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Ceramics and carbon dioxide 1
Carbon accounting and accountability: a rolling theme for a ceramicist making the 'non essential' and 'more than the essential'. Not a new consideration for a maker by any stretch, but one that might now be regarded as integral to making as any other material use in 2009. What one does each year - those reduction and offset actions, local, immediate and geographically removed - needs refining and enhancing. At the minimum, can one's total studio practice, integrated with the rest of daily life, be truly carbon neutral?
. Emissions calculation: one assessment amongst many: Greenfleet
. One of the most erudite pieces of recent Australian writing on the broader subject, with much useful background explanation: Tim Flannery