Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear
Monsanto already dominates America’s food chain with its genetically modified seeds. Now it has targeted milk production. Just as frightening as the corporation’s tactics–ruthless legal battles against small farmers–is its decades-long history of toxic contamination. Gary Rinehart clearly remembers the summer day in 2002 when the stranger walked in and issued his threat. Rinehart was [...]
Study: Pollination down with bee decline
A decline in the world’s bee population has been accompanied by a drop in pollination critical to the world’s food supplies, a Canadian researcher says. A University of Toronto scientist has found the first evidence of a downward trend in pollination and a possible link to climate change as a cause, a university release says. [...]
Exploring your New Farm Dream – The LocalMotive Project
Exploring Your New Farm Dream: Is Starting an Agricultural Business Right for You? Thinking about starting your own farm business? Want to learn more about the opportunities and realities of farming? This course is designed to help aspiring farmers learn what it takes to start and manage a commercial agricultural business, and decide whether this [...]
Fears grow over global food supply
Russia announced a 12-month extension of its grain export ban on Thursday, raising fears about a return to the food shortages and riots of 2007-08 which spread through developing countries dependent on imports. The announcement by Vladimir Putin came as the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation called an emergency meeting to discuss the wheat shortage, [...]
Building Green | Watch Documentary
Building Green is pioneering and entertaining television with an eco-friendly twist, on a mission is to inspire viewers to discover just how easy, cost-effective and healthy it can be to go green, and to dispel myths about environmentally-conscious lifestyles. Host Kevin Contreras leads an interactive exploration of green building techniques and alternatives, from the eye-popping [...]
Ecoscience and Repression in America
Wendy Powell Lewis Network News Daily Aug 24, 2010 It is not an exaggeration to say that most politicians, and all the paid flunkies, dog paddle in a foul pool of half-truths, commissions, omissions, disinformation, and downright lies, and as it turns out Barack Hussein Obama–even though he walks lightly and looks so fresh and [...]
Energy Conservation: Watts up?
ENVIRONMENTAL asceticism has created a vogue for upgrading light-bulbs and tweaking thermostats. But according to a new piece of research, many of these actions—however virtuous—arise from faulty perceptions of energy savings. Shahzeen Attari of Columbia University and her colleagues used Craigslist, an online marketplace, to recruit 505 volunteers from across America. Each was asked to [...]
The LocalMotive Project
By Shane Jolley – This series of videos by Chris Martenson explains the interactions of economy, energy, and environment and the increasing challenges and opportunities those interactions present. The series is based on US data, and in most cases the Canadian data is comparable on a smaller scale. localmotiveproject.com/video The purpose of The LocalMotive Project is [...]
