Artist: Julia Jia
Age: 9
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: Lead emitted into the air anywhere travels in wind currents to contaminate the highest peaks and ice at the poles. Switching to renewable energy will keep global temperatures stable, stop ice melting and also save our wildlife from lead.
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper
Artist: Julia Jia
Age: 9
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: To protect our air, land, rivers and oceans from spreadable lead, the world needs to ban all leaded products that are easily dispersed. For example lead sinkers, ammunition, weights and old style lead acid batteries that leak.
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper
Artist: Joshua Quarters
Age: 10
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: Apex predators like sharks biomagnify all the heavy metals like lead that their prey have bioaccumulated. Protect our oceans from leaded waste and stormwater and ban all leaded products like sinkers which might contaminate the sea.
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper
Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien
Lead-safety Message: I have a vision that the 2023 NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into whether the NSW regulatory framework for heavy metals and critical minerals mining is fit for purpose, will not only stop Bowdens and other proposed lead mines, but will find that no new lead mines in NSW can be justified! Let’s use recycled lead (eg using government rebates to remove and recycle lead roof flashing so lead-safe rainwater can be collected) instead for our renewable energy projects!
Description of Work: Powerpoint collage of screenshots from Communities anxious as NSW government spruiks mining, The 7.30 Report, 20 Sept 2023, ABC TV (on Youtube)
Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien
Lead-safety Message: As we age, we can stop taking in new lead, keep our brains and bodies active, meditate, eat local, grow and prepare our own lead detox foods, take detox supplements and look after the planet in other ways, but to avert a climate crisis, we also need researchers to investigate what definitely removes lead from our brains and bodies so we can do that too!
Description of Work: Powerpoint collage of photos around a screenshot from Dr Michael Cotton’s Source Code Meditation (SCM) The 9 Summits of Transformation Online Course.
Artist: Edison Nguyen
Age: 11
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: If you ever buy a metal miniature Dragon to paint, make sure the paints and the metal are lead-free.
Description of Work: “Lead” (actually lead-free graphite) coloured pencils on paper. Lead Safety Message from https://lead.org.au/q&a/2006/20061102001.html
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