NON ad of the day #13: Plane Stupid’s Polar Bears Ad, Just Plain Counter-Productive!

Few months after the controversy around the WWF Brazil / DDB Brazil 9/11 ad, shockvertising is at again with a new ad / promotional film from U.K.-based anti-aviation expansion campaigners Plane Stupid, and developed by the ad agency Mother. This Continue reading

Leading to COP15: Understanding China’s position on Climate Change – An Edelman Paper

COP 15 is now few weeks (if not days) away, the clock is ticking. But the recent Singapore announcement did not help in bringing some hope, as, confirming doubts that had been growing for months, the world leaders in attendance Continue reading

Is social media creating a mainstream climate change movement ahead of COP15?

Today is Blog Action Day, which this year is about climate change. This campaign, as some other ones, got a lot of people excited, including me, about the potential for using digital and social media to confront climate change, and Continue reading

Ad(ctivism) of the day #11: Beds Are Burning, by Tck Tck Tck Campaign

With COP 15 coming up in December, I have been following very closely all the awareness campaigns led by several groups, multilaterals and NGOs all around the world (i.e. Hopenhagen, etc.) All campaigns are being pretty innovative and make great Continue reading

Blog Action Day 2009 on Climate Change: Will you be part of it?

I will be. This year’s Blog Action Day theme is Climate Change. October 15th, save the date! From the Blog Action Day website: Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same Continue reading

Ad(ctivism) of the day #10: WWF’s Melting Ice Men in Germany

With all the controversy around the WWF Brazil 9/11 ‘scam ad’, we could haveĀ  very well never heard about the operation conducted by the WWF in Germany almost at the same time/date. However, the genius and creativity of the ‘Melting Continue reading