iLCP & Conservation Photography

The International League of Conservation Photographers is a non-profit organization made up of professional photographers whose mission is to convey the beauty of the natural world through the power of conservation photography. It members collaborate with scientists, leaders, conservation groups, and policy makers to shed light on various environmental issues that may affect us on different levels.



In light of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, the iLCP has selected 40 photographs spanning a hundred years of photography, showcasing an array of hard-to-capture moments in nature while highlighting some of the most important environmental issues of our time. Prints of the selected photographs will be sold at Christie's Green Auction, where proceeds will go to several green organizations.


-Andy

Capturing It In Pieces

As if animals couldn't be 'funner' and educational, the Philadelphia Zoo is showing an animal exhibit titled: Creatures of Habitat: A Gazillion-Piece Animal Adventure exhibit that is made entirely out of LEGO. The artist, Sean Kenney, has spent the past year creating his 30 plus-animal ensemble with focus on endangered species like the antarctic penguins pictured above entirely out of LEGO, in the hopes of highlighting the importance of natural preservation. See the slideshow for a selection of the featured creatures.

Also learn and see more of the artist's work at his website.


-Andy

New Bike Share System, Copenhagen Competition

Check out this highly designed bike share system proposed for Copenhagen. The end goal is to increase the number of commuters traveling by bicycle from 37% to 50% by 2015, but in order to do so the design calls for a high-tech, all knowing, (somewhat frightening) bicycle.


Via RAFAA Architecture and Design.


- Anna

Friedman in the Forest

Take a look at today's New York Times op-ed column by Thomas Friedman. It concerns the Brazilian rainforest and is both depressing and hopeful. (Unfortunately, it's a bit more on the depressing side.) Still, it's interesting and certainly worth reading.

Great find, Michelle!

-Kaitlen & Vina

Challenge: Meat-Free Weekdays

How's this for a challenge? Per TreeHugger's suggestion, try eliminating meat from your weekday diet. If enough of us went weekday-vegetarian, we could reduce climate change mitigation costs by up to 70 percent. That's worth saving meat for the weekends, isn't it? Also, in this economy, think of all the money you'd save by not buying meat most days!

-Kaitlen

Vacation Nation

We all love our vacation days, but fabulous trips to far-off lands aren't always in the cards. The economy is tanking...and let's face it—travel (especially by plane) is often an environmentally unfriendly option.

However, check out organizations like Ecovolunteer. It's essentially a travel agency for volunteers interested in conservation; you can choose by locale you'd like to visit or species you'd like to work with. It sounds like a fair mix of work and play, plus the chance for some up-close interaction with rare and/or endangered animals. (I vote for hanging with the river otters in Brazil!)

-Kaitlen