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Civic encouragement, suitable for framing.

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A participation-drive poster of a determined citizen doing their part at a municipal contribution station wired to the city grid, a rising power gauge behind and a small inset of a physician's examination room reading SEE YOUR DOCTOR, captioned CONSTIPATION IS ANTI-AMERICAN.

Constipation Is Anti-American

A wartime output-drive poster of a cheerful orderly rank of citizens filing toward municipal contribution stalls that feed a bank of generators, a lit city skyline and a climbing output gauge beyond and a large letter V in the sky, captioned CRAP OFTEN FOR VICTORY.

Crap Often For Victory

A works-morale poster showing a cutaway municipal wind tunnel with a single brown coiled stool specimen mounted on a sting, smoke streamlines curling around it, two engineers reading dials at a console, captioned ENGINEERING SOMETIMES IS SQUISHY.

Engineering Sometimes Is Squishy

A civil-defense poster of a resolute municipal defense worker in coveralls, helmet and respirator standing firm with a collection hose as a hulking creature advances through smoke and deposits waste on the pavement, a municipal digester rig waiting at the right, captioned IF IT POOPS WE CAN KILL IT.

If It Poops We Can Kill It

A home-front salvage poster of a thrifty citizen in an apron carefully emptying a household pail into a labeled municipal collection drum while an open sewer grate at their feet goes ignored, a backyard digester and a lit town in the distance, captioned DON'T WASTE WASTE.

Don't Waste Waste

A wartime security poster of two neighbors talking over a garden fence while a shadowed listener crouches at a storm drain below them, a cutaway household waste line running beneath the street toward a faltering municipal facility, captioned LOOSE LIPS SINK SEPTIC SYSTEMS.

Loose Lips Sink Septic Systems

A victory-garden poster of a proud citizen with a spade tending a backyard digester dome set among neat vegetable rows at sunrise, a steady methane flame at the vent and a large letter V worked into the sky, captioned METHANE MEANS VICTORY.

Methane Means Victory

A fuel-rationing poster split in two: on the left a citizen shutting off a mains gas ring at a darkened stove, on the right the same citizen lighting a bright flame fed from a backyard digester, an idle filling-station pump between them, captioned SAVE GAS—MAKE GAS.

Save Gas—Make Gas

A sabotage-warning poster of a shadowed figure furtively dropping a bright white wet wipe into a public stall while a municipal pump seizes and a gauge falls behind him, harsh spotlight and long shadows across the tile, captioned THE ENEMY USES WET WIPES.

The Enemy Uses Wet Wipes

A mid-century world-of-tomorrow poster of a gleaming future city with slender towers, elevated monorails, and great digester domes glowing warm ochre against a radiant dawn sky, a hopeful family gazing upward from a clean plaza in the foreground, captioned THE FUTURE IS BROWN.

The Future Is Brown

A hopeful home-front poster of a family standing before a warm lamplit house at dusk, a backyard digester dome and a softly glowing compost wall behind it, a child holding a small pennant, long golden light and rising hearth smoke, captioned A BRIGHTER, BROWNER FUTURE.

Our Children Deserve a Brighter, Browner Future

A minimalist typographic poster on a plain ochre field, a small civic crest shaped like a manhole cover centered at the top, with the words KEEP CALM AND DIGEST ON in bold capitals below.

Keep Calm and Digest On

An industrial safety-notice poster showing a calm seated figure on a metered municipal throne beside a spinning flywheel turbine and a pressure gauge whose needle climbs from red into green, directional arrows around them, captioned PLEASE REMAIN SEATED.

Please Remain Seated Until the Turbine Stabilizes

A mobilization-style poster of orderly citizens filing toward a large riveted backyard biogas digester dome, a uniformed digestion warden directing them with a raised arm while a small flame burns at the vent in the morning light, captioned REPORT TO THE DIGESTER.

Do Your Duty: Report to the Digester

A civic-vigilance poster of a watchful citizen in profile pointing out a furtive neighbor who presses both hands to his midsection in a doorway, a municipal reporting box mounted on a lamppost between them under long evening shadows, captioned REPORT UNAUTHORIZED HOLDING.

Report Unauthorized Holding

A wartime-style emergency poster showing a darkened city of unlit tenement windows and a dead power pylon in silhouette at night, a lone resolute citizen in a coat striding toward the one lit municipal facility with a hand lantern, captioned THE GRID IS DOWN.

The Grid Is Down. You Know What To Do.

A recruitment-style poster of a stern civic recruiter in a high-collared coat and cockade pointing directly at the viewer, a field of ripe golden grain and a distant municipal facility behind him, a stalk of wheat tucked in his lapel, captioned YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOUR FIBER.

Your Country Needs Your Fiber

A 1930s-style poster of a worker in overalls seated proudly on a porcelain throne before a smoking industrial skyline, above a ribbon banner reading EVERY FLUSH COUNTS.

Every Flush Counts

A patriotic poster of a row of schoolchildren standing with hands over their hearts before a raised municipal compost mound topped by a small pennant, tall sunlit windows behind them, captioned ONE NATION UNDER COMPOST.

One Nation, Under Compost

A wartime home-front poster of a woman in an apron and headscarf ladling from an enormous communal chili cauldron, steam piped off toward a distant electrical pylon and a lit town, captioned TODAY'S CHILI, TOMORROW'S GRID.

Today's Chili Is Tomorrow's Grid Stability

A recruitment-style poster of a uniformed sanitation official in overalls pointing directly at the viewer, a public porcelain throne and rows of tenement windows behind him, captioned SIT FOR THE CITY.

Do Your Duty: Sit for the City