NFT Digital Art Auction Supporting Open Digital Technology for Climate
DROPPING ON NIFTY GATEWAY:
March 20
featuring
Beeple
Refik Anadol
Sara Ludy
Mieke Marple
GMUNK
Kyle Gordon
Andres Reisinger
FVCKRENDER
Don’t miss this unique collection
The Social Alpha Foundation is presenting a selection of the most talented NFT Artists in the world who will auction 8 unique carbon net-negative nifties inspired by Earth and the climate crisis.
With support from RNDR, and hosted by Nifty Gateway, all proceeds will go to the Open Earth Foundation, a US-based research and deployment 501c3 nonprofit, raising funds to develop innovative open digital infrastructure for improved management of planet Earth —helping track transparently the global progress on the Paris Agreement to avoid the existential risk of climate change.
This is a
Carbon Net-Negative Auction
An NFT Art auction inspired around climate change should not have a net impact on the climate.
Thanks to a generous contribution from the RNDR network, each artist and artwork on this auction receives around 60 carbon offsets — totaling 500 CO2e tons of proven and unique credits of emission reductions for the entire auctions. These offsets are NFTs themselves provided by Creol.io, which sources from the Verra voluntary carbon offset registry. Specifically, this event support the Madre de Dios forest conservation project in Perú. Each unique carbon offset is pegged to the unique artwork in order to compensate the underlying emissions from the NFT minting. Artists will further commit to offset their historical NFT footprint to create a net positive climate impact.
Learn more at: RNDR | Creol.io
Watch the artists share their input on this climate collaboration. Directed by Alex Tyson.
The #CarbonDrop is a collaborative initiative!
We gathered a group of concerned artists, NGOs, companies and platforms working together to make a statement on climate change, and the role we can all have.
This fundraising drop is supported by…
…and the digital art work donated by these amazing artists:
Beeple
he makes a variety of art crap across a variety of media. some of it is ok, but a lot of it kind of blows ass. he’s working on making it suck less everyday though so bear with him... :)
Refik Anadol
media artist, director and pioneer in the aesthetics of data and machine intelligence. his AI data sculptures, encourage us to rethink our engagement with the physical world and the creative potential of machines.
GMUNK
visionary whose creativity and innovation span a diverse range of mediums. his work often centers around themes of identity, the subconscious, and our human connection to technology.
Sara Ludy
nature-inspired artist and composer. through her interdisciplinary practice, hybrid forms emerge from the confluence of nature, being, and simulation; questioning our relationship to immateriality and consciousness.
Kyle Gordon
award winning multidisciplinary artist, creative director, experiential designer, and entrepreneur currently residing in San Francisco. his work is heavily influenced by his love of music, organic patterns, contemporary art, life adventures, anime, and community.
Andres Reisinger
award winning visual artist / Forbes 30 under 30 / ADC Young Gun. Creating at the intersection of art, design, and direction, Andrés Reisinger bridges the imagined and the tangible.
MIEKE MARPLE
artist, writer, and activist living in San Francisco. she helped raise over a million and half dollars for Planned Parenthood LA and over a quarter million dollars for Critical Resistance through various charity art auctions.
FVCKRENDER
futuristic tech-digital artist self-taught creative working out of Vancouver. affinity for sharp architectural geometry and beaming future landscapes, his renders pay a dark homage to what may eventually reflect our very existence.
NFT from Beeple “Everydays: The First 5,000 Days”
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NFT and Climate Impact
CryptoArt and NFTs have an impact on climate. Every transaction on blockchain networks using a Proof-of-Work consensus protocol consumes significant amounts of electricity, linked to greenhouse gas emissions—the source of climate change. The minting of NFTs for this auction is done using the Ethereum network, whose single transactions may require up to 50 kWh of electricity (an amount that a large house consumes over 2 days). While it is a challenge to calculate the exact carbon footprint of a single Eth transaction, the impact is still relevant. A migration into a Proof-of-Stake protocol by Ethereum would significantly reduce the network's carbon footprint.
Learn more at: CleanCoins.io | Digiconomist.net | Carbon.fyi
NiftyGateway’s carbon adjustments
NiftyGateway has been conscious of the carbon impact of its NFTs. When an artist creates an edition, minting a limited amount of copies of an artwork, this translates into one NFT minting and Eth transaction per each artwork copy, which incrementally scales the underlying carbon impact. In order to address this, Nifty is adjusting its smart contract so that artwork editions require a single Ethereum transaction irrespective of how many NFT units are part of the edition. This will significantly reduce the carbon impact of the platform. Whilst this new adjustment will take effect within March or April 2021, we have decided to keep this auction to one single piece per artist in order to avoid the higher impact of editions. Each artwork is truly unique.
What we can all do on Climate Action
Carbon offsets can bring a tangible value in the fight against climate change, but are not the ultimate solution. Buying carbon offsets does not allow us to continue business-as-usual emitting activities in a sustainable way. The first important action we all can take around climate change is to be aware of our own impact (eg. measure your carbon footprint). Second, reduce our carbon footprint directly (eg. fly less, buy renewable energy for your home, use public transportation etc.). Carbon offsets make sense to neutralize the remaining impact, only after we’ve done all attainable actions to mitigate our carbon footprint.
Learn more: Simple actions on climate change | Corporate pillars to act on climate change | UN Carbon Offsets