Save energy.

Be eco-friendly. Compare household products energy efficiency, appliances, electricals to save money.
Check this WEBSITE and reduce your energy bill.

Every kid on the street has a story.

Three ads from Directions Youth Services Centre, the Youth centre for Vancouver’s homeless youth and youth at-risk.
“Many of the homeless youth on our streets have escaped from homes filled with abuse and violence. Directions is a 24 hour resource centre where they can find the support and tools they need to get off the streets for good.”


Advertiser:
Directions Youth Services Centre
Agency:
Rethink, Vancouver Canada

War is over...if you want it.

The Iraq War is over, according to the fake New York Times! A cadre of volunteers has fanned out across New York City to pass out a remarkably good, faux-copy of the Times dated July 4, 2009. They've even set up an entire website with all of the liberal fantasy headlines. Universities to be free! Bike paths to be expanded! Thomas Friedman to resign, praise the Unitarian Jesus! It's not funny like The Onion, but obviously a lot of work went into this.

The papers, which were distributed throughout Manhattan were a project of the group Because We Want It. You can read all of the articles on their dedicated WEBSITE.

Pirates of the Mediterranean sea.

Greenpeace is running a new campaign in the current issue of The Economist and last week’s European Voice, in an effort to name and shame three Fisheries Ministers for their failure to protect the Mediterranen bluefin tuna industry.
From left to right the Pirates of the Mediterranean, the curse of the bluefin tuna industry: Mr. Luca Zaia (Fisheries Minister, Italy), Mr. Michel Barnier (Fisheries Minister, France) and Mrs. Elena Espinosa (Fisheries Minister, Spain).

Greenpeace encourage you to write to the Fisheries Ministers for France, Spain and Italy.

“The bluefin tuna fishery in the Mediterranean is on the verge of collapse. These three ministers were supposed to safeguard its future. Instead, they’ve let the fishing industry plunder an irreplaceable treasure. If they don’t close the fishery immediately, someone ought to make them walk the plank.”

Rubbish.

“This is the rubbish dropped around this bus stop since monday.”

Agency:
Colenso BBDO (Auckland, New Zealand)
Source:
I Believe In Advertising

Animal souvenirs.

“Don’t buy exotic animal souvenirs.”

Advertiser:
WWF
Agency:
LOWE GGK (Warsaw, Poland)

Stop the world record of executions.

“Though the Beijing Olympic committe declared that hosting the Olympics will ‘help the development of human rights in China’,
China still holds the current world record of executions with executing 1.010 people of 1.591 confirmed executions worldwide."

Advertiser:
Amnesty International Hungary
Agency:
DDB, Budapest, Hungary

Modern Slavery.

Illustration by Piece Studio.

Amnesty International: No one will keep us from seeing.

Agency: Air Brussels-Paris, Belgium
Creative Director / Copywriter: Véronique Sels
Art Director: Marine Vincent
Photographer: Chris Van Beek
Graphic Designer: Oliier Gillard

How to carry on the family name.

Gold Lion in Cannes in the category Press.
Anti Female Foeticide is a big social problem in India. Every year 1.1 million unborn baby girls die before they are born.
Ad is from AADHAR. Agency: Contract India, Mumbai.

*The Young Lions competition (formerly known as the Young Creatives competition) is open to advertising professionals up to 28 years old. The participating teams, comprising an art director and copywriter, are selected through a pre-selection process in their own country, with the winners attending Cannes.

Don't ignore child labour!

On the 26th of March, World Vision launched a campaign to create more awareness around child labour. One hundred children demonstrated against this cruelty and visited embassies and the Dutch House of Parliament that day.
In order to support this cause, agency Ogilvy pasted life size adhesives of children at automatic revolving doors in Amsterdam, The Hague and Enschede.
Copy above the adhesives: “You can’t ignore child labour - kinderarbeid.nl” (kinderarbeid = child labour).

Free rice to train your brain and be generous.

Play on FREE RICE, give the meaning of different words and help giving rice to the UN World Food Program to fight hunger in the world.

100% easy. 100% free.

Family violence.

"Family violence is all around us. You can help stopt it. We can help you to find the right things to say and when to say them."

Waterworld.

Naga DDB Malaysia painted the poster for this Regional Environmental Awareness straight on the tiles of pool.
“Don’t let this be our future. Save our rainforest, stop global warming.”
Source: bestadsontv

Calculate your ecological footprint.

The ecological footprint is a measure of the pressure which exercise men on the nature. It is the tool which estimates the productive surface necessary for a population to satisfy its consumption of resources and its needs of absorption of waste.

On the scale of a person, the ecological footprint is an estimation of the necessary surface to satisfy all needs in natural resources.
Thanks to the WWF. Please click HERE. This site is multilingual.

One day or another we'll be too many on this planet.

Compensate for the pollution of which you are responsible.

If you travel a lot. If you often fly overseas or even in your own country, you're responsible for a part of the carbon dioxide created by the engines of the aircraft.
You know that, already.

Now, you can compensate for this pollution.
This is a great initiative by Air France & Goodplanet.
Click HERE: you'll find a CO2 calculator. You can simulate any flight on any destination operated by Air France to calculate your pollution.
If you want, you can decide to compensate this pollution by giving money.
It's both in french and english.

Landmines

On Sunday 1st April artist and activist Will St. Leger placed 100 fake 'landmines' made from stenciled metal plates in park around Dublin, Ireland.
Will St. Leger: "The reason for doing this was to get people asking themselves "what if the world I walked in was littered with landmines?"
By planting the fake landmines Will wants to highlight the lethal threat they pose to millions of people in 80 countries every day. " The only time that people really think about things is if they encounter them in their daily lives."
A sticker on the back of the devices provides information on landmines.
"They're nearly all gone now, the Police took away most of them when a tourist called the emergency number to report 'Landmines'. Afterwards, I wondered who the people of Laos, Cambodia and Iraq gonna call when they step on real landmine?"

Will St. Leger website

In a similar campaign, made by Rapp Collins Singapore for Clear Path International, frisbees that look like landmines had been distributed all over the city of Singapore by volunteers.
When someone picked one up a frisbee, a message at the bottom told that picking up a landmine is as easy as picking up a frisbee but with devastating results.

Buy less crap!

Make your own choice: donating directly to charities or buying junk from corporations who only donate a small portion of their product's profits. That's the idea behind this new initiative: Buy (less) crap, a collaboration between Romantic Static and Words Pictures Ideas.

Please visit Buy (less) crap.

International Women's Day.

Today is the international women's day.

Stop thinking it's only a matter of a single day in a year.
A friend of mine used to say: "International women's day? International dogs' day also exists!"

Let's say every 8th of march is a reminder though we shouldn't need it.

Kissing a smoker?

I often say that kissing a smoker is like kissing an ashtray. Apparently, the French National Committee Against Tobacco went a bit further :)
Don't remind me i'm a cigar-smoker; i know i am. But i do brush my teeth!!!