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World's biggest art installation will call for climate action
Over the next week, a project called 350 EARTH will put together the planet’s largest work of art, visible from space. Want to lend your body to the cause?
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Ask Umbra event tonight with The Yes Men and No Impact Man in NYC
If you hearing a voice in your head saying, "Charge!" your inner superhero may be looking for an outlet.
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Paint-and-seed grenade-launcher aims to bomb the blight out of America
Bomb the Blight founder Tommy Wilson is the latest to join the ranks of those pimping the pavement, and he's armed with seed bombs, paint, and an air cannon.
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Ruin porn, exurban sprawl edition
A while back, Sarah noted the proliferation of Detroit "ruin porn" -- images and films that depict abandoned houses, crumbling factories, and desperately unemployed masses without showing that intelligent life does, in fact, remain in the city. There's something of a parallel trend for sprawl: illustrations of the overbuilt, over-mortgaged empty subdivisions littering exurban America. The implied message is quite often that these places were built carelessly and are unaffordable, unsustainable, and damn near unlovable.
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Anti-advertising billboard showcases the clean air around it
This billboard is highlighting the good job done by the Clean Air Act while also giving instant weather updates.
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Ask Umbra's Book Club announces Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom' is next book
Ask Umbra decides to take on fiction and the Oprah Book Club in this month's Ask Umbra Book Club selection. Read about the book and find out when the conversation begins here!
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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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French artist turns 'garbage with talent' into beautiful lighting [PHOTOS]
Parisian craftsman and artist "Garbage" refurbishes old, seemingly mismatched objects like kitchenware, scales, toasters into fantastic lamps.
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Postcards from the future
Have a hard time imagining a world reshaped by climate change? These riveting illustrations of future London give a glimpse.
