I went gleaning for fruit to try and reduce my carbon footprint. Was it enough? by [[Caitlin Hernández]]

for - sustainable building - building reuse vs new build - which is better? - California Forever - intentional community - green debate

sustainable building - building reuse vs new build - which is better? - Study by Preservation Green Lab in 2012 concluded that in most cases, reusing existing buildings is far lower carbon footprint than building new - Research study shows that we cannot expand human activity into intact nature any longer if we are to stay within planetary boundaries - Rockstrom - https://hyp.is/0dbJ4FQSEe-QxY8q4Y3yvw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaboF3vAsZs

for - urban agriculture - 2024 study - 6x carbon footprint as conventional agriculture

summary - The results are not surprising. It is the infrastructure used to build the urban agriculture system that has the greatest carbon footprint - This can be lowered dramatically by - having longer lasting UA projects - having larger scale projects - reusing urban demolition waste materials to build UA systems

from - search - Google - 2024 percentage of carbon emissions from food system - https://www.google.com/search?q=2024+percentage+of+carbon+emissions+from+food+system&sca_esv=9d5b952a18faf0f8&sxsrf=ADLYWIIlye-Qwjiqr8aEdCoiJshs-88Yqw%3A1720874425938&ei=uXWSZvvuOMjXhbIP-YeX6Aw&ved=0ahUKEwi7r_HmhKSHAxXIa0EAHfnDBc0Q4dUDCA8&uact=5&oq=2024+percentage+of+carbon+emissions+from+food+system&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiNDIwMjQgcGVyY2VudGFnZSBvZiBjYXJib24gZW1pc3Npb25zIGZyb20gZm9vZCBzeXN0ZW0yChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEdI3A5QmwhYpA1wAXgBkAEAmAGUA6AB6QiqAQUzLTIuMbgBA8gBAPgBAZgCAaACBJgDAIgGAZAGCJIHATGgB6IR&sclient=gws-wiz-serp - search results returned of interest - Food from urban agriculture has carbon footprint 6 times - A new study finds that fruits and vegetables grown in urban farms and gardens have a carbon footprint that is, on average, six times greater . - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/01/240122140408.htm

for - stats - carbon footprint of stone, steel, concrete

stats - carbon footprint - stone, steel , concrete - ( see below)

• The Inventory of Embodied Carbon and Energy 2019 says carbon footprint of the following building materials are:
  • ‘General stone’ - 0.079kg carbon per kg .
  • Concrete - 0.15kg carbon per kg and
  • Steel - 2.8kg carbon per kg.

• for: progress trap -AI, carbon footprint - AI, progress trap - AI - bias, progress trap - AI - situatedness

• for: carbon footprint of investments - example, carbon footprint - Paypal

• example

  • Paypals carbon footprint of investments and cash in bank was 55x higher than all other emissions combined. Wow!

The World Wide Web takes on an ecological identity in that it is defined by the ecology of relationships exercised within, determining the "environmental" aspects of the online world. What of media ecology and its impact on earth's ecology? There are climate change ramifications simply in the use of social media itself, yet alone the influences or behaviors associated with it: here is a carbon emissions calculator for seemingly "innocent" internet use:

• for: carbon footprint calculators - misleading

• for: climate change impacts - meat, carbon footprint - meat, leverage point - food, stats, stats - meat eating
• title:
• stats
  • 12% OF AMERICANS EAT HALF OF ALL BEEF CONSUMED IN A DAY
• date: Aug. 30, 2023
• source: https://www.futurity.org/beef-food-climate-change-2967702-2/
• cited paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/15/17/3795

• for: W2W, carbon inequality, carbon footprint - 1%, carbon emissions - 1%, luxury advertising, luxury advertising contracts, carbon emissions - luxury goods
• key insight
  • the elites are often the main popularizers, influencers and propagandists of the fantasy of overconsumption
  • culture of overconsumption
  • such elites have a close tie to the luxury industry via large advertising contracts
  • Media posts critical of the carbon air travel emissions of famous DJ named DJ Snake offers a prime example of a common attitude of privilege and self-righteousness found amongst a number of elites

• for: carbon footprint - music industry, carbon footprint - concerts, carbon footprint - touring
• paraphrase
  • Most renowned artists and the trades and professions around them
    • producers,
    • broadcasters,
    • booking agents,
    • distributors, internet platforms
    • studios
    • equipment and service providers
  • are today dependent on hyper-intensive energy-consuming models.
  • Music or showbusiness artists, for example, depend more and more on touring and festivals.
  • Namely because with a remuneration of 0,0034 dollars per listened music track,
    • only 1% of music artists receive a minimum wage through streaming and
    • because, in the meantime, sales in the physical media market (CD, vinyl) have collapsed,
      • and streaming has not made up for loss of value.
  • Unsurprisingly, the artists who are most successful at making a living receive the quasi-totality of their revenue from the tours they do via concerts or festivals
    • (which incur high travel carbon footprint)
  • And those have a tendency to increase at an unchecked rate.
  • To attract the largest crowd possible, these artists demand
    • more and more top billings
    • with equally
      • increasing fees and
      • technical requirements.
  • example
    • Coldplay travels with no less than 2 kits of 32 articulated lorries on the road (for their “ecological” tour),
    • Rammstein accounts for
      • almost 100 articulated lorries
      • 7 cargo planes for their tours and
      • burns no less than 1000 litres of heating oil for their pyrotechnical effects at each concert (something the group proudly displays on social media).
• noteworthy
  • due to loss of product sales, touring and concerts is the only way musicians can make money, and that comes at high carbon emission cost

• for: carbon emissions - culture, carbon emissions - cultural sector, carbon footprint - culture,

• paraphrase

• stats
  • for France
  • culture and leisure are the third reason for travel after work and shopping
  • watching movies at movie theatre alone is responsible for nearly one million tons of CO2 emissions
  • culture takes up 60% of all downloads on the internet, 80% if porn is included
  • tens of thousands of buildings such as auditoriums are depending on fossil fuels to operate
  • cultural events drive high carbon tourist industry:
    • account for 60% of revenue of hotels and restaurants at the Avignon Festival
    • Louvre's carbon footprint of 3.4 million tons of CO2 emissions are in large part due to air travel of tourists from around the globe

• Title
  • Is carbon tunnel vision real?

• author Martin Daniel

• This article introduces the concept of Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) as a way to validate if carbon tunnel vision is real

Biggest source of emissions of the elite: - yachts - private air transportation - multiple homes in different countries

// - luxury industries of: - private jets - luxury home real estate - yachts - are unsustainable - this irresponsible, unsustainable consumption is imperiling civilization itself

• Clear climate impact communication
• applied to grocery products
• clearly labelled with their respective = carbon footprints

= creative carbon footprint labeling gamifies Paris Agreement - grocery story that did an experiment - opened a test popup grocery store in the retail district of Stockholm - where all grocery items were labeled with its carbon footprint - customers were issues CO2e currency - using IPCC guideline that - weekly grocery shop carbon footprint < 18.9 kg CO2e to be aligned with Paris Agreement - customers must stay under 18.9 kg CO2e

The complexity, as the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine of war is that it is yet another feedback loop reinforcing the impact of the hyperobject. From a climate change perspective, war has the highest carbon footprint of all because it is actually the willful distruction of purpose-made human cultural objects that each have an embedded energy cost. Hence war requires the construction of offensive and defensive weapons and equipment, as well as munitions, whose sole purpose is destruction. This comes at its own embedded energy cost and the destruction of human lives and human infrastructure is also prematurely ending the human and material lifetimes of living beings and objects respectively, each of which required high energy cost to bring into existence. It also takes enormous energy resources to maintain armies.

Climate change impacts of fertilizer production

Harari makes some excellent points here. Huge funds originally allocated to fighting climate change and the other anthropocene crisis will be diverted to military spending. Climate change, biodiversity, etc will lose. Only the military industrial complex will win.

Remember that the military industry is unique. It's only purpose is to consume raw materials and capacity in order to destroy. What is the carbon footprint of a bomb or a bullet?

Davies, A., Seaton, A., Tonooka, C., & White, J. (2021). Covid-19, online workshops, and the future of intellectual exchange. Rethinking History, 25(2), 224–241. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642529.2021.1934290

To do list going forward as suggested by Bethany Nowviskie.

1. more effective communication
2. foster collaborations
3. find nobility in metadata enhancement, project maintenance & forward migration
4. more agendas of empathy
5. greater attention to matters of accessibility, minimal c computing (not sure what this is exactly!!)
6. Libraries - need robust discourse around ephemerality. ( this is the concept of things being transitory, existing only briefly.)
7. attend to the environmental & human cost of DH : CARBON FOOTPRINT , PRICE TAG
8. bring technological savvy & deep historical conscience into the politics of 21st century.
9. Amplify our voices