2010年12月19日星期日

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Says Greenpeace: The street art project coincides with an announcement by the NationalSnow and Ice Data Center that Arctic sea ice has reached its secondlowest annual extent in recorded history. The Arctic sea ice hasfallen to a low of 1.74 million square miles in Replica Tag Heuer wv211c.ba0787 Carrera Automatic Watch September, roughly860,000 square miles below the long-term average.That’s an area of polar bear habitat three times the size of Texaslost this summer as a direct result of global warming, said CarrollMuffett, Deputy Campaigns Director for Greenpeace.Want to take action? Here.Meanwhile, heres what the DC police thought of the attention:--Matthew Fishbane

Hey, car driver! Crawl a few more times around the block: come Friday, cities across the globe will have --for a day-- a lot less spots for fossil-fuel-burnin, four-wheeled hunks of metal and plastic. In their stead, a tiny little oasis of a park. Its as if The Electric Companys Letterman, ripping the ing off the name of urban plannings biggest Replica Tag Heuer cah1111.ba0850 Formula Chronograph Watch waste of space, had transformed something useful to one into something useful to many.The idea of temporarily transforming metered parking spots into “PARK(ing)” spaces, or temporary public parks, comes from the San Francisco-based arts collective REBAR.New York City has over 50 park(ing) spots lined up. Heres what it looked like last year:But the party is global: from Brisbane to Leeds to Tulsa, citizens will be staking a little claim to their cities. Want to reclaim some park(ing) land in your own community? Contact the sponsoring organization, the Trust for Public Land.--Matthew Fishbane

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