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Amsterdam: Find your bike in this pile!

World’s “Happiest” Countries

April 18, 2018by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

The world’s happiest countries are bright and sunny, tropical and temperate. Right ?  Wrong! Finland tops the list of the “happiest” in the 2018 World Happiness Report, which ranks 156 […]

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Australia, Europe, Netherlands, News, Nordic Countries, People, Sustainability, Travel
Solar eclipse progression. Courtesy of Morefield

Solar Eclipse Aug 21 2017

August 21, 2017by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

It’s showtime! The sun and moon are putting on a spectacle today with an audience of hundreds of millions live viewers – and millions more online and watching the solar […]

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Anniversaries, Energy, Environment, News, Science, Solar energy, Weather

Paris Climate Agreement – Read and Weep

June 2, 2017by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

U.S. pulls out of the Paris Climate Agreement two days after causing a kerfuffle (a real word!) with the invented word covfefe. Here’s what Pulitzer-Prize-winning New Yorker contributor Elizabeth Kolbert has to […]

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Biodiversity, Climate change, Conservation, Endangered species, Energy, Environment, Extinction, News, Opinions, Rising Waters, Science, Sustainability, Weather
Liberty Friendship 7 John Glenn's space capsule. Courtesy National Air & Space Museum

Remembering John Glenn! Godspeed

April 7, 2017by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Astronaut John Glenn was buried this week in Arlington National Cemetery. I had a glorious brief encounter with Astronaut-U.S. Sen. John Glenn when I staged the National Air & Space Museum’s […]

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Discovery, Film and television, Heroes, History, News, People, Transportation
Hibernating Queen. Courtesy of Conservation Trust

Extinction Looms: Bee Grateful!

March 30, 2017by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

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 […]

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Biodiversity, Birds, Butterflies, Conservation, Endangered species, Environment, Extinction, Farming, Food, Gardens, Green Practices, News, Science, Sustainability
Astronaut John Glenn Courtesy of NASA

Remembering John Glenn!

December 9, 2016by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Remembering Astronaut John Glenn today — one day after his death at age 95.  I had a glorious brief encounter with Astronaut-U.S. Sen. John Glenn when I staged the National […]

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Discovery, Film and television, History, News, People, Transportation
Atlantic White Cedar Swamp trail on Cape Cod

Experience the World: Our 4th Anniversary

October 7, 2016by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Green News Update is celebrating – four years as an online blog in a web-style format.  That’s over 270 posts – more than once a week, on average – on […]

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Africa, Asia, Australia, Discovery, Europe, News, Opinions, Sustainability, Travel, Urban life
Courtesy of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation

Friday Roundup Apr 29: Ches Bay, Space Colony, Hummingbirds, Feeding Africa

April 29, 2016by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

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 […]

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Birds, Extinction, Farming, Food, Friday Roundup, News, Rivers, Science, Water, Whales, Wildlife
Men in wetsuits waded out to snare pilot whales and bring them ashore for killing. Sciene of the slaughter is the Faroe Islands, part of Denmark. Copyright Mark Wendt/Sea Shepherd Global.

Whalehunting: The latest Japanese caper

March 30, 2016by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Japan has just returned from a 3-month whale-hunting “expedition” in the Antarctic, killing 333 minke whales – some 230 were females,  90% of them pregnant – as part of its […]

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Animals at risk, Asia, Endangered species, Europe, News, Oceans, Sustainability, Whales
Berta Caceres Courtesy of IPS News

Berta Caceres: Enviro Activist Murdered

March 8, 2016by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

This is heartbreaking news! Environmental activist Berta Cáceres – who defied the government of Honduras  for the land rights of indigenous people—was laid to rest on March 7 after being […]

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Energy, Environment, Heroes, News, People, Rivers

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