Robin Garwood, Wishing Well, Mill City Museum Train Shed, Northern Spark 2016. Photo: Max Haynes.
Robin Garwood, Wishing Well, Mill City Museum Train Shed, Northern Spark 2016. Photo: Max Haynes.
Robin Garwood, Wishing Well, Mill City Museum Train Shed, Northern Spark 2016. Photo: Max Haynes.
Wishing Well. Image: courtesy the artist.
Can we leave money in the ground? We have to, if we’re going to survive. Fossil fuel companies already own 5 times more carbon than we can burn without causing catastrophic climate change. Coal, oil and gas have already been turned into money—money that we must leave in the ground.
Come to the Wishing Well to dig for treasure: real coins, where every cent equals 350 tons of the carbon that will be burned worldwide during Northern Spark. And then make your choice. Will you extract the money? Or will you leave it in the ground, as a wish for a future free of catastrophic climate change?
Robin Garwood is a Minneapolis-based activist, artist and musician who works for ecological wisdom, social and economic justice, grassroots democracy, and nonviolence through public policy and art.
View more photos from Wishing Well on the Northern Spark Flickr here!