A Return to a Simpler Time
by Andrea Frascione, staff writerWalking to the grocery store, pulling a two-wheeled personal shopping cart behind you, lined with a couple of large paper bags. Leisure bicycles with an extra-wide seat and a basket up…
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Educating Future America: Keeping Kids Off The Streets and In School
by Andrea Frascione, staff-writerConservative critics will look for any excuse to accuse the liberals, specifically President Obama, of having socialist tendencies. In reaction to the President’s recent speech urging children to stay in school, Michael…
A Family Feud Destroys Oasis While Blast From The Past Makes A Comeback
Oasis Is On The Fritz - And Blast From The Past Seems To Be Today's Music Famed Brit-pop band Oasis has split up on this, their fifteenth year, in the music business. Touted by Rollingstone…
Branching Out: Lifestyle Centers and the Future of Shopping
by Andrea Frascione, staff writerIn these challenging economic times, despite our increasingly expensive brand-oriented tastes, even the good old American shopping mall is perilously at risk. Previously a ‘mecca’ for fashionistas, retail marketers are looking…
From Farm to Fork
SAN FRANCISCO (RPRN) 5/18/2009--The first ever ‘Growing Green’ awards, sponsored by the NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) took place on May 9 at San Francisco’s California Academy of Sciences. This initiative, bringing to the forefront…
The Seedy Underbelly of Green Cuisine
While buying green is better for the environment, farm workers are seeing red by Andrea Frascione, staff writer LOS ANGELES (RPRN) 5/27/2009-Choosing to eat green has some people seeing red! What does buying your organic…
Scientist Lovelock Believes It’s Too Little, Too Late For the Environment
By Andrea Frascione, staff writer MONTREAL (RPRN) 6/4/2009--In his latest book, The Vanishing Face of Gaia, English scientist-author, James Lovelock, discusses the very real possibility that there is absolutely nothing we can do to save…
Girl Geek Dinners: A Celebration of Women in Technology
By Andrea Frascione, staff writer MONTREAL (RPRN) 6/09/09 – The most recent Montreal Girl Geek Dinner was held in March, honoring two women for the important roles they play as females at the forefront of…
The ‘N’ Word: What Obama isn’t saying about GM
By Andrea Frascione, staff writer MONTREAL (RPRN) 6/15/2009--Back in March, when bankruptcy was deemed the only plausible solution for this automaker giant, President Barack Obama was quoted as saying that his administration ‘‘had no intention…
White Light For Green Architecture Is Changing California
Sustainable Architecture Is Changing the Face of Way Homes Are Built in California By Andrea Frascione, staff-writer BIG SUR, CA (RPRN) 6/23/2009 - Scientifically speaking, white light is created by the presence of all spectrum…