Is this blog worth it?

The environmental impacts of running the July MCA exhibition In The Balance: Art for a Changing World was considered and documented by participating artist, Lucus Ihlein for his work Environmental Audit. The exhibition, whose participants focused on environmental concerns, essentially questions the value of such an event when the environmental cost of running it may outweigh the awareness it creates in the first place. Ihlein, who admits is not a professional environmental auditor, was not presenting true statistics or precise analytical assessments of the environmental impacts of the exhibition but it does successfully force the exhibition and the viewers to question itself, ultimately asking “was it worth it?”. Within the audit Ihlein includes his own workings such as the resources, time and overall value of the project. I find this continuous doubling back fascinating. ‘Here is my work, was it worth it, was considering whether it was worth it worth it…’
The Environmental Audit project contains several different parts: the experience of the audit, the prints he made of his findings and his blog. Blogs play a big role in a lot of environmental activist’s work. It is used by Lucas and Diego to regularly document and discuss the progress of their gardens growth and impact. I realize blogs enable art to be opened up to involve people in a much greater social space, however I find the relationship somewhat problematic. I wonder if this stems from doubts in relation to the way online conversing has affected communication OR if the relationship between environmental activism and the computer is somewhat hypocritical. I do feel that it is something worth exploring further.