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Documerica Returns with State of the Environment!

2011 May 2

40 years ago, Documerica captured a visual baseline of our environmental conditions in the United States. EPA was a new agency setting out to forever after share these with you to help note our collective progress. It’s your chance now to mark the change.

global call is out for photos of our lives and our environment, plus a challenge to match Documerica scenes today. You can submit photos through 2013.

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11 Responses leave one →
  1. Macci Martinez permalink
    November 12, 2011

    There are many campaigns that is running everywhere. Now it’s not that people don’t wanna join such programs. But it’s just the time they all start thinking about it.

  2. Dave permalink
    January 13, 2012

    It would be great if you could do the same thing with the audible environment. e.g. I bet that aircraft noise is now much worse than in the 1970′s. Here is a map of flight routes, note how you cannot even see the ground below the flight paths in many areas: http://openflights.org/demo/openflights-routedb-2048.png (from http://openflights.org/data.html). There are very few places on earth where you are not exposed to noise from human machines.

    Here is a good starting place for more info: http://www.acousticecology.org/wildlandbiology.html

  3. July 27, 2012

    I think everything is louder now. The sheer number of added cars and jets is mind boggling. When you live or work near a busy road, the sound of passing cars becomes a new sort of really loud white noise.
    There must be so many opportunities for photos, especially showing out of place wildlife and with architects making housing from shipping containers and old jets, there must be a big junkyard full of these things. Let’s get out those cameras and start snapping away!
    http://www.lostdestinations.com/airplane.htm
    I found a site were somebody cells the cargo containers
    http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/07/22/cargo-shipping-containers-are-an-international-salvage-resource/
    http://www.thecctvblog.com/on-the-horizon-the-benefits-of-hd-sdi

  4. July 30, 2012

    Documerica pictures are always wonderful. These are breathtaking. Looking forward to see your next contest.

  5. August 3, 2012

    Traveling and taking snapshots of the world. How much better can it get?

  6. Joseph Rettig permalink
    August 16, 2012

    Signs he is interested

  7. Prince permalink
    August 28, 2012

    We are taking some serious step to move foreword and increasing awareness among the people about our environment and climate.To spreed our activities we start many many campaigns…居合

  8. váy cưới permalink
    September 6, 2012

    oh, Thanks to poste

  9. Đại Hải permalink
    September 11, 2012

    We are taking some serious step to move foreword and increasing awareness among the people about our environment and climate camera.

  10. slim permalink
    September 18, 2012

    Thank you for the information. Hopefully you can provide more information.

  11. Kevin Vet permalink
    September 18, 2012

    Documerica is going to show quite the contrast.

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