> anymore. But I still fly about once a month, with two or three long-hauls a > year. What can I do? Stop showing art? Shift my practice from installation
I would assume that the shorter flights are more destructive than the "long-hauls" as it takes a lot more energy to put a plane in the sky than it does to keep it there. As I mentioned before, living on an island, split between tectonic plates, doesn't leave me a lot of options but when given the opportunity, I really enjoy traveling by land. I like taking trains across France or the bus from Boston to Montreal. Even the 10 hour (each way) train trip from Montreal to New York (driving takes 6 - 7 hours) was a treat. Looking out the window at the tops of the clouds gets really boring after a while. But I really do wonder how these forms of travel compare when the number of passengers is also figured into the mix. If you compare a plane from Boston to Montreal to the bus, is there really a significant difference in fossil fuel consumption when you also figure in the fact that it might take 3 or 4 buses to transport a single flight's passengers as well and all of the fuel used to maintain the roads? > to online work only – to some extent I have done that already? Quit all my > responsibilities that require me to be physically present somewhere else? > > What is the carbon footprint of using Skype? Massive server-farms probably > have footprints similar to airports. Has anyone done a comparative analysis > on this? > > Regards > > Simon > > Simon Biggs > Research Professor > edinburgh college of art > s.bi...@eca.ac.uk > www.eca.ac.uk > www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ > > si...@littlepig.org.uk > www.littlepig.org.uk > AIM/Skype: simonbiggsuk > > > ________________________________ > From: Pall Thayer <pallt...@gmail.com> > Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity > <netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org> > Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:41:03 +0000 > To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity > <netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org> > Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] We won't fly for art : Take the Pledge > > Being stuck on an island in the middle of the North Atlantic makes > this one a bit tough for me too. I will however promise never to sail > for art as I've never found the ocean's sense of balance particularly > appealing. > > best r. > Pall Thayer > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Michael Szpakowski <szp...@yahoo.com> > wrote: >> >> Hi Ruth >> pretty much my every breath is dedicated to trying to blag an art related >> trip outside Europe so I don't think I can do this one, or at least not >> until I've pulled that off. However I am happy to promise *never, ever* to >> drive anywhere in pursuit of my art... >> warmest wishes >> michael >> >> >> --- On Sun, 4/12/09, Ruth Catlow <ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org> wrote: >> >> >> From: Ruth Catlow <ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org> >> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] We won't fly for art : Take the Pledge >> To: "NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity" >> <netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org> >> Date: Sunday, April 12, 2009, 6:07 PM >> >> >> Thanks Karen and Dimos for joining us so quickly and for setting longer >> pledge deadlines; ) >> >> For those who'd like to join us but have tickets already booked for >> art-flights before 26th April, check out the comments:- >> - Karen's pledge has a 10th May as its deadline >> http://www.pledgebank.com/wewontflyforart2 >> - Dimos Dimitriou has 15th May http://www.pledgebank.com/wewontflyforart3 >> >> Cheers >> Ruth >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Ruth Catlow <ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org> >> Reply-To: ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org, NetBehaviour for networked >> distributed creativity <netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org> >> To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity >> <netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org> >> Subject: [NetBehaviour] We won't fly for art : Take the Pledge >> Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:16:35 +0100 >> >> We won't fly for art for six months >> but only if 6 others will do the same AND replicate this pledge by 26th >> April 2009 >> http://www.pledgebank.com/wewontflyforart >> - Marc and Ruth >> >> >> We will not take an aeroplane for the sake of art. For the next 6 months >> we will find other ways to visit and participate in exhibitions, fairs, >> conferences, meetings, residencies. We will not fly for inspiration, nor to >> appreciate, buy or sell art. >> >> But only if 6 others will do the same AND replicate this pledge. >> >> This pledge is designed for exponential growth so if you persuade another >> 6 people to do the same, within a year you could be one of millions of >> people changing the way the artworld works. So sign up, create a replica >> pledge and share your own experiences, observations and arguments towards >> reducing art flights. Post a link to it in the comment box so others can >> find their way to it. >> >> This is a public art experiment in the de-escalation of carbon-fuelled, >> high altitude, high-velocity, global art careering. For six months we choose >> to cover less physical distance, move more slowly between destinations, to >> look futureward with more attention to the view from the ground and the >> network, for ways to connect with others around the world. >> >> Who can sign up to this pledge? Any individual involved in the arts: >> artist (in the broadest sense), curator, art administrator, art appreciator, >> gallerist, art critic, art historian, art academic, art technician, art >> security, art transporter etc. Whether you currently fly for art 50 times a >> year or never, your engagement will change things by making your position in >> the artworld visible and by offering an alternative perspective. If you work >> with others you may need to completely revise your schedules and budgets and >> lobby for the right not to fly. >> >> This is to light the blue touch paper of Gustave Metzger's Reduce Art >> Flights campaign using the generative and viral capabilities of social >> networks. We want to know more about the impact of air-flight on the >> artworld (and beyond). We intuit that abstaining from air flight will >> motivate and enable people (with more time, money, energy and attention) to >> relate differently to their own local cultures and to connect more >> imaginatively to other cultures. >> >> Inspirations and Observations >> >> Artwork- 'Reduce Art Flights' by Gustave Metzger, reviewed here >> http://tinyurl.com/cnv44r >> >> Sustainable Development- Social science on the environmental impact of >> economic growth >> 'Why Politicians Dare Not Limit Economic Growth' by Tim Jackson >> http://tinyurl.com/6784zw >> >> Investigative Journalism - What can we do to stop climate change? >> Heat (2006) by George Monbiot, summarised and reviewed here >> http://tinyurl.com/devyax >> Monbiot's Guardian blog http://tinyurl.com/dcew6o >> >> Plane Stupid Campaign- 'bringing the aviation industry down to earth' >> http://www.planestupid.com/ >> >> More Art and Ecology Links- http://delicious.com/ruthc/ecology+art >> >> DIWOlogue- http://diwologue.net/blog/?p=38 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> -----Inline Attachment Follows----- >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > > > > -- > ***************************** > Pall Thayer > artist > http://www.this.is/pallit > ***************************** > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number > SC009201 > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- ***************************** Pall Thayer artist http://www.this.is/pallit ***************************** _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
