News Review

Coyotes invade Manhattan! Uptown and downtown! I think they're trying to flank us.

The paper of record has done a few stories about urbanites who were hoodwinked into doing manual labor for free, or sometimes even paying to do it. Like migrant farm workers, working at a vineyard in the winter or grunt work at breweries. Well, if anyone wants to come over and pull some weeds and clean my brew kettles, I have openings available!

Manhattan Meadery and New York's urban wineries get a shout-out in am New York!

If your bedroom has a view of the apartment building next door, don't despair. With rising sea levels you could have a view of the Hudson pretty soon.

The flowers and the bees. Gettin' it done.

Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution- Make America less fat. Here's the best advice I've ever heard- "move more, eat less".

China's environmental black thumb expands to water. Not just the Three Gorges, now it's drinking water too. Prediction- access to clean water will be the biggest environmental and natural resources issue, as well as source of conflict, in the next twenty years.

The U.S. gets serious about car emissions and fuel economy.

Huge greenhouses make high-tech tomatoes all year long. This sounds like where our food will come from after the Apocalypse. I wonder what Michael Pollan would say about this?

Grow your own horseradish. It's almost gardening season!

The E.P.A. moves to limit the controversial practice of mountaintop removal coal mining.

An amusing and rambling discussion of insects in New York City.