [...]
