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 […]
Tag Archives: Paris
Book World Part I 2012-2017
In the world of books, there are years that yield harvests of brilliant writing ( as well as photography and illustration) shaped into works that inform, touch and inspire us. […]
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 […]
Summer Books 2017: Walk, Bike, Time Travel
Looking for some good reading this summer? We will have you soaring, strolling, hiking, biking, ballooning, time traveling, even shedding your mortal body. In our 10-book selection, you’ll meet the […]
Holidays: Travels Near and Far
Thank you – to readers and followers of Green News Update — for making this another great year. Since our startup in 2012 we have posted over 250 stories – […]
Paris a Year Ago
Just a year ago — Paris was sunny, crisp, fall-like, a city of great buildings and monuments and many small pleasures. My city, your city. Paris belongs to the world. […]
We stand with France!
We stand with our friends against terror!
Gift Books 2014: Cities
Our books for 2014 look back and ahead at cities’ history, design, destruction and revitalization, and their not-well-kept secrets. Something happened on the way to assembling this year’s book suggestions. […]
Books Summer 2014: Homage à Paris
Our selection of books in this homage to Paris is as light as a soufflé or as dense as a cassoulet. You choose which books – they range from the 1920’s to […]
CITIES: Havana, Venice, Moscow, Bristol, DC, etc
CITIES tackles a bunch of “B” words this month with a view to urban design, architecture, culture and sustainability in Mexico City, Moscow, Havana, Paris, Seattle, New York, Venice and […]
