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Watch Sylvia Earle, Fabien Cousteau, Van Jones, others explore plastic pollution and the ocean
Activists, innovators, explorers, and artists are gathering in Los Angeles on November 6 for TEDx:GreatPacificGarbagePatch. It's featuring a day jam-packed with videos and live speeches from a gyre's-worth of famous ocean-lovers and plastic-pollution-haters. Watch the livestream here all day Saturday!
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Turning energy savings in London into solar for Africa
What if turning off the lights in your home or office could help people in Africa turn theirs on?
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The greenest party schools
Which colleges make the green grade and know how to party?
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Oscar-nominated documentary 'Waste Land' explores the world's largest garbage dump
Fascinating trash-art documentary Waste Land netted an Oscar nomination today for Best Documentary (Feature). Read our interview with the director!
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Fixing climate change with a video game
If you're game to save (or set aflame) the planet from the threat of climate change, you should give the eerily realistic computer game, Fate of the World, a spin.
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Reducing urban water use around the world with compost toilets
Theodore Roosevelt once noted "civilized people ought to know how to dispose of the sewage in some other way than putting it into the drinking water." But that's what we're still doing every day.
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What does the election mean for population and reproductive rights?
Congress will have a lot more anti-choicers. Expect attacks on international family-planning programs and a big fight over birth-control coverage.
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Ask Umbra’s Book Club: Live chat with Americana author Kurt B. Reighley
Are you embracing a simpler life, one focused on community and sustainability? Then check out our live chat with author Kurt B. Reighley about this phenomenon, which he describes in his book United States of Americana: A field guide to the new American Roots movement!
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The future we want
It's tough to make compelling drama out of a happy-green-prosperous future -- even if that's where we want to live.
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Ask Umbra’s Book Club: Get ready to talk about the new American roots movement
We�re hosting a live chat with author Kurt B. Reighley, KEXP�s DJ El Toro. Send in questions about the American roots movement for the chance to win a book copy!
