- I built an 11-foot skull covered in E-Waste to expose Bitcoin’s Impact on Climate Change Everything we do online takes energy. A single google search? That takes 1080 Joules of energy*. Streaming an hour of Netflix? 288,000 Joules*. One Bitcoin transaction? A mindboggling 6,995,000,000 Joules.* Bitcoin is an energy monster, burning a ton of fossil fuels – but it could disappear overnight if someone designed the right software update. Ethereum did […]
- 10 foot tall Extinction Thermometer highlighting the connection between climate change and biodiversity loss. During the cold war, the doomsday clock was a symbol and metaphor that was used to describe how close we were to mutually assured destruction. It served as a powerful and persistent reminder of how fragile our existence was. But when it comes to climate change, a similar symbol was never envisioned – until now. […]
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Explaining Climate Equity with Paper and Charcoal A couple months ago, my good friend and data scientist Eric Berlow challenged me to explain the concept of “Climate Equity” through art. After throwing many different ideas around, we finally settled on making a diorama – a three-dimensional charcoal drawing made from 22 different pieces of paper, drawn with the help of 16-year-old illustrator […] -
This three story tall giant art installation is leaking plastics into different environments Single-use plastic consumption has gone up by 250-300% during the pandemic. And with the United Nations Environmental Assembly coming together in February 2022 to discuss a global plastic treaty, we need to put pressure on world leaders to get the situation under control! As an artist and activist, I’m always looking for exciting ways to make the […] - Impossible Maternity Photos with Fruits & Vegetables After noticing that Corn looked like Skyscrapers, my mom asked if I could help her create a series of tiny world portraits of my 8-month old pregnant sister and her husband. My sister is a pretty adventurous lady but since the lockdowns began, we’ve been all trapped… so we decided to give her an adventure […]
- This cosmic cave is an Instagram trap made from 18,000 used plastic cups Every single day, millions of plastic takeaway cups are used in food centers across the world. Receiving a takeaway cup, even when dining in – has become so commonplace that we don’t even think twice about how little sense it makes to use take-out cups within a dine-in setting. To help start that conversation, we […]
- “The Parting of the Plastic Sea” an installation made from 168,000 used plastic straws It’s just one straw, said 8 billion people. Sounds like a cliche little quote – but these little things really do add up. Straws are virtually impossible to recycle in most places around the world because of how light and small they are. They’re also one of the easiest products to turn down at a […]
- My Friend And I Built The World’s Tallest Closet My friend Laura is a social impact designer who has an unconventional passion for clothing. She realized long ago that we buy far more clothes than we need, simply because we can. Since then, she’s been looking to find different ways to get people to fall in love with their clothing. Telling people to “not buy more […]
- Every 60 Seconds, This Much Plastic Enters The Ocean. Why throw plastics into the ocean? I can’t speak for others but in our case, we decided to throw an entire truckload of plastic into the ocean after we learned about this shocking statistic: ” Every 60 seconds, the equivalent of a truckload of plastic enters the ocean. “ Although we were able to remove […]
- Where are your clothes born? 10 years ago, this was a clothing factory that employed almost 5000 workers Once called the Tak Fat garment factory – it is now being renovated and converted into a creative coworking space in Cambodia. When it went bankrupt in 2009, thousands and thousands of pounds of brand new clothes were abandoned. I’m always hunting for […]
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4100lbs of E-Waste resurrected. Trillions to go. Every single day, 142,000 computers are thrown away in the United States At least, that was the case in 2010. Electronic waste is the fastest growing municipal waste stream in the world. Today, that number is far higher and the only way to alleviate the situation is getting people to talk more about it. Unfortunately, e-waste […] - Did you know your laundry is toxic? These laundry monsters represent reality We have a big problem. Our tap water is being contaminated every single day. The laundry that we do every single day is the cause! 94% of American tap water contains invisible plastic fibers. Tiny plastic fibers in our clothing – polyester, nylon, spandex to name a few – escape every time we do our […]
