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This is one of the more important TED Talks I’ve watched.

Photographer James Balog has spent the last few years dedicating himself to creating a record of just how bad Global Warming actually is. He’s positioned dozens of time lapse cameras in glacial and alpine regions, and makes films showing how the glaciers are retreating, releasing millions of litres of water into the world’s oceans.

He’s showing how the rate of glacial retreat is accelerating.

Please watch this video. It’s a twenty-minute journey into the wonder of nature, and the mystery of humankind’s ability to destroy everything we know.

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Bigger Picture Visual Vitamins Blog Global Inputs Nov 5 2009

by Roy Blumenthal on November 6, 2009

Ole Qvist-Sørensen, director of the Danish visual facilitation firm, BIGGER PICTURE, put out a call to visual facilitators around the world to help out with a fascinating challenge…

To create emergency pictures during the BARCELONA CLIMATE TALKS currently taking place in Spain this past week in an attempt to demonstrate to the various government bodies, NGOs, sponsors and donors that visual facilitation adds massive value to what they’re attempting.

And what exactly are they attempting to achieve in this meeting?

Nothing short of saving the world. Literally.

The meeting this week was a pilot to thrash out some issues surrounding December’s COP15 in Copenhagen. This is the summit that is tasked with replacing the Kyoto Protocol. And it’s truly about how governments, municipalities, individuals, corporations can go about urgently reducing carbon emissions, and increasing sustainability.

The SlideShare you see here is a smattering of contributions from artists around the world. We all volunteered our time and energy to the cause. And hopefully, we’ll all be in Copenhagen in December as part of Ole’s envisaged ‘Visual Facilitation SWAT Team’.

These are the artists who have contributed so far:

Katrine Clante, Denmark
Nancy Margulies, US
Roy Blumenthal, South Africa
Erik Petri, Denmark
Harry van der Velde, The Netherlands
Maja Rottbøll, Denmark.

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