THE SECULAR RELIGION.
Going Green is not just a means of conservation, but an international lifestyle.
Green is an option for food, housing, clothing, occupation : all can be conformed
to this ideology; to be followed religiously.
Portraits.
Here we see a collection of members of the Secular Religion.
[Photography. 20"x24"]
Holy Water.
"Organic H2O" - The most ideal Green water available. Label: "FRESH non-municipal
tap, distilled, deionized, reverse osmosis confined aquifer water containing relative
proportions of mineral and trace elements at a pH of 7.4 to 7.6, collected by borehole
tapping an underground formation then filtered by granular activated carbon, metallic
alloy, microporous ceramic, carbon block resin, and ultrafiltration membranes producing
the same quality of water that flows naturally to the surface of the earth. Glass made
from curbside recycling programs."
[Mixed Media. Glass bottles, water, label. 9"x4"]
Doctrine.
The Three Testiments of the religion, authored by Al Gore: "An Inconvenient Truth: The
Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It," "Earth in the
Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit," and the final chapter "Earth in the Balance:
Forging a New Common Purpose."
[Mixed Media. Books, Bookmark. 9"x7"x5"]
Sacred Calendar.
A full 365 day calendar, noting all the secular holidays of the year. Featuring highlights:
Earth Hour, Earth Day, Arbor Day, Smokey the Bear's Birthday, and International Day for
Biological Diversity.
[Paper and Ink. 42"x56"]
Adornments.
Various jewelry featuring secular iconography: recycling symbols and globes.
[Mixed Media. Rosary from glass beads and silver. 17"x2"]
Ritual Dance.
A video documentation featuring the primary dance moves of the seculars which are
subdivided into ceremonial, common, sport, and, game. These moves have the goal of
conserving oxygen during performance, and minimal movement to preserve the ground
below.
[Video. 0.5.00']
Daily Allowances.
Knowing which items for daily use are approved by the Seculars are easily marked with the
organization's symbol, "Energy Star." Here is a collection of items that are approved based
on their low energy allowances; which produce lower carbon emissions.
[Matchboxes with EnergyStar logo. 3"x3"]
Secular Laws.
Engraved permanently in recycled wood, we see the primary law of the secular religion: The
Law of Carbon Footprint. Stated as : "The amount of carbon dioxide, or its equivalent of
other green house gases, emitted as a subset of the ecological footprint and of the more
comprehensive Life Cycle Assessment. An individual, nation, or organization's carbon
footprint can be measured by undertaking a green house gas emissions assessment, which
once is known, a strategy can be devised to reduce it, by technological developments, better
process and product management, changed Green Public or Private Procurement, Carbon
capture, and/or consumption strategies."
[Engraved Wood. 12"x12"]
Ex-Arsonist, saved 20,000 trees by not burning them down.
Saves 0.3 kWh by boiling water in a carcinogen-rich microwave, rather than a gas stove.
In reading two words on paper, twenty milligrams of CO2 is emitted, so she has vowed to never read again.
Saved a dozen trees by eliminating the population of beavers in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin.
Instead of commuting to a weekly farmer's market, she houses a farmer in her guest house to cultivate herbs in her backyard.
Stopped eating sugars, beans, cabbage, brussels sprouts, broccoli, asparagus, milk products, onions, artichokes, pears, and wheat -- to acclimate her body to refrain from passing gas into the atmosphere.
Saved 0.706 CO2 emissions by spending eleven days on a trans-Atlantic boat trip.
