Archive for the 'Environment' Category
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
We are constantly on the verge of another breakthrough. An information revolution. A nano-world. We transformed. We are on the verge of colonizing space. We shall go to Mars, we shall go beyond, we shall conquer the universe, or we shall go extinct trying. It seems irresponsible that we should do [...]
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Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
A quick technorati search this morning gave me a general idea of an issue that is on many people's minds: agriculture is responsible for a large percentage of greenhouse gas emissions. Just have a look here, here, here or here...four different bloggers posting independently of one another, on the same [...]
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Friday, July 27th, 2007
In an article today on Truth About Trade & Technology, Chairman Dean Kleckner criticizes former UN chief Kofi Annan for his rejection of the use of GMO crops by his organization the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa.
According to Kleckner:
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Thursday, July 26th, 2007
As reported by the Public Patent Foundation, four of Monsanto's key patents related to genetically modified (GM) crops have been rejected by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. After dozens of cases against North American farmers, the most well-known being Monsanto v Percy Schmeiser, the US Patent Office has [...]
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Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
As we push towards a truly green and sustainable revolution, business people and ecologists are increasingly forced to learn one another's language. Since the inception of environmentalism as a movement, business and economic activity was implicitly viewed as anathema, cruel and unresponsive, and responsible for the destruction of the natural world. Now, as climate change [...]
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