French Bakeries: Heading for Extinction?
Imaginez! Some 1200 boulangeries close down every year in France — leaving small towns, city neighborhoods and millions of tourists without their daily baguettes. Even so, 12 million people daily […]
Category Archives: Food
Books: Homage à Paris Redux
Paris is timeless — and so is this literary homage to the City of Light which Green News Update first published in 2014. You choose which books – they range from […]
Extinction Looms: Bee Grateful!
A gratifying moment came last week for the rusty patched bumblebee – a highly threatened species of native bee in the U.S. that is an essential pollinator in such crops […]
Friday Roundup Apr 29: Ches Bay, Space Colony, Hummingbirds, Feeding Africa
Our stories this week: Chesapeake Bay’s good news, Kaplana –a NASA space colony, Howard Buffett’s “brown revolution” to feed Africa, bison wins new status Chesapeake Bay’s Good News The Chesapeake […]
¡Bienvenidos! The Essential Cuba
¡Bienvenidos a Cuba! Our story continues with five savvy travelers from recent, individually crafted “people to people” education tours to Cuba in the past two years. Through Green News Update, […]
The Essential Cuba Photo Gallery
Cuba Photo Gallery: A Preview
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 […]
Monarchs: Save Them, Says NRDC
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is taking on Dow Chemicals –– and Monsanto too– to stop the toxic herbicides that threaten Monarch butterflies with extinction. A full-page ad in […]
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 […]
