Slow Wine is a global movement which declares the right of human beings to eat cleanly, drink cleanly and breathe clean air. As such it should no longer be seen as an "elite" movement for the few.
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Stunning Chihuly Glass Sculptures Coming to the New York Botanical Garden in April
Lit up at night, the sculptures promise to be a singular, sterling experience integrating color, form, and light amidst the haunting, shadowy landscape of NYBG vistas.
Read More »California Bans Plastic Bags, and Zaps Your Freedom
With the passage of Proposition 67, California became the first state to ban single-use plastic grocery bags. It also requires most stores to charge shoppers 10 cents for either reusable plastic bags or paper bags. The idea is to manipulate people into using cloth totes to carry home their groceries. Hooray for the environment? Maybe.
Read More »Cruise Industry Taking Tentative Steps Toward Greener Vacationing
Some cruise lines have begun to take steps toward a green future, and if others don’t step up, brands with an eco-friendly bent may come to dominate the industry.
Read More »‘Pokemon GO’ – Away
'Pokemon GO' proves how susceptible we humans are to becoming tech-addicted lemmings, only too ready to follow the latest virtual fad right off an actual cliff.
Read More »The U.S. National Park Service Turns 100 This Year
The National Park Service oversees not just vast spaces and natural wonders, but historic sites like Alexander Hamilton's home in New York City.
Read More »‘Impressionism: American Gardens on Canvas’ at the New York Botanical Garden
The conceptualization was that the gardens were echoes of their canvas counterparts; they were living paintings.
Read More »EXCLUSIVE: Orchid Show Part 2: New York Botanic Garden’s Marc Hachadourian on Orchidelirium
'I see it as horticultural theater. The way exhibitions are, there is tremendous complexity. It’s like when the curtain goes up the set changes.'
Read More »Orchid Show Part 1: New York Botanic Garden’s Marc Hachadourian on Orchidelirium
That was the standard practice of the explorers in the Victorian period: 'I paid you thousands of dollars to go far off into the forests of India to bring me back this plant. I want this plant.'
Read More »NYBG Orchidelirium: Orchid Intrigue And The Deadly Quest For Extraordinary Profits
"Orchidelirium" is a bedazzling, live horticultural spectacular, a sterling exhibition to celebrate the NYBG's 125th Anniversary.
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