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Australian wildflowers flourishing and rotting together
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Lead-safety Message: The living and the dead: the difference could be lead.
Artist: Cameron Bestwick
Description of Work: A photograph taken by the artist near Blackheath NSW
depicting the fine edge between a flourishing life and ruin. These flowers have grown in the same place and under almost the same conditions. Some have flourished and some are dead. A seemingly small factor – such as the presence of an unsafe amount of lead – can be the deciding factor between them.
Diminished
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Lead-safety Message: This allegorical image symbolises the lead
contamination that, more or less, surrounds us in the anthropocene. When it
is more, it can diminish a happy family. The family is shown small to
emphasise how lead toxicity can diminish our lives both in length and
quality. I chose an interracial family to show how lead can impact anybody,
but particularly children. Each strike of dark lighting is an incidental,
toxic hit; the cloud is environmental, cumulative lead. The images are
‘creative commons’ which further references the ubiquity of lead. The leaden
sky aims to bring a mood that is redolent of the plumbophobia that can
overcome us when we understand the truth about lead. The image stiffens the
resolve of this lead soldier to continue the grim fight. Have a nice day.
Artist: Justone Lead-Soldier
Description of Work: Powerpoint. Acknowledgements:
https://www.kissclipart.com/transparent-dark-cloud-clipart-dark-cloud-cumulus-h7wg3d/download-clipart.html
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
ttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Drafting of the lead paint law in Zambia
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Lead-safety Message: The 2019 Environmental and Climate Change Award (Environmental Activism Award) was awarded to the Children’s Environmental Health Foundation (CEHF) who through the Chairman and Coordinator has been instrumental in advocating for the enactment of the lead paint laws to Ban the manufacture, distribution, import, export, sale and use of lead paint. Advocacy was most directed at key stakeholders: policy makers and decision makers. This led to the adoption of 90ppm lead in paint standard as per the WHO/UN Lead Paint Alliance. Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA) Awarded CEHF for a successful lead in paint elimination Campaign, at the event officiated by the Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet Mr Christopher Mvunga. The 90 PPM standard has been adopted by Zambia Bureau and submitted for government Gazetting.
Artist: Michael Musenga
Description of Work: 90 PPM standard has been adopted by Zambia Bureau and
submitted for government Gazetting
Environmental award for CEHF’s development of legally binding legislation to ban lead in paints in Zambia
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Lead-safety Message: Lead Safe Africa. Zambia has no legally binding regulations to limit lead in paint. The IPEN /CEHF Zambia lead report’s results is a strong justification for Zambia to enact the law. CEHF’s participation in the Independence celebration 2018 (where they were awarded this prize) was to reach as many High level personnel to help in the support for the drafting legal team.
Artist: Michael Musenga
Description of Work: Photo
People’s Choice
Copyright - Volcano Art Prize by The LEAD Group Inc.