Artists Project Earth is a non-profit organization who carry out many activist projects. Most of their projects are oriented towards raising awareness of environmental concerns, such as climate change in general. Being a little more specific, one of the projects that they were involved with was known as Earth Activist Training. EAT was a project that they created to get other people inspired and motivated to take the knowledge that they experienced through doing, back to their own communities so they could inspire their neighbourhood to get involved with climate change. That's part of their mission statement.
"We believe that people are most successful in achieving change when they have support for their decisions. This comes best when people work together - connecting with others, doing similar things and sharing experience." (Artists Project Earth)
I never really cared much for activists and whatever it is that they do. I always looked at them as people who try to cram their views down the throats of as many people that they can. I've even heard that if they can convert 100 people to see they light they way they do, they get a special prize. Because of that, I would never even picture myself being an activist at all because I don't want to be like them.
However, in this case, they are just raising awareness in a way that is friendly. Their approach is to just inform people in a way that doesn't make them seem like a cult. If all activist were like this, I would consider standing up for something that I truly believe in. But of course, you don't have to go overboard and start up something as big as these guys.
Even by giving into the business that call asking for generous donations is enough to say that you are involved. When my mom bed ridden with Leukemia, I found myself giving in small change to all sorts of cancer research and fundraisers. Sure, at the time, I didn't really know the difference, I heard the word cancer, and thought that maybe this is a disease that if you give away enough of your money, it will go away. Realistically, it will go away, just not for a very long time.
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Sources Cited
"About APE." APE. Web. 23 Nov 2009.
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