Summer Reading: Birds, Butterflies, Bees
Birds, butterflies and bees — what do they have in common ? This group of 20 books originally posted for Christmas 2014- resource guides, travelogues, memoirs and more — makes […]
Category Archives: Books
Design Books: 35 You Must Read
Fast Company’s CoDesign blog writer Mark Wilson shares 35 design and creativity books that famed art schools – RISD, Pratt, Parsons, California College of the Arts, among others– say are […]
Coming Up: Stories for the Summer Season
Summer 2015: Is there an idea, an inspiration, a calling, a voyage in our selection of upcoming stories? Come back and see. Havana: What’s up in the arts, architecture and […]
Food Tank 20 Books to Read (and More)
Our friends at Food Tank – one of the best and most thoughtful web sites on the Internet – offers a sampler of 20 interesting and thought-provoking books that will take […]
The summer season: coming up
Summer –– even in your dreams—is a special time to read, roam, eat fresh picked, think about the past and make plans for the future. Here’s some of what we […]
Earth Heroes: James Balog Chasing Ice
International photographer James Balog’s Extreme Ice Survey (EIS) could be described as a watching a planetary train wreck through time-lapse photography – it is breathtaking, bizarrely beautiful, shocking and worrisome. […]
The Oldest Living Things: A Book to Cherish
Brooklyn-based Rachel Sussman spent 10 years in her epic quest to photograph the oldest living things on the planet, resulting in The Oldest Living Things, the book published by the […]
Looking Back & Ahead 2015
In 2014 Green News Update covered a wide range of sustainability issues — animals at risk, urban design, green practices, books and more. Thanks to all of our readers and […]
Gift Books 2014: Best of the Best!
Great writers, good storytelling, fascinating subjects — these are the basis for the Best of the Best authors and books for Holidays 2014. Their métier is nonfiction, whether deep science or […]
Gift Books 2014: Cities
Our books for 2014 look back and ahead at cities’ history, design, destruction and revitalization, and their not-well-kept secrets. Something happened on the way to assembling this year’s book suggestions. […]
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