Words About Things

The Danger Global Warming Project was set up to draw attention to the problem of Global Warming through the medium or art. It was organized by the multi-media art collective Blacksmoke in collaboration with Greenpeace. Artists were asked to incorporate Greenpeace’s black and yellow warning tape motif into artworks of any form they saw fit.

Paintings, videos and installations have been submitted from around the world. Those who have taken part range from unknown artists to big names like Philippe Starck, Bruce LaBruce and Billy Childish. Some of the artworks are great, others less so. The main thing however is that they make you think and hopefully they have enough of an effect on you to stick in your mind long after you see them.

DANGER GLOBAL WARMING (recycled by Utah Saints) from Danger Global Warming Project.

A Dutch farmer is happier than a pig in the proverbial after figuring out a novel way to produce enough energy to run his farm. John Horrevorts from Sterksel farms pigs so he has access to an infinite amount of porcine doo-doo with which he can create enough eco friendly electricity to actually sell some back to the grid.

Horrevorts has a biogas plant that converts the piggy waste into energy without creating pollution or requiring finite resources. The process also reduces methane emissions or, more accurately, uses them for good. The slurry is collected and bacteria is added which causes gas to be emitted which is then converted to electricity.

Although the biogas plant was expensive to set up it will eventually pay for itself. The initial outgoings will be offset by the reduced bill payments and Horrevorts may be able to earn money if he creates enough gas. He also gets a warm feeling inside knowing that he is not contributing to the international global warming problem.