One day, one color – NYC’s annual extravaganza
Union Square in Manhattan breeds political, cultural, and environmental events that often spill...
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Category: Beyond
Blowing in the wind – Lebanon’s alternative energy future hangs in the balance
On the morning of December 7, 2009, the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Michael...
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Journey of the asteroids – one company’s plans to mind resources from outer space
Imagine that a company with enough funding and brain power sends armies of spacecraft to observe...
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A Capital Idea – Paris’s mayor is committed to green architecture
In presenting the 2010 budget for the City of Paris, Mayor Bertrand Delanoe spoke of his desire to...
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A Dilemma for New York
As a resident of New York for twenty years, I am concerned about hydrofracking. The New York Times...
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How oil’s benefits spill over to the fishing industry
Twenty miles off the coast of Louisiana’s Venice Marina, large fish swim around the gigantic legs...
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An impulse to make a statement
André Borschberg strapped himself to a single seat inside his aircraft, which is propelled only by...
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Louisiana’s losing game
On the sixth anniversary of the perfect storm that drowned more than two-thirds of New Orleans,...
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Inside Brazil’s slaughterhouse: The Amazon Rainforest
Among shaded patches of green broken by ribbons of brown river streams, the Manaus International...
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From Kon-tiki to Plastiki
Designing a 60-foot catamaran using recycled plastic bottles is unimaginable for a sea voyage....
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New York City is greening up its act
New York City is greening itself. From sustainable building designs and school programs to urban...
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I created a monster – the beautiful kinetic beasts of Theo Jansen
The Dutch know Theo Jansen as the man who has spent two decades building beach animals. At the...
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