Check these out: "postcards" from Appalachia have been placed as ads on Washington DC Metro. The new ad campaign --from the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition (OHVEC and at this new website, Stop Mountaintop Removal.org) -- takes the issue of visibility as its premise: if we can see/are forced to see the connections our consumption patterns have to the natural environs being consumed, we might re-envision those connections.
Another sample. (The link above has four posters.)
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