What Would Happen if We all Grew Food?
By Patrick M. Lydon, FinalStraw.org
Why GMO? How many people could all the empty yards in a suburban block feed if they were put to use growing food?
Tag: GMO
Dark Age America: The Sharp Edge of the Shell
By John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report
The denunciation meted out to Bill Nye for bringing basic concepts from ecology into a discussion where they were highly relevant is par for the course these days.
Why GMO labeling in the U.S. needs to win only once
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
There were no doubt celebrations last week in the boardrooms of corporations that own patents to the world's genetically engineered crops. Proposals to label foods containing these crops--commonly called GMOs for genetically modified organisms--were defeated soundly in Colorado and barely in Oregon.
The more uncertain we are, the more careful we should be
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
It is a staple of apologists for the chemical and fossil fuel industries to say, "We have no proof that what you are talking about is dangerous." Let me restate that in probabilistic terms: "We are highly uncertain about the harm of what you are talking about."