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    Polar Bears: Street Art with a Deeper Meaning

    Posted: in News

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    Sheryl Canter
    Sheryl Canter

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    What lives when public transportation is used, and dies when it’s not? Potentially all of us.

    This message is hauntingly conveyed by a street art installation showing polar bears coming to life as a subway passes beneath them:

    [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/Fdu6AD5Y3D0" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]

    This post is by Sheryl Canter, an online writer and editorial manager at Environmental Defense Fund.

    3 Comments

    1. Peter Black
      Posted September 9, 2008 at 5:34 pm | Permalink

      I can see DJ Ian already putting together the mock retreat video…

      Seriously though, public transit use is up, and funding is being considered in congress: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122092597953413373.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

      This is a major quality of life issue in the short term, and as the ad suggests, a moral question for all of us to ponder.

    2. quentinp
      Posted September 24, 2008 at 12:08 pm | Permalink

      Wonderful!

    3. nordog4
      Posted September 28, 2008 at 8:47 pm | Permalink

      Extremely Powerful.

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