Digital Carbon Footprint Inquiry
Welcome to the Digital Carbon Footprint Inquiry. At the Barnard DHC, we are commited to sustainability. We
want to understanding harm to our environment not from the perspective of individual responsibility but by
practicing on being in right relationship to our home and each other
(adrienne maree brown, 24). We
present this tool not to evaluate or critique the impacts of our digital use, but rather to learn and
inspire critical reflection and relationships that can get us closer to the 'right relationship'
width the natural world that adrienne maree brown describes with centering collaboration between ecosystems
and lifeforms.
How about the instances of natural networks that survive and grow despite our human impact? What can we learn from these sustainable relationships and connections? Might we embody them and care for them? Working within adrienne maree brown’s emergent strategy framework, we present this tool as a way to attend to the small actions implicated in these larger networks and the change that is created by this interconnectedness
Let’s grow slow and strategically like a mushroom. Build symbiotic relationships like the mycorrhizae, a fungus and plant that trades organic molecules and nutrients.
Let’s care for whales, whose breathing “is as crucial to our own breathing and the carbon cycle of the planet” (Undrowned, Alex Pauline Gumbs).
In this inquiry, we invite you to measure and reduce and repair harm by shrinking your digital carbon footprint. As you consider your digital activity, we present your digital carbon footprint, in addition to your digital water and land footprint, other environmental resources that are impacted by our digital lives.