Patriotism that loves our country, our land, and our planet
As we reported yesterday, Monsanto has been given the go-ahead by a compliant Department of Agriculture to sell it’s Genetically Modified (GMO) sugar beet seeds for the spring planting. There are some restrictions designed to prevent contamination of organic farms with Monsanto’s designer genes, but very limited (See: Friday, the USDA quietly announced deregulation of [...]
Is the Chevy Volt gonna save the planet? Probably not anything that dramatic, but it may save GM, and save a lot of tons of CO2 in the process. Here’s the message Chevy sent out to America during yesterday’s Super Bowl, which fits in rather nicely with President Obama’s call for a Sputnik moment in American [...]
The US Department of Agriculture continues its unprecedented give-away to big agriculture monster Monsanto and its Genetically Modified (GMO) seeds. On Friday, while the media was preoccupied with the Superbowl and Egypt’s rioting, the USDA quietly announced it was deregulating Monsanto’s GMO sugar beets – despite a court order. This move comes just a week [...]
Not sure what happened at the COP 16 climate summit in Cancun back in December? Worried that the issue of global warming wasn’t really dealt with by the assembled nations of the world in a mature, sensible way? Here’s a quick easy summary that covers the whole thing… in two minutes! With hand puppets! Just [...]
After leaving the words “climate change”, “global warming”, and even “environment” out of his State of the Union address, it’s good to hear President Obama speaking about them again – this time in a speech to students at Penn State University. The talk focused on green building, energy efficiency, and combating climate disaster – not [...]
They said they were gonna do it, and they did it. The GOP has introduced what they are creatively calling the “Energy Tax Prevention Act.” What it actually does is block the EPA from enforcing the clean air act- as recognized by the Supreme Court – and increasing US output of greenhouse gases. “We firmly [...]
The good news: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service settled a lawsuit by agreeing to stop allowing Genetically Modified (GMO) crops to be grown in National Wildlife Refuges. This only applies to Refuges in the Northeast, but it’s a start. The bad news – what the heck is going on here? Why on Earth are [...]
President Obama is making good on his threat to sunset subsidies for big oil. In the 2011 budget he’s proposing to wipe out tax breaks and incentives to the tune of $36.5 billion dollars. But before you get too excited – that’s over ten years. So it’s really just $3.65 billion per year, less than [...]
How “local and sustainable” is the produce you’re buying at your local farmers market? There is a troubling article today on a site called “The Perishable Pundit.” Jim Prevor, the author, is an extremely well respected source of information for the fresh produce industry. It’s safe to say that most people in that business follow [...]
Why did Tom Vilsack completely cave and approve Monsanto’s Gene Modified (GMO) alfalfa without any restrictions at all? He was pushing an alternative – approval with some restrictions – to protect organic farmers – but it looks like a combination of pressure from the new GOP Congress, industry, and the White House killed that. Vilsack [...]
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