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 […]
Category Archives: Urban life
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 […]
Coming this summer: books, museums, cities
Looting the ancient world – cities, sites and tombs are being robbed to fund militants and deliberately destroyed to erase our history Solar projects – follow Impulse 2 (solar […]
Cuba: Update and Portal to the Island
Havana: The first cruise ship in decades docked May 2 – with on shore dancers, bands and crowds waving flags. The city’s restaurant scene is flourishing, even with shortages of […]
