February 14, 2008

Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?

The most memorable paragraph from this short article from National Geographic Kids (Febrary 14, 2008) :
Imagine a water bottle
filled a quarter of the way up with oil.
That’s about how much oil
was needed to produce the bottle.

Read the full article here.

Source: National Geographic Kids

February 1, 2008

Art - Interview with Chris Jordan

Chris Jordan gave the keynote address at the Greener Gadgets Conference in 2008.

See a portion of his keynote here and the full thirty minute presentation here. He talks about trying to find a way to depict the actual quantities of our consumption - since its true scale is invisible.

See interview with Chris Jordan as he talks about how his artwork is trying to show that -every- individual matters. He speaks eloquently about the role of each of us in the collective, and that
in the giant problem that we all face each of us in charge of one piece of the solution, and that is our own consumption


Source: inhabit.com