Green Car

Wangari Maathai

"Activities that devastate the environment and societies continue unabated.
Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so
that humanity stops threatening its life-support system."

Nobel peace laureate Wangari Maathai on the environment-threatening
impact of human activity.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude at The Gates

The husband-and-wife team created "The Gates, Central Park, New York,
1979-2005" as a democratic installation. No one can own the work, no one
must pay to see it, and everyone who visits "The Gates" will own the experience.

What about the environmental impact of their project?

Roses Are Organic, Violets Are Blue

Easter Island Monuments of Our Time

Two friends discussing the book Collapse by Jared Diamond at a cafe.

Jared Diamond, author of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

In the book, Diamond describes societies that perished due to climate change and deforestation. Easter Island is one of them. A competition between chiefs to erect the large stone statues led them to cut down every tree on the island to build rollers for moving and raising the statues. The island ecosystem was wrecked. As the soil became infertile, and, with no big logs left to build ocean-going canoes, the islanders had no means of escape. They ate their land birds to extinction, and then they starved and fought one another and cannibalism resulted...