Green News Update’s readers hail from 118 countries! This year we’ll look at cities and natural places, urban themes and older traditions,  that define our cultures, our countries and preserving the natural world.

• Cities: Our ongoing column of trends, ideas and projects on just about every continent

The amazing world of Jose Rodriguez Fuster in Jaimanitas, the northwest edge of the capital. Fusterlandia covers the artist’s property, fence and goes into the neighborhood.

• Cuba: 15 must-experience places from recent travelers as Cuba puts out the welcome mat

• Museums and urban development: Dozens of projects are creative forces for urban  life and economic development

• Are libraries doomed? Will books and collections be replaced by the cloud?

Shepherdess Carole with 800 sheep in Winter Nomads 2012

• Herders and ancient ways: Is there time and space left in an urbanizing world for Mongols, Sammis (Laplanders), and European shepherds to follow ancient practices of tending and moving their animals

Wolves, bears, lynxes, eagles and cranes are among the species –many of them on the IUCN Red list—the Green Belt partners are seeking to protect. © Pukowik

• Rewilding Europe: Updating our popular 2013 series –how the Dutch, Eastern European countries and Spain are recreating and repopulating wild areas

• More books to give or get! Science, technology and natural history for starters

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