Oct. 15, Blog Action Day

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Chemical companies, employing gene scientists, have long been fiddling with seeds to produce resistance to pests and a synergy with certain manufactured chemicals to ensure optimal yield. What does this mean? For those who don’t like complicated concepts, it means that the food we eat has been changed so that it responds to [...]

“The Age of Stupid” Trailer

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“Living a Nightmare: Animal Factories in Michigan”

A 24-minute documentary about the horrors of industrial agriculture in Michigan. When you hear politicians pining about the family farm way of life, be aware; this is what they are really causing with their lack of inaction and outright collusion with industrial agriculture concerns.

Is it too much to ask?

Wetter and wilder: the signs of warming everywhere
In the third part of our series on the eve of the Poznan conference, we look at how climate change is already changing ordinary people’s lives from Australia to Brazil

When animals attack…

Marauding elephants, aggressive sea lions, snap-happy crocodiles… As animal attacks on humans reach frightening levels, scientists are beginning to understand exactly what the beasts are thinking. And it’s not good. Will Storr reports for the UK’s Telegraph here

The march of the nano-franken-bots

Nano-particles. Most everyone has heard of them these days. But do we really know the long term effects on our health and ecosystem of these completely new structures being created and fast becoming part of everyday life?
There are over 600 corporate products that allege using nano-particles. Particles so small some are capable [...]