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 […]
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Friday Roundup Mar. 4: NYC, DC, Russia, Rio
This week’s Friday Roundup features: Illegal logging and loss of forest habitat, two important film festivals (Rio and Washington DC), opening of the Met Breuer in NYC, and a critique of […]
Friday Roundup Debuts Feb 26
Friday Roundup is new – and it’s for you! Every week Green News Update will review up to a half dozen stories – news, announcements, studies – on the environment, […]
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 […]
Cities: US Canada Europe 2016
This month we’re following the water in a half-dozen cities where waterfront redevelopment and new public space amenities are underway to revitalize post-industrial areas, piers and abandoned sites. Come along […]
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 […]
Students Build Solar Houses: Stevens Wins!
Students at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken NJ are crowing about their October 18 win at the 2015 US Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon – they won first place […]
Cuba’s Waiting for You! Part I
There’s no single way to look at contemporary Cuban life, culture and the arts without understanding the contradictions, overlaps and influences that have existed for centuries– the powerful pull of […]
University Teams Build Solar Houses
Now underway: The 7th U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon is underway in Orange, California, with 16 university/technical school teams from the US, Central America, Singapore, Germany, and Rome that […]
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