The unofficial US national parks Twitter account @AltNatParkSer was created on the 24th of January as an alternative to the official page of the National Park Service (NPS), the government agency entrusted with the care of the country’s protected areas. The objective is to resist newly-elected Donald Trump‘s backlash against former president Barack Obama’s action plan on climate change, including the removal
Etienne Turpin is a philosopher specialised in complex urban systems, aesthetics and visual culture. He believes that the only meaningful way to approach the problem of “urban flooding in the context of climate change is honest, open science with open source software and open data that can be reviewed by a community of users”.
We’re used to seeing Africa portrayed in the news as a hotbed of conflict, disease and poverty. Africans are rebelling against the image of the troubled continent through #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou. Under this hashtag you can find over 42,000 tweets and retweets covering topics ranging from architecture to fashion, landscapes to social initiatives, history to modern innovations.
