Carbon Catching Library (2019-2023)
Soheila Esfahani, Satoshi Ikeda, & Luke Johnson, as part of Speculative Energy Futures
documentation by Satoshi Ikeda
Soheila Esfahani, Satoshi Ikeda, & Luke Johnson, as part of Speculative Energy Futures
documentation by Satoshi Ikeda
Global Warming is with us.
Catastrophic climate events and rising sea levels are causing loss of lives, destruction of homes and infrastructure, and the mass migration of climate refugees. Zero emission is not enough to stop climate catastrophe. The humans released carbon into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels over the past two hundred years. In order to stop global warming and reverse it into global cooling, we need to catch carbon through photosynthesis. Carbon Catching Library promotes climate awareness and builds our capacity to grow plants because climate literacy and plant literacy are vital components in our path toward ecological and environmental harmony on the earth.
Carbon Catching Library is the place of propagating and sharing plants. Please bring excess plants or cutting of your houseplants to share with others. Please check out and adopt plants from the library and enjoy creating your life with plants. Please spread Carbon Catching Library in your home, workplace, and any public space available. Please enjoy the life surrounded by live plants and learn how to live with them. When spring comes, please bring your activities outdoors. Please plant trees, shrubs, and ground covering plants so that our towns become Carbon Catching Towns.
A reading list:
How Not to Kill Your Houseplants, Veronica Peerless
New Plant Parent, Darryl Cheng
Little Book of House Plants and Other Greenery, Emma Sibley
Practical Houseplants Book, Zia Allaway & Fran Bailey
Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben
Plants have so much to give us, all we have to do is ask, Mary Siisip Geniusz
Transition Handbook, Rob Hopkins
Climate – A New Story, Charles Eisenstein
Sacred Economics, Charles Eisenstein
Drawdown, Paul Hawken, editor
This is not a drill: An extinction rebellion handbook
Permaculture Design, Aranya
Permaculture for the rest of us, Jenni Blackmore
Gaia’s Garden, Toby Hemenway
The Permaculture City, Toby Hemenway
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This project is part of Speculative Energy Futures, a collaborative, multi-year research-creation project that brings together artists, activists, scientists, engineers, policy makers, and social science and energy humanities researchers to investigate the challenges and potentials of energy transition through artistic means. Through collaborative work, Speculative Energy Futures participants will produce a series of art exhibitions, dynamic publications, and other artistic outputs that bring attention to the social and cultural impacts of energy transition.
For more information on Speculative Energy Futures, and to see a full list of research partners, see the project website: https://www.justpowers.ca/projects/speculative-energy-futures/
Catastrophic climate events and rising sea levels are causing loss of lives, destruction of homes and infrastructure, and the mass migration of climate refugees. Zero emission is not enough to stop climate catastrophe. The humans released carbon into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels over the past two hundred years. In order to stop global warming and reverse it into global cooling, we need to catch carbon through photosynthesis. Carbon Catching Library promotes climate awareness and builds our capacity to grow plants because climate literacy and plant literacy are vital components in our path toward ecological and environmental harmony on the earth.
Carbon Catching Library is the place of propagating and sharing plants. Please bring excess plants or cutting of your houseplants to share with others. Please check out and adopt plants from the library and enjoy creating your life with plants. Please spread Carbon Catching Library in your home, workplace, and any public space available. Please enjoy the life surrounded by live plants and learn how to live with them. When spring comes, please bring your activities outdoors. Please plant trees, shrubs, and ground covering plants so that our towns become Carbon Catching Towns.
A reading list:
How Not to Kill Your Houseplants, Veronica Peerless
New Plant Parent, Darryl Cheng
Little Book of House Plants and Other Greenery, Emma Sibley
Practical Houseplants Book, Zia Allaway & Fran Bailey
Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben
Plants have so much to give us, all we have to do is ask, Mary Siisip Geniusz
Transition Handbook, Rob Hopkins
Climate – A New Story, Charles Eisenstein
Sacred Economics, Charles Eisenstein
Drawdown, Paul Hawken, editor
This is not a drill: An extinction rebellion handbook
Permaculture Design, Aranya
Permaculture for the rest of us, Jenni Blackmore
Gaia’s Garden, Toby Hemenway
The Permaculture City, Toby Hemenway
***
This project is part of Speculative Energy Futures, a collaborative, multi-year research-creation project that brings together artists, activists, scientists, engineers, policy makers, and social science and energy humanities researchers to investigate the challenges and potentials of energy transition through artistic means. Through collaborative work, Speculative Energy Futures participants will produce a series of art exhibitions, dynamic publications, and other artistic outputs that bring attention to the social and cultural impacts of energy transition.
For more information on Speculative Energy Futures, and to see a full list of research partners, see the project website: https://www.justpowers.ca/projects/speculative-energy-futures/
