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People walk through flood waters of West Houston on Sunday August 27, 2017. Thomas B. Shea Getty Images

Houston Catastrophe: Prediction Becomes Fact

August 30, 2017by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Just a month before Hurricane Harvey – now a tropical storm — devastated the Houston/Galveston coastal region, moving on to Louisiana– the Union of Concerned Scientists issued When Rising Seas Hit […]

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Cities, Climate change, Disasters, Environment, Oceans, Rising Waters, Rivers, Sustainability, Weather
Hurricane Harvey from space. Courtesy of NOAA

Hell and High Water Predicted Houston Disaster

August 28, 2017by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

A Peabody-award-winning report, Hell and High Water,  on how Texas, and the Houston area in particular, might suffer catastrophic hurricane damage in a future storm, was made public in March […]

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Cities, Climate change, Environment, Netherlands, Rising Waters, Sustainability, Water, Weather
Swan Bridge and waterfront Rotterdam. (Bobbie Faul-Zeitler CC 3.0)

Rotterdam and Resilience: Dutch Know-How

June 19, 2017by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

  Michael Kimmelman’s front page story Dutch Face Rising Seas in the New York Times is a must-read for anyone concerned about the rising threat to US coasts, coastal cities, […]

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Cities, Climate change, Europe, Green Practices, Netherlands, Rising Waters, Sustainability, Urban design, Water, 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
Rising Water U.S. Coast. Guard. Photo by Mark Olsen, US Coast Guard.

Climate Change: An Inconvenient Sequel

April 3, 2017by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

A  sequel to An Inconvenient Truth – the 2006 documentary produced by former VP Al Gore and seen by a worldwide audience – premieres July 28 worldwide as An Inconvenient […]

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Biodiversity, Climate change, Disasters, Documentary films, Ecology, Energy, Environment, Extinction, Film and television, Rising Waters, Science, Sustainability
Dar Si Hmad Fog Harvester Morocco

Friday Roundup Apr 1: No foolin’!

April 1, 2016by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Friday Roundup April 1: Our stories — how cities and islands may disappear by the end of the century, making water from fog, a 65-year-old “mother” osprey, salmon spawn for […]

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Birds, Cities, Climate change, Environment, Fish, Friday Roundup, International, Oceans, Rising Waters, Science, Water
Shinola marketing piece

Friday Roundup: Feb 26

February 25, 2016by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

WELCOME TO FRIDAY ROUNDUP on Green News Update. In our inaugural news roundup, we’re offering a batch of “ups and downs” – sea level rising, Detroit’s Shinola winning hearts and minds, bicycle […]

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China, Cities, Climate change, Environment, Friday Roundup, Museums, Oceans, Photography, Rising Waters, Sustainability
Front of the SURE House (Courtesy of Stevens Institute of Technology)

Students Build Solar Houses: Stevens Wins!

November 12, 2015by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Students at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken NJ are crowing about their October 18 win at the 2015 US Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon – they won first place […]

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Architecture, Art & Design, Education, Energy, Higher education, Rising Waters, Solar energy, Sustainability

Climate Change: New resources for readers

July 23, 2015by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

A new Green News Update resources page –– see our homepage for the link — will feature reports, studies, videos and op-eds in the runup to the COP 21 (Conference of the Parties) in […]

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Climate change, Ecology, Endangered species, Environment, Extinction, Opinions, Rising Waters, Science
Dogsled trip to Sermeq Avanardleq, Greenland, March 12, 2008 (Courtesy of EIS)

Earth Heroes: James Balog Chasing Ice

April 17, 2015by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

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.  […]

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Books, Climate change, Documentary films, Film and television, Photography, Rising Waters, Water

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