The 2009 Changents picture review
In 2009 Pictures Screamed Louder than Words: Which Change Agent Screamed the Loudest?
Scott Harrison stunned us with a beautiful slide show about "The End of the World," a village in Central African Republic. Scott's org, charity: water, changed lives in an instant - as they have done so many times before - when they drilled a clean water well for the village.
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Anna Cummins heard a talk on the North Pacific Gyre and it changed her life forever. She's trying to help raise awareness about the Pacific Ocean turning into plastic soup. This is a picture of a youth canoeing down a waterway in Java. Anna created a JUNK raft and began giving talks down the West Coast about the effects of plastics on the water. It's not easy work to change the world one piece of plastic at a time, but Anna's doing a pretty awesome job.
Christine Destrempes' exhibit "13,699" stands for the number of people who die each day from water related diseases. Each person is represented by a bottle cap - captured before heading to the landfill and suspended from fishing line.
This looks like paradise, right? Erland Howden may have captured a gorgeous beach scene in Papua, New Guinea, but if you look closer you can see that the sand is disappearing from the base of the palm tree. The culprit? Erosion caused by global warming.
Want to help make a difference in 2010? Check out what the Change Agents are doing on Changents.com and back one. Maybe you can help make a change in 2010.
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