The Eco-Polymath

Thinking Green Outside of the White Cube.

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Bees in space: https://archive.org/stream/nasa_techdoc_19830025642/19830025642#page/n0/mode/2up

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Huffing on hives in Slovenia.

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“Honey Neustadt” (2006) Franz Hoefner & Harry Sachs

A model of a city filled with one million bees placed in Berlin-Mitte. The honey that was gathered from these bees was given away to residents.

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Defying Japan, Rancher Saves Fukushima’s Radioactive Cows

Angered by what he considers Japan’s efforts to sweep away the inconvenient truths of a nuclear disaster, a rancher returns to the no-man’s land near the devastated plant.

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Cut out the anxiety, and never till again.

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John Britt melt test

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http://www.fastonline.org/CD3WD_40/CD3WD/APPRTECH/G15SEE/EN/B961_5.HTM

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Three Decades of Conversations With Fire

An exhibition at Peters Valley School of Craft showcases work created over the last three decades in the school’s anagama kiln, which is valued for the unpredictability of its results.

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A critique of social practice art | International Socialist Review

LOCATED IN Houston’s predominantly African-American Third Ward, the Project Row Houses stand today as one of the most-lauded examples of a burgeoning genre of contemporary art: “social practice.” In...

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Meet the Woman Who Prevented a Mass School Shooting Yesterday

In Tuesday's terrifying incident in which a man carrying a rifle and other weapons entered an Atlanta elementary school, Antoinette Tuff helped convince the gunman to surrender.

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If a century of reform has left us with monsters like Monsanto in command, we need to declare that in face of the existing system, we need to trans-form, not re-form, capitalism. For no reform is justifiable insofar as it contributes to the endless expansion of the economic product. We need to build, therefore, a new mode of production, that transforms nature without directing the product toward the goal of accumulation.

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Optimal Network Structures. From "New directions in sustainable design" by Adrian Parr and Michael Zaretsky

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Réaummur's Pyramidal HIve.

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Making a Beebox for "Beelining".