An Interview with Michael Pollan
11/12/08
Posted by Truth About Trade & Technology
The Progressive
http://www.truthabouttrade.org/content/view/12729/54/
November 8, 2008: Michael Pollan has got people talking. His recent books, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals and In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, have captured the public imagination, setting off countless coffee shop discussions, dinnertime arguments, and oh-so-many [...]
Eating is a Political Act: an Interview with Michael Pollan
Some Good News: AT&T to Install Energy-Saving Software
Author: Jeanette Wiemers, Climate Change Corp
http://www.climatechangecorp.com/content.asp?ContentID=5768
Communications provider AT&T recently launched a new programme on over 300,000 PCs within its organisation to turn the computers off during non-peak hours, saving more than 135 million kilowatt hours of electricity and 123,941 tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year. The power management software from 1E is called NightWatchman, [...]
Obama’s Historic Victory
By Howard Zinn
CommonDreams.org, http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/11/08-0
Those of us on the Left who have criticized Obama, as I have, for his failure to take bold positions on the war and on the economy, must join the exultation of those Americans, black and white, who shouted and wept Tuesday night as they were informed that Barack Obama had won [...]
GM Corn Continues to Invade Mexico
Source: Nature.com
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081112/full/456149a.html
By Rex Dalton
Transgenes from genetically modified (GM) maize (corn) crops have been found in traditional ‘landrace’ maize in the Mexican heartland, a study says. The work largely confirms a similar, controversial result published in Nature in 2001 and may reignite the debate in Mexico over GM crops.
The paper reports finding transgenes in three of [...]
