Tactical Media, Sustainability and the Rise of the 'New Green Revolution'

The green revolution has had an impact on our current state of industry. We didn't even consider the toxic waste of our products when we first made them. But the public found what our products done to these poorer countries like Africa where they have mountains of old computers populating there lands and homes. We became more considerate of what we make and we try to make our products more environmentally friendly. We didn't really take that into consideration when we were creating out Self | Nature project. I do think we can reuse the stage we built for other projects. Also since we are using real grass, i feel the grass will not be wasted even if it dies. If you think about it, there's always a way to reuse something of old to create something of new. As our society advances we will find newer better ways to reuse our older products.

Capitalism's Twin Crises: Economic and Environmental

Its true that capitalism has proven resourceful, maybe for that reason it should't exactly be replaced. I understand that it has negative effects on our environment and people wouldn't want to change the system because there's always profits to be made. We just need to find a cost effective way to invest into natural power. I believe that will only come with time, once we discover another cheaper material that can replace our fossil fuel or oil based machines, with a more nature friendly resource that's cheaper to build. That will be probably when will start to step away from the harmful resources that's killing our planet. For example electric cars are expensive at the moment, but with time more car industries will start building these type of cars and everyone will have one at some point of time. The price of the cars will drop also.

A Plea for Earthly Sciences Idea

Bruno Latour made some interesting points on how the environment or also known as Gaia. Has suffered a lot since the dawn of man kind. We've been destroying Gaia since the beginning, but we only recently realize that we did so much harm to it. Because our damage is just starting to effect our way of life, Also makes a good point of how the social sciences has brought up an important topic. Which is everything is link or connected in a shape or form. For example our existent on the planet earth will always have a constant link between us and earth. Even if we did nothing for years we will always effect one another in someway. Even if it's not noticeable.

Our grass project does in fact use this idea of one can effect the other. We plan on using real grass and dirt and have it hooked up to an arduino which will track where a person is touching the grass which will effect a digital projection. The projection will be a digital rendering of grass and it will flatten once some touches the grass in a certain area. So if someone would lied down on the grass then there bodies outline would be showed as a flatten grass embodiment. Connecting the person to the environment.