Category Archive for “synthetic biology”
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
Silvia Ribeiro* Se está realizando en Durban, Sudáfrica, la 17ª Conferencia de las Partes del Convenio Marco de Naciones Unidas sobre Cambio Climático (COP17) y por su falta de contacto con la realidad de la crisis climática –y de todas las demás, financiera, alimentaria, ambiental – parece ciencia ficción. Ante la vacuidad de las negociaciones, [...]
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Filed under: Civil Society, Climate Change, Geo-engineering, Global Governance, synthetic biology
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
Jim Thomas Cuándo sus defensores hablan de la “economía verde”, gran parte de lo “verde” que tienen en mente es literalmente de color verde. Las hojas, brotes, ramas, algas, hierbas y otras materias vivientes que el planeta genera en aparente abundancia es ahora un blanco de primera línea para la explotación comercial, desde la visión [...]
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Posted by: Veronica
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Filed under: Biopiracy, Biotechnology, Civil Society, Climate Change, Corporate Concentration, Food Sovereignty, Geo-engineering, Global Governance, Intellectual Property/Patents, Nanotechnology, Sustainable Agriculture, synthetic biology
Monday, October 10th, 2011
Silvia Ribeiro A 20 años de la Conferencia de Naciones Unidas sobre Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo (Cumbre de la Tierra o Eco´92) se realizará una nueva conferencia global, en junio 2012, en Río de Janeiro, Brasil. Río+20, como se le llama, ocurrirá en medio de las mayores crisis globales del siglo: devastación ambiental y erosión [...]
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Posted by: Veronica
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Filed under: Biopiracy, Biotechnology, Civil Society, Climate Change, Corporate Concentration, Geo-engineering, Global Governance, Nanotechnology, synthetic biology
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
*Silvia Ribeiro Con creciente entusiasmo, empresas, políticos y algunos científicos nos hablan de cómo se van a resolver los desastres ambientales, la crisis energética y climática, y hasta el hambre, con el uso de “biomasa” en lugar de combustibles fósiles. Se presenta como un elemento fundamental de una transición a una nueva “economía verde”, y [...]
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Posted by: Veronica
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Filed under: Biotechnology, Civil Society, Climate Change, Corporate Concentration, synthetic biology
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. [...]
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Posted by: Jim
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Filed under: BANG - Converging Technologies, Biotechnology, Corporate Concentration, Geo-engineering, Nanotechnology, synthetic biology, Terminator Technology/ New Enclosures
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 [...]
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Filed under: BANG - Converging Technologies, Biotechnology, synthetic biology