But what if we saw the Internet as a landscape? A rolling valley, a dense forest, a vast ocean. (Maybe that iconic Windows desktop background of a green hill was right all along.) When we see the Internet as a landscape, or even a living being, our perception changes. We become more conscious of how we behave, how we treat it and the things in it. ... See more

The Internet is not an autonomous being. Its growing energy use is the consequence of actual decisions made by software developers, web designers, marketing departments, publishers and internet users. With a lightweight, off-the-grid solar-powered website, we want to show that other decisions can be made.

We are in a period which I think is dominated by two great cultural signifiers. An analog system that belonged to our parents, which has been shot full of holes. It is the symbol of the ruined castle. "Gothic High-Tech." The ruins of the unsustainable. And the other symbol is the favela slum, "Favela Chic," the informalized, illegalized, heavily ne... See more