Our CO2 Emissions in Perspective, A Copenhagen Art Installation

 

United Nations Climate Change Conference which took place in Copenhagen December 7th through 18th of 2009. Most design and sustainability blogs have already covered this and you can find the most useful information directly on the Conference's website. For this post, I wanted to draw attention to the art installation featured during the conference called "CO2 CUBES: Visualize a Tonne of Change." It has great impact for visualizing the average annual carbon dioxide emissions per person (in the US) which was rated at 20 metric tons in April 2008. This compares to a world average of 4 tons. The emissions calculated for a homeless person who ate in soup kitchens and slept in homeless shelters, or the lowest possible carbon emissions in the US was 8.5 tons.*

The C02 Cube is a digital media art installation designed by a collaboration of artists, architects and technologists. It represents the actual scale of 1 metric ton of carbon dioxide. Picture 20 of these cubes to visualize the average US citizen’s CO2 emissions every year. The cube is intended to foster a more profound understanding of how we contribute to climate change. This understanding will hopefully trigger more immediate action, possibly from people who previously doubted the level of our impact on the environment.

*MIT (2008, April 29). Carbon Footprint Of Best Conserving Americans Is Still Double Global Average.

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