Entrepreneurial Activism with Alf Orpen
Alf Orpen-click on his image for the webinar link
Recording of the webinar that took place on May 20, 2009 with Alf Orpen.
Archive for May, 2009
Entrepreneurial Activism with Alf Orpen
Chris Jordan’s Photos-Mass Consumption
Finding meaning in global mass phenomena can be difficult because the phenomena themselves are invisible,’
Photographic artist Chris Jordan’s work aims to help people comprehend the bewildering statistical numbers that document the world’s pollution & consumption problems.
Says Chris: ‘
spread across the earth in millions of separate places. There is no Mount Everest of waste that we can make a pilgrimage to and
behold the sobering aggregate of our discarded stuff, seeing and feeling it viscerally with our senses.
Instead, we are stuck with trying to comprehend the gravity of these phenomena through the anaesthetizing and emotionally
barren language of statistics. Sociologists tell us that the human mind cannot meaningfully grasp numbers higher than a few
thousand; yet every day we read of mass phenomena characterized by numbers in the millions, billions, even trillions.
(Writing from the ONE Group newsletter)
