This week's challenge from Viridian was to find stamps with a message - or a Public Service Announcement. I went with an environmental theme.
There are also 'save our cities' and 'save our air' stamps to go with this anti-pollution issue from 1970, but these are the only two I have. They each have a globe on the left side with the top one showing a bluegill fish and the bottom one showing a wheat sheaf.
Jump to 2011 and these stamps show a much more local way of helping our environment with simple every day activities. Animator Eli Noyes designed the sixteen stamps in the total set (because four activities was just not enough) ranging from turning off lights and adjusting the thermostat to using public transit and riding a bike.
The 2011 one are very striking, I like the sound of sticking 16 stamps messages on envelopes. I could send he fix water leaks one to our Water Company!
ReplyDeleteThat is interesting! I posted some Australian stamps from 2008 with a very similar message to the 2011 ones from the USA - but the Aussie ones were only a set of four (and I only have three of them). Our former PM described climate changes as "the greatest moral challenge of our times" and I guess these stamp issues go to show that the environment is definitely a topic that we are all thinking about in a more practical way these days.
ReplyDeletei like the drawings of the 'go green' stamps...does give you the desire to actually respect the messages :)
ReplyDeleteI included a link to the Save Water message. I concur with the messages on the 'Green' stamps. It's a pity so many people just don't bother.
ReplyDeleteThe 2011 stamps are great designs.
ReplyDeleteI'd not seen the older stamps. Hurrah for them too. Perhaps people think one person cannot make a difference, but you can. And if we all doing something, amazing things can happen.
ReplyDeleteThank you for participating!
I like those U.S. stamps. I don't remember seeing them before.
ReplyDeleteI have several of the Go Green stamps. I think they're superb.
ReplyDeleteI love those Go Green stamps - great designs - could really get the point over.
ReplyDeleteI like stamps with messages and think those would be good to collect. I might get interested in doing that.
ReplyDeleteI bought several sheets of that new set this year - I likes getting to use stamps to spread the environmental message.
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