Friday, June 7, 2013

How One Instagram Hashtag Fights Pollution

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Instagram can make any situation look better: Flowers appear rosier, skies brighter and complexions clearer. Even garbage can become a work of art on the mobile photo-sharing platform.


About a year ago, Jeff Kirschner was walking with his two young children through the woods, when his daughter Tali noticed a can on the ground. "That's not supposed to be there," Tali noted to her father



That reminded Kirschner of his days at summer camp. The camp director would ask each of the 200 campers to pick up a couple pieces of garbage before their parents visited; it only took a small effort to clean the entire premises. Kirschner wondered if this same model of crowdsourced cleaning could apply to the planet as a whole. Read more...


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