1 Billion Hectares Have Been Planted With GM Crops – Half Of Total In US
Keep in mind that there’s a bit of stats tweaking going on here. ISAAA has calculated that total by adding together all areas of land cultivated with GM crops since their introduction in 1996. In 2009 current land under GM cultivation was 148 million hectares. Brazil saw the fastest increase in GM crop adoption last [...]
Feb 22, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
Gorgeous Sewage Treatment Plant Will be Put INSIDE an Office! Building
A new office building for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is going to be home to a whole raft of green building technologies that are becoming pretty familiar, along with something a little unexpected: a beautifully disguised “green” sewage treatment plant right plunk in the middle of the lobby. Talk about hiding in plain [...]
Feb 21, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
T. Boone Pickens claiming, he has Fracked more then 3,000 wells!
AN OPEN LETTER TO JOURNALISTS FROM GASLAND DIRECTOR JOSH FOX IN RESPONSE TO ATTACKS BY GAS INDUSTRY by Josh Fox on Tuesday, February 8, 2011 With the recent Oscar nomination of my documentary film GASLAND, Big Gas and their PR attack machine hit a new low in its blatant disregard for the truth. In an [...]
Feb 09, 2011 | 2 comments | View Post
“…market calls for a supply of crops free of genetic engineering”
Genetifically Modified Alfalfa Officially On The Way by Barry Estabrook On Thursday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the United State Department of Agriculture (USDA) had approved the unrestricted planting of genetically modified alfalfa sold by Monsanto Co. and Forge Genetics, despite protests from organic groups and public health advocates and comments from nearly 250,000 [...]
…. Agribusiness Disaster on the Horizon ~hint bzzzzz
Author: John DeCock Environmental Activist And Writer There’s no reason for concern about the mass death of bees through Colony Collapse Disorder. No reason at all unless you happen to be a plant who relies on pollination or a living being who is planning to sustain life by eating food. If you don’t fall into either [...]
Jan 12, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
…Big Coal-Name Change For Mountaintop Removal/Strip Mining?
Minefields or Coalfields: Should Big Coal Change Name For Mountaintop Removal/Strip Mining? In a new episode of Big Coal Gone Wild last week, coal lobbyists announced their intentions to rebrand mountaintop removal mining as “mountaintop development.” For besieged residents living near mountaintop removal sites in Appalachia — and in the 20-odd states that allow strip-mining [...]
Dec 04, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Naomi Klein – Shock Doctrine author; Raps down the banking ‘situation’ !
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism One of the most important political and economic thinkers of our time, this Canadian journalist and author (The Shock Doctrine and No Logo) penetrates the veils of corporate globalization to expose transnational capital’s most ruthless strategies yet to exploit catastrophe from Baghdad to New Orleans. She portrays [...]
Nov 21, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Dead, dying coral found near BP spill called ‘smoking gun’
‘We have never seen anything like this,’ chief researcher says A close up of one of the impacted corals. A small amount of apparently living tissue on the tips of some branches is orange. Most of the skeleton is bare or covered by brown flocculent material. Scientists returning from an expedition off the Gulf Coast [...]
Federal judge orders Halliburton to turn over leftover cement to Marine Board
Even before Thursday’s findings by the presidential Oil Spill Commission became public, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier ordered Halliburton to turn over to federal investigators samples of the cement the company used to try to seal the Macondo oil well in April before it exploded. Barbier, who is handling the consolidated civil litigation regarding the [...]
Nov 05, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
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Nov 02, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
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