Coming up: All of our earth heroes
To wrap up Earth Week 2016, we’ll be publishing a portal with story links to everyone who has been an Earth Hero on our site since 2013. Here are just […]
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Frans de Waal: Primates are us!
“What could be more dignified than primates who use their natural gifts to build a humane society?” ( Frans de Waal) Frans de Waal is a celebrated primatologist who manages to […]
Portal to Sizzling Cities
CITIES around the world are sizzling – with urban design, the arts, green practices and smart technologies. Green News Update serves as a portal to cities worldwide that are booming […]
Coming Up: A Taste of 2016
Green News Update’s readers hail from 118 countries! This year we’ll look at cities and natural places, urban themes and older traditions, that define our cultures, our countries and preserving the […]
Gift Books 2015 Our Pick of the Best
Great writers, good storytelling, fascinating subjects — these are the basis for the Best of the Best authors and books for Holidays 2015. Their métier is nonfiction, whether deep science, history or memoir, […]
Gift Books 2015: Questing/Adventure/Travel
THE INVENTION OF NATURE: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World, Andrea Wulf. (Alfred A. Knopf) 473 pp Illustrated. Alfred A. Knopf. $30. Is there a way to summarize the prodigious talents […]
Gift Books 2015: Photography There’s More!
UPDATE: We’ve added four great photography books to the 2015 Holiday wish list we posted recently. They all represent –in one way or another – the world that once was […]
Gift Books for 2015: Coming Next Week
Our 2015 Holiday Round-up of books — to crave, see, read, give and keep –is coming next week in four installments! Photography — from phytoplankton to Hubble Telescope images Questing […]
Gift Books Coming: More to Read Now!
Books to give — and get –for Holidays 2015. Soon we’ll be posting dozens of current and classic works on photography, design, cities, natural history, science and more. If you’re craving […]
Joel Sartore’s Photo Ark: Coming Up
Joel Sartore is a man on a mission – to photograph 12,000 species of mammals, amphibians, birds, insects and other species before they go extinct, through a project he calls […]
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