What to do with water bottles? Make an aquarium!

Miwa Koizumi's PET Project

It seems that Earth Day this year will be a big deal.  Even Macy's Department store is sporting a huge inflatable world at its front entrance to call awareness to Earth Day. 

I think that thinking about the environment is important everywhere, but in New York it has a particular importance.  Obviously, we do not, as a large urban community, take care of our own garbage.  We rely on other land and people to deal with the massive amount of trash and recycling thrown out everyday.  A general lack of awareness about the environment is perhaps bred by the industrialized nature of the city with its emphasis on concrete over green spaces.  Even today, you can sometimes walk for blocks seeing only concrete and no green space.  And, many people are far too casual about trash, tossing their litter in people's yards, on the streets, and on the subway tracks.  So, enter New York artist Miwa Koizumi who takes plastic water bottles and transforms them into underwater sea creatures.  See images of the creatures, like jellyfish, here.  And the "aquarium" here.  Read more about the artist here.