Category: Environment
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Monsanto Defeated
As reported by the Public Patent Foundation, four of Monsanto’s key patents related to genetically modified (GM) crops have been rejected by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. After…
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Closing the Gap
As we push towards a truly green and sustainable revolution, business people and ecologists are increasingly forced to learn one another’s language. Since the inception of environmentalism as a movement,…
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The Photosynthetic Ceiling
The concept of a “photosynthetic ceiling” was first introduced in Jared Diamond’s book Collapse. Though Diamond certainly did not pioneer the idea, as far as I can tell he was…
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Green Is Common Sense
Right-wing media outlets often portray those of us who advocate for the greening of the globe as "liberal" big-government wackos whose ideas have no place in the hard-nosed scrabble of…
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The Question of Agrobiodiversity
Over the past century, we have seen massive loss of agricultural biodiversity, in terms of both species and varieties. The statistics on biodiversity loss in varietal strains are staggering. According…
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The Unravelling Duoply
In many ways, I see partisan politics as a ploy to create the illusion of choice and, in the words of Noam Chomsky, to “manufacture consent”. Polarizing the electorate has…
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Privatizing the Natural World
Many people don’t realize that genetically modified (GMO) foods are already in our diets: in corn, soybeans, canola, and now in alfalfa. According to Will Rostoff, senior attorney at the…
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Information Intensive Agriculture
As Rudolf Steiner argued so many decades ago, the 20th century shift towards input intensive agriculture was, and is, troubling in so many ways. According to Steiner, heavy investments in…
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A Mixed Blessing
Last Thursday I traveled to several rural areas outside of the city of Cochabamba to attend a day-long training in aquaculture systems. Part of the training involved a trip to…
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