Green Daily

For you rebel-types out there, hell-bent on sticking to the man by adding your tag to pieces of public property, here's a greener way to take down the establishment: green graffiti. Created by street artist Edina Tokodi, these guerrilla moss installations have apparently been popping up all over Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Says Tokodi:

"I think that our distance from nature is already a cliché. City dwellers often have no relationship with animals or greenery. As a public artist I feel a sense of duty to draw attention to deficiencies in our everyday life. As a cultivator of eco-urban sensitivity, I usually go back to the sites to visit my "plants" or "moss", sometimes to repair them a bit, but nothing more generally as they tend to get enough water from the air, condensation, and rain - especially in certain seasons. I also like to let them live by themselves."

Sure, it's a little pretentious -- but then again, so is Williamsburg. The point is, Tokodi is drawing attention to the environment in the most unexpected places, hoping that if "everyone had a garden of their own to cultivate, we would have a much more balanced relation to our territories." And, pretentious or not, balance is what it's all about.