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When local fowl enthusiasts Ed Bahlman and Anne-Katrin Titze arrived in Brooklyn’s largest park last Thursday to check up on birds they’d treated for injuries two days bef...
With global warming a growing concern, anything that spews CO2—a major cause of climate change—is a no-no. Cars are responsible for about 35% of all CO2 emissions, so it...
In 1991, George Bush Sr. was President, something called “grunge” was beginning to ooze out of the Pacific Northwest, and I had just moved to Phoenix, Arizona.
Back then...
Artists have always been inspired by nature, but now they are using it to remind people that nature still exists—in a still beautiful, but increasingly fragile state. The 10...
If you are anything like me, making environmentally conscious decisions comes more naturally when those decisions aren’t a hassle. Cities where public transportation, pedest...
We save energy by turning off the light when we exit a room, but how about switching off street lights when we exit a road? The USA’s street lamps use enough electricity to ...
When the streets get naked, the pedestrians come out to play. It sounds strange that road accidents are reduced when you remove the curbs, signs and traffic lights that were d...
For your garden, playground or path, you may be considering rubber mulching, made from recycled tires rather than felled trees. It has several advantages beyond the ecologic...
A night on the town may include drinking, dancing, music, singing…and other episodes we may forget or simply not wish to remember (likely because of the drinking). But thank...
For some, New York conjures up images of dirty sidewalks, trashed parks run over with rats, and skyscrapers that obliterate sunlight and prevent even a single blade of grass f...
A few winters ago I was visiting family in Bethesda, MD, a suburb of Washington, DC. As we were driving home one rainy night, I thought I saw a cat dart across the street. At...
Why battle against the Earth to force it to produce products that naturally wouldn’t flourish? As a different approach, permaculture mimics natural ecosystems to maximize fo...
Santa Fe just celebrated its 400th birthday as North America’s oldest capital city. Yet it is also among the most forward-thinking when it comes to ecology.
A walkable, bi...
Featured in Business Week, the New York Times, CNN and NPR, along with dozens of other major publications, and appearing in television shows and films, on radio programs and a...
An imagined conversation at the fancy and eco-conscious Brooklyn Bowl, a new bowling alley in the Brooklyn borough of New York City: The Dude: How much coal-generated electric...
Sure, there are some folks living in Hollywood with garages. But I am not one of them. I hope to be someday. Oh, the American Dream: city life with a covered parking place. A ...
My husband has devoted many hours of labor this summer to a local community garden, despite the ponderous commitment he planted himself into at with our garden at home. (I alw...
For the eighth year in a row, the quais and canals of Paris play something of a magic trick—a selected few transform into beaches now that summer has hit.
Sure, ‘beach...
A few years ago, an educational garden at my child’s elementary school—complete with mature fruit trees—came under siege by the principal who wanted it paved over and ma...
“The city is more beautiful by bike.” - English translation of the slogan on the official Velib’ website
When I get up in the mornings and have to rush off to work in ...
As discussed in Angie Hacker’s article, “Save a Tree, Hug a Highrise” on this site, urban living is definitely more ecological and socially vibrant. Though I sometimes r...
While the infamous Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989, Berlin's less famous walls have never been better. In fact, foam thermal insulation added to the city's buildings is part...
I grew up in a farm town in Michigan. And despite my eccentric appearance, I have farm-town values. Family and nature mean a lot to me, so it breaks my heart in a secret way t...
“I discovered that in Paris, there are a heap of other birds than just pigeons or sparrows. During our outing, we saw more than 60 different kinds of birds; extraordinary!...
Ah, spring in Paris… the sun emerges from the gray clouds, flowers start to bloom in the parks, pollen is palpable in the air, and people seem to smile more often. It’s a ...
I recently wrote an article called “Save a Tree, Hug a Highrise?” in which I present evidence that suggests the debate between the merits of urban and non-urban living is ...
A few thousand years ago, man discovered how to store surplus supplies of food and water and became free to move from farm to city (long story short, of course). Since then, t...
Although the environmental record of the United States over the past eight years has been abysmal, there have been recent successes. And there are some positive signs for the ...
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