Patriotism that loves our country, our land, and our planet
While it’s admirable that the EPA is taking a look at the impact of toxins in California’s Sacramento Delta, they appear to be ignoring the 500-pound gorilla in the room: big agriculture that takes vast amounts of water from the system. Unless they deal with that issue, nothing else they do is going to work. The U.S. [...]
The Tea Party Express, the conservative group that helped push far-right (and anti-environment) candidates in the 2010 election, announced today that they will be taking on Maine’s moderate Republican Senator, Olympia Snowe. Snowe joins a growing list of Republican incumbents who are vulnerable to challenges from the right. Snowe has been a bona fide moderate in her 12 years [...]
The dominoes continue to fall. The European Union is expected to announce a controversial plan to allow genetically modified crops into Europe for the first time – without regulatory approval. For now, it’s just animal feed, and it’s just crops that have been “slightly contaminated’ by GMOs. But come on, we all saw this coming, [...]
(Note – this story has been updated to reflect the fact that at the time Ann Veneman served on the board of Calgene, it had not yet been purchased by Monsanto.) For years, there’s been an open revolving door in Washington – sending workers from the Federal government to Monsanto and Monsanto back to the [...]
One of the most persistent myths promulgated by advocates of the privately-funded Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative is that the so-called “marine protected areas” created under the process are “based on science.” However, the “science” that the MLPA is based on is extremely shaky. In the 7 years since Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger privatized the [...]
In 2008, the National Agricultural Statistics Service of the USDA (USDA-NASS) conducted a very detailed and comprehensive survey of Organic agriculture in the US. It was published last year but got little notice. It is interesting to study the data and to compare it to the equivalent statistics that are available for the rest of [...]
Via SkepticalScience (“Getting skeptical about global warming skepticism”), we were pointed to this excellent talk on the impact climate change will have on the oceans. (SkepticalScience is a great resource for debunking climate denier arguments.) John Bruno, one of the participants, posted the discussion by his friend and colleague Dr. Ove Hoegh-Guldberg from a session the two of them organized on climate [...]
As Congressional Republicans and others search for budget cuts (without addressing any of the really big ticket items), one of the programs they are targeting is the small national support for wheat breeding. Representatives of the wheat industry are mobilizing to try to let the politicians know why that is a really bad idea! Even [...]
Have California Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) officials been trying to avoid public scrutiny by holding illegal non-public meetings? That’s the accusation George Osborn, spokesman for the Partnership for Sustainable Oceans (PSO), presented in a 25 page document to the California Fish and Game Commission during its meeting on February 2 in Sacramento. The MLPA [...]
As the US government continues to coddle agriculture giant Monsanto, the Mexican government is standing tall – turning down the company’s Genetically Modified (GMO) corn. After an 11-year moratorium on GMOs, Mexico had approved a small project with Monsanto and two other companies, but isn’t ready to go further into a full pilot program. “Corn [...]
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