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Philadelphia is a city of rivers and bridges, but far from the mountains depicted in this image. Still, the city is trying to install green measures to clean up the waterways, including replacing pavement with more green spaces and porous surfaces to slow the flow of rainwater and reduce sewage overflow into the creeks and rivers.

This is in a gentrifying neighborhood of Krakow

In a city far from the ocean, an octopus tells us what to do.

Humans evolve to the edge of the earth.

Images conjuring the animal life of Normandy decorate chairs along the boardwalk of the Deauville beachfront

This image falls in the human nature category. A graffiti artist reminds us, a little fore-lonely, not to abandon the art in each of us. TNOC strives to touch the art in all of us, and in solutions to the climate challenges and threats we impose on our urban spaces.

On a wall along the dusty streets of Amman, a woman delicately holds the world in her hands, contemplating perhaps the beauty and fragility of our natural world – and lack of a plan B.

Amman has very few green spaces. This is largely due to its desert environment, but also to the pressures of rapid urbanization (largely due to massive influxes of refugees from Irak, Syria, and other places) that favor buildings and roads over parks and recreation areas. This image is from a street art piece on a ventilation pipe that is part of a downtown outdoor/indoor shopping complex, known as The Boulevard. It is a place where city dwellers gather to stroll, eat, shop, and be together. I’m not sure what the image of these birds is meant to convey. Are they angry birds, barnyard roosters, or heroic birds of prey?

Amman has very few green spaces. This is largely due to its desert environment, but also to the pressures of rapid urbanization (largely due to massive influxes of refugees from Irak, Syria, and other places) that favor buildings and roads over parks and recreation areas. This image is from a street art piece on a ventilation pipe that is part of a downtown outdoor/indoor shopping complex, known as The Boulevard. There is no natural greenery, so street art flowers act as a substitute. It is a place where city dwellers gather to stroll, eat, shop, and be together. Why there is the slogan “together we stand, divided we fall”? I don’t know.

In the old city of Akko, images of danger (a lighthouse and lifesaving ring) with am embedded image of nature and birds. Do we read too much into this to think that the artist wanted to suggest the life saving aspects of nature?