I made this digital mash-up for work to promote our “Cool IT” leader board where we rank the world’s biggest IT companies by their commitment to climate solutions, energy impact and political advocacy. (Google comes out on top!)

Didn’t end up using it, but I think it’s cool.

The keyboard is (cc) alfaneque

Born-again hippie

A couple of days ago I tweeted:

Starting at Greenpeace basically made complete my transformation into a complete commie, hippie, left-leaning bastard.

For a long time now, I - as so many do - have been searching for something bigger. A cause, a reason to live and work, something that I could disappear into, like an amoeba. Lose shape and colour, and fold amorphously into the form of another, larger cloud.

I wouldn’t have to think or decide anymore. It would give me all the answers. Everything would become singular and crystal clear. Absolute salvation.

Over the years I’ve flirted with different causes and different ideas. If you put all my blog posts on a chart you could probably map out, with total accuracy, my conversion from vapid, pop-culture junkie and hipster party girl, to activist (not that the former has completely left me).

I love Greenpeace, and I think the work we do is so important, but it is not the organization in which I have lost all body and form. Because I’ve realised I should never have searched for one cause, or one organization. What I was looking for, and what I have found, and what I can credit Greenpeace for having made my search complete, is an identity.

I am an activist. And an activist need not be restricted to one fight. An activist is an environmentalist today, and a feminist tomorrow. An activist is led by values, rather than causes. An activist is a hopeless idealist, with a brilliant vision of the world she wants to live in, and then acts every day, and with every step, in accordance to that ideal. For an activist, every act, no matter how mundane, is an act of creation.