We have reached the tipping point with the Anthropocene, an era defined as one in which human activities have significantly..
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(Photo: Matt Cardy/Getty Images) Last year, Chinese dissident and humanitarian artist Ai Weiwei created a site-specific installation at Alcatraz Island,..
Street Art, once seen as common graffiti and an aspect of urban blight has, since the 1980s rise of the..
(Photograph: John Lamparski/Getty Images) For anyone who participated in the 400,000 strong #PeoplesClimateMarch on Autumn Equinox September 21, 2014, the..
1)Power To Fly was founded by Katherine Zaleski and Milena Berry (pictured above) as an effort to address the lack..
The most uncanny aspect of “Citizen Four,” the Laura Poitras film which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary this..
This Fall, #BlackLivesMatter, a powerful hashtag movement coursed through Twitter in response to the murder of an unarmed Michael Brown..
The New York City People’s Climate March on September 21st, 2014 exceeded the expectations of the organizers as well as..
This Sunday, September 21st, citizens, activists, artists, non-profits, labor unions and everyone under the sun is invited to participate in..
Whether you’re a health food shopper, conscious consumer, or have been to a grocery store recently, chances are you’ve heard..
208 girls were abducted from a boarding school in Nigeria three weeks ago by a militant terrorist group, Boko Haram…
It’s no secret that The Viral Media Lab is a fan of social change documentaries. We’ve featured posts on feature..
What happens when a social cause movement becomes famous without a leader? One such example is the hacktivist collective Anonymous,..
A place in New York for people who are changing the world? Look no further… A couple of weeks ago,..
If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain.”–Ai WeiWei Ai WeiWei, the Chinese-born impresario of..
At the launch of the Omega Center for Women’s Leadership in September 2012, Eve Ensler debuted her drumbeat call for..
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It's shocking that there are still climate change deniers in our society. Donald Trump, one of the leading presidential candidates, has actually claimed […]
I had never heard of Ai WeiWei before this post but I find that any artist that sacrifices their own personal security and wellbeing in […]
All of these figures are extremely eloquent and brave for their feminist efforts. The #HeforShe campaign attracted my attention right away because I feel as […]
If only we practiced altruism as a meme as often as we shared cultural memes on social media... I thought Ricard's Ted Talk was brilliant […]
Ai WeiWei is just the coolest person. He takes risks and uses objects for a purpose to tell a story. I thought bringing a […]