Monday, December 8th, 2008
Jim Thomas Written for The Ecologist- December/January 2009 The extreme climate technologists behind monochrome schemes to slow global warming are one colour short of a palette It is hardly high-tech, but if Hashem Akbari is to be believed, a reprieve from the climate crisis might be found in a few million tonnes of white gloss [...]
Friday, October 10th, 2008
Apparently in some places they call Hong Kong “Disneyland”. What better place than among the sci-fitowers of this gotham-city landscape for the brave new pioneers of Synthetic Biology to gather, plan and celebrate the next stage of artificial life. For the next few days Synthetic Biology 4.0, the fourth global congress of syn bio leaders, [...]
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
Henry Ford dreamed of making plastic cars out of soy. Now Dow, DuPont and other chemical giants are also dreaming of a ‘green’ future. But, as Jim Thomas argues, bioplastic is not the eco-solution it’s cracked up to be. Article from New Internationalist Magazine September 2008 issue – available online here The future of plastic [...]
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Can science save the planet or should we avoid putting our faith in high-tech fixes to deliver us from the ecological mess we‘ve made? Jim Thomas and Paul Fitzgerald push each other’s buttons. Read the debate here in the latest issue of New Internationalist Magazine: http://www.newint.org/features/special/2008/08/01/technofixes/
Friday, June 6th, 2008
During the United Nations High-Level Conference on World Food Security, Climate Change and Bioenergy, Rome-based U.N. agencies announced yesterday that a new partnership was struck between the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and the World [...]
Friday, January 25th, 2008
Can you spot the missing vowel in this Washington Post headline?! Md. Scientists Build Bacterial Chromosome Scientists in Maryland yesterday said they had built from scratch an entire microbial chromosome, a loop of synthetic DNA carrying all the instructions that a simple cell needs to live and reproduce…
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 [...]
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
On January 15, 2008, these two headlines shared the same Google News page. What’s wrong with this picture? “F.D.A. Says Cloned Animals Safe to Eat” and “188000 Pounds Of Tainted Beef Recalled”
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Esteriliza las semillas y amenaza la agricultura familiar y las costumbres tradicionales Este jueves fue desestimado por la Comisión de Medio Ambiente de la Cámara de Diputados, por 15 votos a 4, el Proyecto de Ley 268/2007 —redactado por el diputado federal Eduardo Sciarra (DEM – PR)— que busca modificar la Ley de Bioseguridad para [...]
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