Cleaning up the Oceans: Coming
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 […]
Category Archives: Sustainability
Losing Earth: New York Times Special Feature
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 […]
Oceans: The Perils of Plastic
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, […]
Oceans: Perils of Plastic Coming Up
Travelers, ecotourists, beach-goers, homeowners – We want you to be informed about how plastic in every form is choking and killing marine life, and poses a threat to human health. […]
World’s “Happiest” Countries
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 […]
Chile/Peru Parks Millions of Acres Added
Chile’s Patagonia region and the Peruvian Amazon started the New Year with millions of new protected acres– rich in biodiversity and natural features—and open to adventure travelers and the public […]
Cities: Updates on New Orleans, Jakarta, Venice, Mexico City & more
Fake Paris Real Paris—and more When you’re in China, Europe is closer than you think.We know the Chinese love Paris – check out the high couture boutiques in the famed […]
2018 Straight Ahead
Green News Update is starting 2018 – a little late! — with hope and some optimism. Our cup runneth over with ideas and smart projects– brought to us by able […]
Houston Catastrophe: Prediction Becomes Fact
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 […]
Hell and High Water Predicted Houston Disaster
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 […]
