Lose Your Lawn
Have you taken your hounds fox hunting lately? You haven't? Well, maybe you've gone to visit a friend's estate in a horse and carriage? You haven't done that either, have you? Most of the popular trends of 19th century British aristocracy are not the norm in 21st century America. Except for one: the lawn.
Secret Funding Helped Build Vast Network of Climate Denial Thinktanks
Anonymous billionaires donated $120m to more than 100 anti-climate groups working to discredit climate change science
Walmart's Big Push into Groceries is Not Good for Small Farmers
Groceries make up more than half of Walmart's retail sales, an amount that's risen significantly over the past 10 years.
US Farmers May Stop Planting GMOs After Poor Yields
Some US farmers are considering returning to conventional seed after increased pest resistance and crop failures meant GM crops saw smaller yields globally than their non-GM counterparts.
Do GMO Crops Really Have Higher Yields?
According to the biotech industry, genetically modified (GM) crops are a boon to humanity because they allow farmers to "generate higher crop yields with fewer inputs," as the trade group Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) puts it on its web page.
OCA Brings 'Boycott Factory-Farmed Foods' Message to Forward on Climate Rally
Cook Organic, Not the Planet
What if there were an inexpensive technology that could cut greenhouse gas emissions by up to 50 percent or more? What if this technology over the next 30-40 years could also sequester 50-100 parts-per-million (ppm) of carbon dioxide (CO2), to bring the total ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere down from the current 392 ppm to 350 ppm - the number scientists tell us we must achieve in order to avert a climate crisis? And what if this technology were widely available to all of us? It is. And we need look no further than the end of our forks.
Reasons for Labeling of Genetically Engineered Foods
SUMMARY: Based on the scientific uncertainty surrounding both the molecular characterization of genetically engineered (GE) crops as well as the detection of potential allergenicity, there is more than enough uncertainty to decide to require labeling of foods produced via GE as a risk management measure as a way to identify unintended health effects that may occur post approval. If foods are not labeled as to GE status, it would be very difficult to even identify an unexpected health effect resulting from a GE food.
Corporations, Investors Grabbing Land Overseas
As a growing population stresses the world's food and water supplies, corporations and investors in wealthy countries are buying up foreign farmland and the freshwater perks that come with it.
Flu Vaccine Propaganda Heats Up
A wide range of vaccine stories have been featured in the news over the past few weeks - many, no doubt, published to propagandize the updated 2013 vaccination schedules for children and adults and to promote the seasonal flu vaccine.
A New Manhattan Project
Something interesting is happening in Australia. A new study by the research firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance has found that unsubsidized renewable energy is now cheaper than fossil fuels like coal and gas.
Farmer's Use of Genetically Modified Soybeans Grows Into Supreme Court Case
In SANDBORN, Ind. - Farmer Hugh Bowman hardly looks the part of a revolutionary who stands in the way of promising new biotech discoveries and threatens Monsanto's pursuit of new products it says will "feed the world."
A Presidential Decision That Could Change the World
Presidential decisions often turn out to be far less significant than imagined, but every now and then what a president decides actually determines how the world turns. Such is the case with the Keystone XL pipeline, which, if built, is slated to bring some of the "dirtiest," carbon-rich oil on the planet from Alberta, Canada, to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast. In the near future, President Obama is expected to give its construction a definitive thumbs up or thumbs down, and the decision he makes could prove far more important than anyone imagines.
Rationally Speaking, We Are All Apocalyptic Now
We are all apocalyptic now, or at least we should be, if we are rational. Because "apocalyptic" is typically associated with religious fanaticism and death cults - things that rational people tend not to take literally or seriously - this claim requires some explanation.
Harvesting Justice: Transforming the Global Food Supply Chain
"Over a half-century ago, Mahatma Gandhi led a multitude of Indians to the sea to make salt in defiance of the British Empire's monopoly on this resource critical to people's diet. The action catalyzed the fragmented movement for Indian independence and was the beginning of the end for Britain's rule over India. The act of 'making salt' has since been repeated many times in many forms by people's movements seeking liberation, justice and sovereignty: Cesar Chavez, Nelson Mandela, and the Zapatistas are just a few of the most prominent examples.
Billionaire Fracking Brothers Top Political Donors
HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Two billionaire brothers who made a fortune in the fracking industry and have begun buying up eastern Montana land were the top donors to successful 2012 legislative candidates, according to a new report from the National Institute on Money in State Politics.
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Will the Keystone XL Pipeline Go Down?
Think of it as a prospective irony: In a spirit of pure, blind partisanship, the drill-baby-drill folks in the Republican Party may have done themselves in. After all, their obsession with the Benghazi incident led them to launch a preemptive strike against the president's choice for secretary of state, Susan Rice, for her statements on what happened when the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were murdered there.
Radioactive Metal from Nuclear Weapons Facilities May End up in Your Shopping Bag
How would you like radioactive metal from nuclear weapons facilities to be recycled for use in consumer goods like silverware, pots and pans, eye glasses, zippers, kid's braces, and even pacemakers and artificial hip joints?
EU Bans Animal Testing in Cosmetics
Though a major victory for animals and animal-rights groups, the recent announcement that the European Union is banning the use of animals in cosmetic testing shines a light on the sparse regulation of the chemicals used by the cosmetic industry in the United States.
Homa Therapy in India
As US and Other Wealthy Nations Slash Aid, UN Warns of "Silent Tsunami of Hunger" in Global Food Crisis
