Three re-posts from Worldchanging caught ClearSky’s eye this week.  While we can’t see our greenhouse gas emissions, artists and writers continue to use their disciplines to reveal the impacts of our energy use.

Photograph: Black River Productions/Mitch Epstein, 2009

Artist Mitch Epstein:  Altamont Pass wind farm, California, 2007.  He also photographed many of the things that the Earth’s most energy-profligate nation does with that power – such as build golf courses in the desert.

Writer Eric De Place:  Equates US CO2 emissions to a BP-size leak every 3 hours.  BP’s Gulf oil spill is about five million barrels of oil total.  Compared to what the United States emits in greenhouse gas emissions, our carbon pollution is so huge that it’s like taking that five million barrels of oil, burning every drop of it, and then doing the same thing again every 2 hours and 41 minutes.

Photograph: Screenshot from Save Power

An advertising campaign used by the New South Wales government:  Utilizes the black balloon image, one black balloon contains 50g of carbon pollution, as part of it’s Save Power advertising campaign.

While ClearSky Climate Solutions found these posts on Worldchanging (see linked photos), Worldchanging found the original posts on We Make Money Not Art, Sightlines Daily Score, and Save Power.