Featured Change Agent: The Canary Project is Helping the World Visualize Global Warming

Each week, EarthFirst.com will be featuring a new ‘Change Agent’ from Changents.com, a social media site that connects people who are doing good in the world with a support system of advocates, donors, publicity generators and fans.

This week, we’re featuring ‘The Canary Project’, which aims to spread awareness about global warming through artwork and visual media.  The Canary Project was created by husband and wife team Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris, a couple with dramatically different backgrounds who began working together toward this common goal.  Ed, a former partner in a private investigation firm working for NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg, certainly didn’t expect to quit his job to produce artwork with his wife.  But, that’s how it happened.

Susannah is a photographer who has long been drawn to landscapes, and how humans can find so much emotional meaning in photos of places they’ve never even been to. Susannah takes photographs of places all over the world that have been impacted by climate change, recently traveling to Antarctica and Peru. She has also photographed places where she and Ed have noted efforts to adapt to and/or fight climate change. Susannah and Ed believe that climate change is the greatest challenge of our time, and one that needs to be publicized.  They’ve been showing their photography in clubs and other venues in New York for years, but wanted the message to reach much further.

Soon, Susannah and Ed realized that they needed more than just photographs to capture the attention of the world.  They began working with artists, writers and scientists on collaborations that led to The Canary Project in its current form.  The Canary Project has spent this summer shooting innovative renewable energy projects in Spain, talking to artists and designers working on sustainability issues in Barcelona, and hooked up with fellow Change Agents ‘The Big Green Bus’ in San Francisco.  They launched ‘Green Patriot Posters’, an effort to create positive, strong images that urge sustainability action similar to WWII-era posters that urged team spirit.

Check out this video introduction of The Canary Project:

The Canary Project is currently seeking climate change-related artwork, and help with their ‘Green Patriot’ project.  They’re also asking supporters to sign up for wind energy and support at www.newwindenergy.com/canary.  To see the rest of The Canary Project’s action opportunities, check out their Changents page.

Help Susannah and Ed spread this very important message across the globe.  Join Changents today as a backer.  You can support them as a donor, publicity generator, advocate, fan or active volunteer.  Learn more about The Canary Project and view the rest of Susannah and Ed’s videos at Canary-Project.org.

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