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How digital tools complicate simple environmental practices

I started growing my own food to reduce my impact but I'm constantly checking weather apps and soil sensors and it feels more like managing technology than connecting with nature.

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What we've seen

Technology intended to support sustainable practices can transform direct experience into mediated data, changing the very nature of what we sought.

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“Where Are You with Technology and climate?”

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