As global warming is at the top of the agenda, world leaders are asked to act immediately, from forced recycling to carbon offsetting and celebrities launching a 10-year campaign to make environmentally friendly living fashionable. Are these efforts really improving the environment? What is eco-friendly living? When we live in a period where the worst climate disaster is about to happen, how can we live the ultimate green lifestyle? Extreme Green Guerilla, Michiko Nitta’s graduation project at RCA, Design Interactions, brings the current green lifestyle to the extreme. Her “manifesto” looks at three important areas of our daily life: communication, food and death. The extreme guerilla adapts from a network of amateur self-sustaining people who have shortened their lifespan to sustain the ultimate green lifestyle. Whilst going to extreme lengths to protect the environment, they try to enjoy a decadent quality of life by utilizing urban waste and biosystem. This consists of embracing emerging technology to develop the ultimate green solution. They try to avoid being tied to big corporations and using electronic devices to send emails and SMS. E.G.G. are also against conventional posting service, as it leaves a great CO2 footprint. Instead, they resort to A.M.S., the “Animal… (more)
(Posted by Regine Debatty in Sustainable Design at 11:44 AM)