Coming up: Will Cities Thrive? An Optimistic Look
Cities are in the thick of the current pandemic – but also places where millions want to live, work and visit. We’re skipping ahead, with optimism, that we’ll see better […]
Category Archives: Urban life
Coming Up: Cities Update
Cities are hot, hot, hot– bursting with burgeoning populations, demands on resources, climate change proposals and new ideas. Today, the world’s urban population is 4.2 billion. The United Nations estimates that […]
Philadelphia Greens Itself: Vibrant Public Space
Parks are blooming all over Philadelphia, but one, in particular, has travelers, tourists, and residents rejoicing: The Rail Park –one of the next generation of greenways popping up around the […]
What’s coming for summer 2018
Fellow travelers from all over the world — a hearty thank you to new readers who are using their RSS feed through Outlook to find new and older stories on […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Books Summer 2017 A Preview
Welcome to the first day of Summer 2017: A dozen nonfiction works and novels await you in our upcoming summer reading recommendations. These books are the stuff of summer– whether […]
Travel with Us: A Year-End Wish 2016
Art and culture, books, travel, unique places, creatures great and small, and a safer, greener world. We care about the planet — sustainability is our cause. Thank you – to readers […]
Experience the World: Our 4th Anniversary
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 […]
