http://www.republicofeveryone.com Using marketing, advertising and sustainability to help save the world. Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:22:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Jealous, jealous, jealous. That's what we were when we saw this. Beautifully conceived, honestly written and simply shot on nothing more advanced than a cameraphone. Good to see art and conscience still going so well hand in hand. http://www.republicofeveryone.com/2009/01/05/winner-ny-tropfest-2008/ A bit of shameless self promotion really, but we were quite happy to note that our work for the International Fund for Animal Welfare is this week's featured case study for Marketing Magazine. See the article here. http://www.republicofeveryone.com/2008/11/17/our-campaign-in-marketing-magazine/ Nice piece of work from Greenpeace in the USA. Gives you that warm fuzzy feeling that maybe, as a great man once said, the times they are a changing. http://www.republicofeveryone.com/2008/10/29/jfk-calls-for-a-revolution/ We don't just make ads. On the odd occasion we star in them as well. In this charity spot produced by our friends Notice Corp. Ben plays the Grim Reaper. Let's just say it was a long hot shoot on Rollerblades. http://www.republicofeveryone.com/2008/10/28/acting-the-grim-reaper/ One of our fathers sent us this one so we thought we'd share it with you, dear readers. After all, when the world's going down the toilet you have to keep a sense of humour. http://www.republicofeveryone.com/2008/10/27/clean-energy/ Let's face it, in many ways we'd all rather recycle our used items than not, it's just that sometimes it's impossible to know where to find someone to take our used goodies. So instead, our old TVs, sofas and all the rest of it end up on the street or ... http://www.republicofeveryone.com/2008/10/14/recycling-is-about-knowing-where-to-find-it/ Wow what a week on the stock market hey? It makes you wonder what to invest in now or whether anyone is ever going to have any money again to invest at all. Which makes this story from Reuters via news.com.au quite timely. It talks about the success of Belgium's ethical ... http://www.republicofeveryone.com/2008/10/10/savers-move-to-ethical-banking/ Not much to add here. Picture says it all really. http://www.republicofeveryone.com/2008/10/02/perk-parking/ Isn't it great how in this day and age good ideas can be built upon? Ever since stealing someone else's guitar riff was reclassified from thievery to sampling we have more and more of this remixing, ending up (so far) as 'mashing' and 'hacking'. One great example of this is ... http://www.republicofeveryone.com/2008/10/02/the-open-green-map/ If you're wondering when the web and TV will come together sites like this one might hold the answer for you. Not backward in coming forward, this 20 minute video is stacked with facts and questions the linear relationship of consumption on the environment (ie: lots out, nothing back). The ... http://www.republicofeveryone.com/2008/10/01/the-story-of-stuff/