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Coming Up: Earth Day 2020

April 22, 2020by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Earth Day is 50 years old in 2020– but unlike any time in memory, a worldwide pandemic demonstrates just how out of balance our planet is in the 21st century. […]

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Animals at risk, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered species, Environment, Heroes, People, Sustainability
Plastic baled for recycling. Courtesy National Public Radio

Plastics Update – New Frontline Documentary

April 3, 2020by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Plastic production, pollution and recycling — a new Frontline/NPR documentary Plastic Wars,  that premiered March 31 on PBS stations and online — reveals the sordid truth about why we are […]

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Endangered species, Environment, Fish, Oceans, Plastic, Waste and Recycling, Water
Wyss Campaign for Nature

Earth Heroes: A $1 Billion Investment

April 24, 2019by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Who is Hansjörg Wyss – and why is he giving away a billion dollars ? Just before the end of 2018, nature lover-billionaire-philanthropist Hansjörg Wyss wrote a New York Times […]

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Africa, Asia, Biodiversity, Conservation, Endangered species, Environment, Extinction, Heroes, Latin America, Oceans, Parks, Sustainability, Wildlife
Achoque at a fisheries research center in Mexico.

Earth Heroes: Sisters Saving Salamanders 

April 23, 2019by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

We think of convents as places of order and refuge: That’s exactly why the Lake Pátzcuaro salamander  is so lucky to have an order of Dominican Sisters offer them continued […]

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Animals at risk, Biodiversity, Conservation, Endangered species, Environment, Extinction, Heroes, Natural history, Sustainability

Coming Up: Earth Day Tributes 2019

April 19, 2019by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

For Earth Week 2019 we will feature one “hero” each day, although we’ve found many more heroes than there are days in a week. Here’s who you will learn about: […]

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Africa, Climate change, Endangered species, Environment, Latin America, People, Science, Sustainability
Images from Francoise Gilot's sketchbooks. Courtesy of Tachen

Coming Soon! Books Spring 2019

March 9, 2019by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Start the spring with a time-traveling array of books on real crises and imagined places, beloved cities, art and design,  and what the future may hold for the planet. Among […]

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Art & Design, Books, Cities, Climate change, Environment, Europe
Hundertwasserhaus in Vienna, Austria

Aligning Architecture with Nature

February 12, 2019by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Utopian or pragmatic, celebrated or untested—cities, communities and structures that work for the benefit of nature and humankind are featured in our new update. How can buildings– and cities– do […]

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Architecture, Art & Design, Biodiversity, Cities, Energy, Environment, Parks, Sustainability, Urban design, Waste and Recycling
Enlarged microbeads banned by President Barack Obama. Photo by 5 gyres Oregon State University

Cleaning up the Oceans: Coming

October 16, 2018by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Are we facing an “Ocean Armageddon, “ with a trillion pieces of plastic in our oceans and 8 million tons added every year ? That’s what Erik Solheim, U.N. Environment […]

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Environment, Fish, Oceans, Rivers, Sustainability, Waste and Recycling, Water
Earth -our only home (GOES satellite)

Losing Earth: New York Times Special Feature

August 1, 2018by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Climate Change could have been stopped! The New York Times Magazine this week presents a two-part special feature  on the 10-year period (1979 to 1989) when“we came very close to […]

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Climate change, Disasters, Environment, Photography, Sustainability, Weather
Ocean plastics. Courtesy of doyourpart.com

Oceans: The Perils of Plastic

July 22, 2018by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Travelers, ecotourists,  beach-goers, sports fans, consumers: It doesn’t matter where you live or travel, plastic pollution is invading our oceans—it is affecting you and your well-being, as well as animals, […]

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Endangered species, Environment, Fish, Oceans, Plastic, Rivers, Sustainability, Travel, Waste and Recycling, Water, Whales

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