and plastics. The plastics and metals in my lamp are part of 3 billion tons used annually for manufacturing building products and furniture. According to a 2010 Living Planet Report, at the current rate of comsumption, by 2050 we will be using 2.3 times the available resources on earth. 10+02: Energy Hogs Even further out to the building scale of 100 meters, we will see my office just off Union Square in New York City. Even though this building is a LEED CI Gold-certified space, a city-wide energy benchmarking tool shows that 64% of the energy used here is to power computers and lights and that the building consumes much more energy than many of its neighbors. 10+03: Toxic waste Now at 1,000 meters, we see my work neighborhood and the frantic traffic of lower Manhattan. Amid the cars are garbage trucks hauling away some of the estimated 600 million fluorescent bulbs that are thrown away each year in the U.S. The disposal of these bulbs, like the one used in my lamp, results in the release of 30,000 pounds of mercury, which is a persistent bio-accumulative toxin. 10+04: Air Pollution Then at 10,000 meters, we are shown the whole of New York City. My desk lamp is powered by one of NYC's power plants that is on average more than 30 years old. These plants aren't as efficient as newer ones and use up to 60% more fuel and produce more pollution. 10+06: Climate Change Finally, zooming out two