Hard Rain in the square outside Malmö Town Hall for the EU Committee of the Regions in October 2011, in association with Sida

Hard Rain Project is a not-for profit company established to campaign for realistic solutions to global problems.

The original exhibition, Hard Rain: Our headlong collision with nature, has been seen by some 15 million people at over 100 venues around the world. One of the most successful photographic exhibitions ever created, it has attracted huge public and critical acclaim, along with the support and endorsement of political and environmental leaders.

“Sad forests”, “dead oceans”, “where the people are many and their hands are all empty”; Hard Rain highlights the interconnected problems of climate change, poverty, the wasteful use of resources, population expansion, habitat destruction and species loss.

A new display, Whole Earth? Aligning human systems and natural systems, responds to requests by thousands of visitors and curators for an exhibition that presents solutions to the challenges set out in Hard Rain.

It is designed to renew the ambitions for change in a large cross-section of the public and encourage political and business leaders to take bold, long-term decisions to secure our gains and avoid the disasters that appear increasingly imminent.

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Mark Edwards is one of the few environmental communicators to have personally witnessed the global issues that are defining the 21st century. Assignments for magazines, NGOs and United Nations agencies have taken him to over 150 countries. One of the most widely published photographers in the world, his pictures are in many international museums and private collections. In 1985 he founded Still Pictures, the world’s leading photo agency specializing in the environment, social issues and nature.

Previous environmental exhibitions include Focus on Your World, a display of 400 large prints at Heathrow Airport. It was seen by over 5 million travellers. Mark has written several bestselling books on photography and co-authored Changing Consciousness with experimental physicist Professor David Bohm.

Bob Dylan is now in his sixth decade as the most influential singer-songwriter on the planet. “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” was written at the time of the Cuban missile crisis, when the world was on the verge of nuclear wipe-out. Now we understand that our environmental problems are just as desperate and just as threatening as nuclear blasts.
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Lloyd Timberlake has reported on environment and development issues from more than 60 countries, and his articles have appeared in most of the world’s major newspapers. He has written prize-winning books under his own name (Africa in Crisis, Only One Earth, When the Bough Breaks) and books for organizations such as the Brundtland Commission, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the UN Environment Programme. He recently advised President Obama’s National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling.

He has been a visiting academic fellow at Imperial College, London, and at New York University Law School. After graduating from Yale, he taught literature and chicken farming to members of Southern African revolutionary parties and served as honorary commandant of the Tanzanian Mounted Police Force. He now lives in Washington DC and kayaks in the Chesapeake Bay.