Sunday, March 15th, 2009
Silvia Ribeiro* El 6 de marzo, el gobierno mexicano anunció que consideraba terminado (en todos los sentidos de la palabra) el marco legal de bioseguridad en México, abriendo las puertas a la experimentación con maíz transgénico. Un delito histórico, que marca la decisión del gobierno de enajenar y colocar en alto riesgo el patrimonio genético [...]
Sunday, February 15th, 2009
Silvia Ribeiro Una empresa semillera estadunidense presentó una solicitud para patentar las calabazas. ¿Suena a cuento? Lamentablemente, si la Oficina de Marcas y Patentes de Estados Unidos (USPTO) concede la patente US20080301830, la realidad habrá superado nuevamente a la ficción. La empresa Siegers Seed Company, con base en Michigan, Estados Unidos, pretende lograr el monopolio [...]
Saturday, February 7th, 2009
Written for The Ecologist – February 2009 available online at http://www.theecologist.org/pages/archive_detail.asp?content_id=2053 Somebody somewhere has to have a cunning plan to fix our environmental problems and save the world – right? Jim Thomas sorts through the big tech ideas you’ll be reading about this year Almost every day sees new technologies being proposed to fix old problems. [...]
Friday, October 24th, 2008
Written for The Ecologist 01/10/2008 Available online at http://www.theecologist.org/pages/archive_detail.asp?content_id=1978 If there is a video gamer in your life, chances are that you have heard of Spore, the latest creation from the super successful inventor of ‘The Sims’. Spore lets players digitally design and evolve new organisms ranging from single-celled microbes to intergalactic aliens. In the [...]
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Mapmaking and conquest has a disturbingly close history. As indigenous people learned, the innocuous mapmaker may be followed by weapons, property claims and exploitation. So too for the recent rash of science projects using mapping
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Written for The Ecologist – 20/07/2008 If radical vegan Ingrid Newkirk has her way, the nouvelle cuisine on vegetarian menus in five years time may be a big juicy steak. Newkirk, founder and president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), has offered a $1 million prize to whoever can scale-up stem cell [...]
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Biofuels fuel global food crisis Toronto Star/star.com July 08, 2008 PAT MOONEY As G8 leaders meet this week in Japan, their ears will still be ringing from the bombshell dropped last week in a leaked World Bank report declaring that biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75 per cent, far higher than previously [...]
Friday, June 27th, 2008
Testimony of Pat Mooney Executive Director of ETC Group Before the Standing Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources-regarding Bill C-33 (the “Biofuels Bill”) Senate of Canada Wednesday, June 25, 2008 Thank you. I will begin by confessing that I am not an expert on biofuels. I feel as though my life has been [...]
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Review by Hope Shand, research director of ETC Group. —– In October 1996, a spokesman for Monsanto told Farm Journal why his company was buying up seed companies left and right: “What you’re seeing is not just a consolidation of seed companies, it’s really a consolidation of the entire food chain.” Today, Monsanto is the [...]
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Now that you can drive your ‘nano’ car, listening to your ipod ‘nano’ while wearing ‘nano’ sunscreen and ‘nano’ clothing, the UK’s largest organic certifier has just introduced the perfect nano-antidote – a ‘nano-free’ standard for consumer products. The Soil Association – one of the world’s pioneers of organic agriculture announced today that it is [...]
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