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photos of Manchester carbon footprint stencils

decorator | 07.02.2007 22:48 | Climate Camp 2006 | Climate Chaos | Ecology

Last Thursday, to coincide with the IPCC report, a group of Manchester climate activists decorated the pavements outside flight centres, petrol stations, supermarkets and a humvee garage with carbon footprints.








Roughly a dozen stencils appeared Friday morning in various city centre locations. The stunt followed a number of other awareness raising actions in Manchester, such as the blockade of the humvee garage a few weeks earlier.

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brilliantly inventive action

07.02.2007 23:00

would be fantastic if this action spreads all around the country as it's a superb way of forcing jo public to recognise the connection between her/his actions and climate change.

l o carbon

NETCU

08.02.2007 00:01

very clever but we have leads now thanks to the shadow presented in the picture ;O)

pearly gates

...But does it educate?

26.02.2007 22:47

Very clever and colourful approach but I wonder will it make sense to the portion of the public(probably the majority) not already familiar with the concept of a carbon footprint? If campaign is to continue it seems there should be some further explanation of what the footprints represent. Although mystery is intriguing, of course....

Mr. E