Yikes. A Salon.com article, “Plastic Bags Are Killing Us”: All the plastic that has been made is still around in smaller and smaller pieces. Plastic doesn’t biodegrade. That means every plastic bag you’ve ever used in your entire life … still exists in some form, even fragmented bits, and will exist long after you’re dead. Troubling. Read the whole thing …
Running the Numbers
Wow. Photographer Chris Jordan has some sample images from his new exhibition online. He writes: This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My …