Get Rid of Visual Polluation

In Alternet there is a story about Sao Paulo, Brazil, banning all outdoor signage in the city.

Just imagine, Toronto, or whatever city or town or even countryside you live in, without billboards or signs (even on barns)advertising everything. Isn't there enough advertising on TV, in magazines and newspapers and blogs or websites?

When I travelled in Spain a number of years ago, the countryside was unmarked by the legion of billboards and signs that ruin the beauty of streets or buildings or views. The only one I remember seeing now and then was an artistic sign, just a totally black sign, with no words or designs, in the shape of a bull. It looked like art and not visual garbage like almost every sign and billboard you can think of.

I am going to write to politicians at all three levels by email to let them know about this additional way to go green by cutting out the visual pollution everywhere. A bonus is that part of being green is to stop being such rampant consumers of things we do not need. Without the signs everywhere, maybe we can act like people and not Pavlov's dogs.

Let us take back our cities and towns and countryside from the corporations so that we can live in a more simple and green and beautiful manner.