Monday, May 9, 2011

Well hello again

It has been a very long time since I have posted to this blog. Since that time the Styro-city has been dismantled and the photographs well recieved. I intend to rebuild the city differently, once more so that it was be displayed as a completed art piece.

The previous city was constructed in a one-sided fashion for the purpose of lighting. I hope to take this project another step forward so that it may reach more people. I found a coffee shop in my hometown that uses Greenware cups for their cold beverages and ceramic mugs for hot beverages for patrons who are sitting. I also learned that Rochester Institute of Technology recently, in the past few years, began using compostable food trays and cutlery so that all of the unwanted contents could be dumped into the trash and then composted. Since the beginning of this project, Sun Chips also released a compostable chip bag.

While too many coffee shops are still using Styrofoam, the presence of environmentally friendly food containers is increasing. This makes me very hopeful that change is coming fast. It also assures me that there are increasingly more people out there who care about the environment.