Massive Wheatpastes by Gaia

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Global Recession.....

HERE: http://www.takepart.com/blog-series/grit/2011/09/27/grit-surviving-global-recession

Jarreth Merz: Filming democracy in Ghana-- TED Talk

HERE: Jarreth Merz: Filming democracy in Ghana | Video on TED.com

Ghana's path to achieving democracy. "Jarreth Merz, a Swiss-Ghanaian filmmaker, went to Ghana in 2008 to film the national elections. What he saw there taught him new lessons about democracy -- and about himself."

Washed Ashore Art Project and Movement

Angela Haseltine Pozzi is the lead artist and director of the Washed Ashore project, which was originally based in Bandon, Oregon. The project is now traveling the county to rise awareness of the mass amounts of waste that consumes our oceans and beaches. She originally went to the ocean to heal after her husband's death, but she came to find the ocean was in the need of real support and healing. She was disgusted by how many people went to see the beautiful ocean and choose to be blind to the horrific amounts of garbage on beaches. The massive amounts of debris is not only ugly and disgusting, it is devastating to animals who get killed, wounded, and suffer from all the effects of plastic, oil, and debris in the ocean. Therefore, Angela decided she had to take action and get an important message across to the public. Her Washed Ashore: plastics, sea life and art project is solely created by waste washed ashore, all found on beaches, into huge insinuations of art. None of her art is from anything purchased, every single inch of every art piece is from debris from our oceans. It is remarkable and devastating to see how much waste there is out there; however, her message is received loud and clear. People need to take action, need to stop littering, help clean up our beaches, to keep our oceans beautiful and our mammals alive and well. Currently the Washed Ashore project is at the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, California. Here are some pictures below of some of the art pieces.  If you want to read more go to their website: 
HERE: http://www.washedashore.org/
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Marine Bio Trip to the Marine Mammal Rehabilitation Center

I had the pleasure to go on a wonderful field to trip to the Marine Mammal Rehabilitation Center today. We could not have been more lucky with our day; clear skies, beautiful scenery, clean beach, and the extremely rare chance and coincidence to help rescue a marine mammal ourselves. We arrived about 30 minutes early so we could play around at the beach before hand, and we just happened to pull up right as a rescue team who were running down to the beach to rescue an injured sea lion. We ended up helping capture the sea lion who had serious wounds to her spine. In great appreciation for our help the hospital actually named the sea lion "Pinewood" after our school. 

         We started the day with 5 different workshops and backgrounds on Marine Mammals and the work that is done in the rehabilitation center to give many mammals a second chance at life. There after we took a behind the scenes tour of the center and got to see: the cages, pools, food, medicine, surgery rooms, ect of all the mammals that go through the center. It was extremely interesting to see how the entire center is completely run off dedicated volunteers and supported by donations. There are over 1,000 volunteers through out the week who keep the center running smoothy, ranging from 14-94 in age. The volunteers do everything; from feeding, surgery, rescue, run tests in the labs, ect. It is an amazing Non-Profit that continues to save many animals every year. I am so grateful to have the chance to see all which goes into such an amazing place and cause. Below are some pictures of the day: rescue, scenery, and the facilities.

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