{"id":1943,"date":"2009-07-09T19:10:33","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T00:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=1943"},"modified":"2018-10-30T01:36:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T20:36:57","slug":"adverts-to-save-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/adverts-to-save-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Adverts&#8230; to save the planet."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/adverts-for-the-environme-004.jpg\" alt=\"adverts-for-the-environme-004.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/adverts-for-the-environme-013.jpg\" alt=\"adverts-for-the-environme-013.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/adverts-for-the-environme-008.jpg\" alt=\"adverts-for-the-environme-008.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/adverts-for-the-environme-005.jpg\" alt=\"adverts-for-the-environme-005.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/adverts-for-the-environme-012.jpg\" alt=\"adverts-for-the-environme-012.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>London, U.K.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Since 2001, the Swiss-based not-for-profit organisation <em>ACT Responsible<\/em> (Advertising Community Together), has been collecting global advertising that \u201cpromotes responsible communication on sustainability, equitable development and social responsibility\u201d in a bid to highlight how the creativity of advertising professionals can be used to address the world\u2019s problems.<\/p>\n<p>Among its 2,500 ads from more than 40 countries and 140 award-winning agencies is a striking collection of adverts that focus on environmental and social issues: from deforestation to recycling and conserving water to climate change.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ads, from the top: <\/em>Killing trees is killing people.<em> for Friends of the Earth, France; <\/em>Travelling fruits cause pollution. (Think global. Eat local.)\u00a0<em> for Bund\/Friends of the Earth, Germany; <\/em>A single tin of paint can pollute millions of liters of water.<em> for WWF Spain; <\/em>Forests for Life.<em> for WWF Thailand; <\/em>Save.<em> for WWF Hungary.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Thanks to <a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.laurentrimble.com\/#bio\" target=\"_blank\">Lauren Trimble<\/a> for the link to a collection of adverts at <a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/gallery\/2009\/jul\/01\/act-responsible-environmental-advertising?picture=349628871\" target=\"_blank\">guardian.co.uk<\/a> <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, U.K. Since 2001, the Swiss-based not-for-profit organisation ACT Responsible (Advertising Community Together), has been collecting global advertising that \u201cpromotes responsible communication on sustainability, equitable development and social responsibility\u201d in a bid to highlight how the creativity of advertising professionals can be used to address the world\u2019s problems. Among its 2,500 ads from more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6,7,21,14,15,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16341,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions\/16341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}