Effective March 1, 2020 New York State is banning plastic bags. You will have to bring your own reusable bag or pay for a paper one.

That was how Washington Irving, 19th century writer, described the Hudson River. For over 200 years, writers and artists have captured the river in paintings...

We've all heard the horror stories. #Whales washing up dead are found to have ingested 50 lbs of plastic. #plasticproblem Once scenic shorelines now collec...

St. Patrick's Cathedral on New York’s Fifth Avenue is undergoing a $200 million renovation. Part of that upgrade is a new $35 million geothermal heating and ...

I will never get tired of Italian food. And now I find that I can even find in #Italy #vegan restaurants, #rawfood restaurants and traditional Italian resta...

One of the great pleasures of travel is the element of surprise. And nothing was a bigger surprise than finding a totally traditional, totally vegan/vegetar...

Haggis is one of those dishes you simply can't avoid in your cruising around #Edinburgh. Eating haggis and sampling the whiskey are the quintessentially Scot...

Just about every Sunday during the summer I ride my bike up Rt. 9W from Manhattan to the small village of #Piermont in #RocklandCounty. It’s a lovely and tra...

And the restaurant is right in my own back yard? That's right! A bit north of Union Square Park and south of the iconic Flatiron Building, celebrity chef J...

Let's talk. Yes, I know. Most of us have a quick almost instinctive reaction to kill any insect that crawls, slithers, flies or generally crosses our paths...

An estimated one trillion bags are used each year globally, but they are so seamlessly ingrained into our daily routines that we hardly notice. It is difficu...

Vibrant and inviting, I had a good feeling about The Organic Grill (East Village, NYC) the moment my wife and I walked in. My expectations continued to rise...

What makes a product eco-friendly? You can't have an eco-friendly laundry liquid if it's filled with harmful ingredients that pollute the environment. Stuff...

Would I find anything in Gothenburg to eat besides herring? Cafè Andrum Östra Hamngatan 19 Gothenburg 411 10 No need to worry! The first thing I like to do w...

Eran Hileli of Holy Hummus and Holyland Market makes a fantastic hummus! St. Marks Place, NYC Last week I had the great fun of talking with Israeli native E...