visualizing some scary numbers
50http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id
gives some great visual images.
Thery subject matter is awful. Ranging from the multilation of breast augmentation, the size of the Amercian prison population, to the instaiable demand for useless plastic of all kinds, these pieces of art "paint" an image of an American lifestyle that is totally pout of contrl or sustainability.
The problem, however, with most recycling efforts is that Amercian are so attached to "things" that even wehen they recycle, they demand that things stay the same. Office paper becomes p;aper towels and bathroom tissue...but then that paper is lost to the ecology in sewage teratment or landfills. Last I knew 39% of an American landfill bgy volume is paper. That paper can be combined with seage to prodice natural gas, which instead of being slowly vented as a green house gas creator, can become elctricity from fuel cels. That is a trewnd that is growing. The heat generated from those fuel cels can be reclaimned to speed the anaerobic lifetysle of the methane makers. Slurry from such a system can be cleaned of metal by water hyacinth and water lettuce, and then used to feritilise soil--reducing the heat load produced by other feritilsiers' prodiction.
Plastic can be recycled most effiecenly back into pertroeum sotcks and natural gas...not into carpetting, etc.
REcycling glass is most efficiently done by having the consumer be able to toss the glass into organised tradh for central sorting, rather than urning fuel getting it tio a recycling center.
The Earth is a system. Systems need balance. What goes wrong on earth? the human race. By redisocvering our sense of connetedness to the eartth, swe might recover out sense of connectedness to each other.
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Chef Jeff says:
2 years ago
I created several shopping bags that we use when we go shopping. They are made of linen, not cotton, and can easily hold the groceries we buy locally. My grandmother used to have a simple two-wheeled shopping cart that folded up for easy storage. When I lived in Spain we used one like that, but I had to leave it behind when we moved back to the States.
We used to do all our shopping in Spain in the small stores that existed beneath the "pisos", the apartment buildings. We could buy just about anything we needed within a block of two from our piso. I didn't have q car and took a train to work. I wish we could do that again in the U.S.! Too many mega-stores, too little Humanity!
Keep up the passion for the Earth!