Aaron Antrim’s blog

Building Blocks, 2007
16 feet tall x 32 feet wide in eighteen square panels, each sized 62×62″. Click on any image to see a larger view.

Depicts nine million wooden ABC blocks, equal to the number of American children with no health insurance coverage in 2007.

Partial zoom:

Detail at actual size:

Toothpicks, 2007

Depicts 8 million toothpicks, equal to the number of trees harvested in the US every month to make the paper for mail order catalogs.

(This one reminds me of Green Dimes, a service to help you reduce the amount of junk mail you receive. It’s ridiculous you have to pay for something like this, though. A better option might be to utilize the Mail Preference Service.)

More at Chris Jordan Photographic Arts.

aaron :: Jul.07.2007 :: Sustainability :: No Comments »

The Myrletown blog calls their list “The most comprehensive list of Humboldt blogs ever published.” I noticed Green Wheels made it in there, even though we don’t have an actual blog — yet.

aaron :: Jul.06.2007 :: Humboldt County :: Comments Off

I don’t expect friends to check my blog every two day to see if there are changes. But I know when their blogs are updated. How? Software gathers all the latest posts from blogs I subscribe to and manages it for me automatically. Here are my news feeds and blogs in Google Reader.

If you want to know how this works, and how you can set this up, see this video, RSS Feeds in Plain English.

aaron :: Jun.29.2007 :: Information tech :: No Comments »

“Would someone please tell the Sierra Club Exec Board that the idea of an “environmentally friendly car” makes as much sense as a “non-violent death penalty?” While the vast majority of those concerned with global warming consider reduction of unneeded production to be at the core of a sane policy, the Sierra Club has endorsed a plan that includes virtually no role for conservation.”

from the article Consume Like There’s No Tomorrow

aaron :: Jun.21.2007 :: Sustainability :: No Comments »

I had a piece called “Beware of Hybrid Hype” appear in the Eureka Reporter on Tuesday.  The previous link is to an unabbreviated version at the Green Wheels website.

aaron :: Mar.29.2007 :: Business, Sustainability :: 2 Comments »