Sustainability
As an artist, a creator, and a human being, I am committed to addressing my own respective impact on our planet. The only way we'll solve our crisis is if we each take responsibility for addressing our collective climate challenge. Listed below are some resources to help you make practical steps towards addressing our individual and combined impact on our planet.
To know where to begin involves knowing where we are. Let's break this down categorically.
In the commercial sector, emissions are primarily driven by the energy required to maintain infrastructure and the supply chains of global trade.
The "average" person produces 6.3 tonnes of GHG emissions annually, but this rises to 110 tonnes for high-income individuals. Source: WRI, "The Most Impactful Things You Can Do for the Climate," (April 2025).
These behaviors focus on the culture of consumption and the "embodied carbon" in the products we buy.
Often overlooked, Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry (LULUCF) is a critical missing piece in addressing climate change.
I can't tell you what to do, and how you address climate change will be personal to your life. But what I can tell you is that we're way beyond simply taking re-usable bags to the grocery store and using LED light bulbs. You will have to do some honest soul-searching about what kind of changes you can make to reduce your personal impact on our home. But one thing is for certain, is that the volume of change must be multi-faceted and well-diversified.
The philosopher Epictetus makes the claim that everyone makes their choices of right and wrong based upon their level of wisdom and ignorance. Let the truth of all of the aforementioned stats sink in, let the enormity of the challenge we face touch your heart and your mind, and from that space make the changes that feel right to you and your family. Make incremental, manageable changes; and keep adding to your change in behavior over time.
Perhaps the simplest (but perhaps the hardest) thing you can do is to buy less, use less, consume less, desire less — easy to do, but hard to execute when it comes to overcoming our innate desire for more and more things. Buy less things. Eat less meat. Drive less. Watch less online media. Use your electronic devices less. When we get swept up in wanting, in desiring, in accumulating and chasing after experiences and things, that's what perpetuates our climate challenge.
If we're going to tackle climate change, it must be multi-faceted and comprehensive. If you feel overwhelmed and unsure of what to do, here's a list of things that you CAN do while making a bigger impact beyond just bringing your re-usable bags to the grocery store.
One of my bigger priorities is addressing the carbon emissions that are a result of the energy used to produce this program and serve up the digital assets from the cloud. It's for this reason that The Relay Station regularly contributes these and other high-rated non-profit organizations dedicated to dramatically reducing the carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, and in our oceans, lakes, and rivers.
In addition to what we already donate to these and other charities, 50% of all donations that come in to support The Relay Station are re-directed to high-ranking and highly effective charities that are dedicated to tackling the challenge of climate change.
