rkittleComments Off on Food Lifeline Action Project Reflection
For my groups Action Project, we went to various restaurants in the University District and beyond disseminating information on how they could donate their excess food at the end of the day to an organization called Food Lifeline that would then distribute the food to people in need. Our project was limited by the amount of time that we put… Read more »
WinslowComments Off on Are These Cookies Guilt-Free?
A quick-look at our action project presents mixed results. The issues we chose to direct calls to, the repeal of Net Neutrality and the GOP Tax Plan, are both expected to pass with relative ease despite our group’s opposition. Initially, we set out to help in preventing these two potentially dangerous legislative actions. While we likely won’t succeed in this… Read more »
johnk21Comments Off on The Refugees of Tomorrow and Today
For our action project, my group decided to create a website to help spread awareness of climate refugees. Our site looks at the issue from many different angles, including the environment, law and policy, infrastructure, and social cohesion. We feature original and professional material as we wanted to speak about climate refugees in our own words. A contemplative practices page… Read more »
TovaComments Off on How is a Light Bulb Connected to the Sky?
Above is the cover of my illustrated children’s book, How is a Light Bulb Connected to the Sky. To see interior illustrations, visit https://www.amazon.com/How-Light-Bulb-Connected-Sky/dp/1981178066/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1513130103&sr=8-1&keywords=tova+beck For my final project, I created How is a Light Bulb Connected to the Sky, an illustrated children’s book designed to encourage children to contemplate human impact on the earth system. My target audience is children… Read more »
Food Lifeline volunteers pack and deliver leftover food from restaurants to homeless shelters. My group’s original action project evolved from small-scale to large scale and systemic. After hearing in class about the UW Farm action project, a truly impressive implementation, we realized we could expand the scope of our project from UW campus to the community. We decided to ask… Read more »
MadisonComments Off on Photo Spotlight: Future of Seattle
Having strangers take your photograph is an intimate and often uncomfortable experience. Thus, when Sasha, Kleitia and I were walking through the streets of downtown Seattle clinging to five black and white posters, I was convinced that few people would be willing to participate. Throughout the development of our project, our group continually struggled with the concern that the purpose… Read more »
You’ve likely seen the famous Norman Rockwell quartet from 1943: the freedom series. The work has always affected me—I’m a sucker for realism, how the artist grasps light, the details of fabric fold and skin’s ripple. Note the prominent vein on a knuckle, the crispy glisten of Grandma’s holiday fowl. (Putting aside the obvious lack of racial and socioeconomic diversity—considering… Read more »
A drizzly day came in early December when eight people rose to do something different. “Solar Powered” aimed to generate sweat—perspiration as lubrication for social advocacy. It was a yoga & dance party aimed to empower people in light of dismal climate change facts; we wanted to discuss agency in a positive setting. I worked on the basic logistics of… Read more »
cbacon16Comments Off on Disillusionment: Seeing the Earth as it Is
Creative Project Link I sought to illustrate “Earth as it is”, and the trajectory on which humanity, and industrialized, individualistic societies in particular, has been on to create and perpetuate our current ecological and social condition. It is our prerogative as members of the global North to become aware of how our obsession with material accumulation and our ignorance of… Read more »
Alex, Willa, Simone, John, and I assembled an informative and interactive website for our action project on the topic of climate refugees. The topic seeks to draws awareness to the interdependent nature of our global system. Climatic crises, caused by Western overconsumption, will displace millions of people in historically exploited areas, to flood countries that enabled their displacement. Ultimately, our responsibility to… Read more »
