By JULIE SCELFO of the New York Times
Published: December 23, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/24/dining/24chem.html
WEEKS after its own advisory board accused the Food and Drug Administration of failing to adequately consider research about the dangers of bisphenol-A, found in many plastic baby bottles, plastic food containers and metal can linings, the agency has agreed to reconsider the issue.
The F.D.A.’s draft risk assessment [...]
New Studies on GE Corn
Current threads on GE Corn
1. A study sponsored by the Austrian Ministries for Agriculture and Health found that mice fed a genetically engineered corn developed by Monsanto Company produced fewer offspring than those fed conventional corn.
Read the full story by Ken Roseboro, ed., the Organic and Non-GMO Report, December 2008 via the Organic [...]
Organic Consumers Unite: Stand Up Against Vilsack for USDA
Despite a massive public outcry, including over 20,000 emails from the Organic Consumers Association, President-Elect Obama has chosen former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack to be the next Secretary of Agriculture.
Sign OCA’s Petition to the US Senate Now!
While Vilsack has promoted respectable policies with respect to restraining livestock monopolies, his overall record is one of aiding [...]
Who Owns Nature?: the ETC Group’s Latest Report on the Corporate Race to Control Food
Download the latest report [published November 13] at
http://www.etcgroup.org/en/materials/publications.html?pub_id=707
All of the players are named:
Monsanto, Dow, DuPont, Syngenta, Bayer, BASF, etc.
Air-powered Cars Coming to the United States
posted by Kevin Spiess @ Neoseeker
http://www.neoseeker.com/news/9145-inexpensive-and-efficient-air-powered-cars-coming-to-us-in-2011/
Hydrogen powered cars might be the next big step up in commuter vehicle efficiency, but they still need a lot more work to really get things rolling. Coming sooner, the Air Car might prove to be a good cost-effective choice for folks who want to spend less on gas.
The [...]
GM Must Re-Make the Mass Transit System it Murdered
by Harvey Wasserman
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/11/16-6
Bail out General Motors? The people who murdered our mass transit system?
First let them remake what they destroyed.
GM responded to the 1970s gas crisis by handing over the American market to energy-efficient Toyota and Honda.
GM met the rise of the hybrids with “light trucks.”
GM built a small electric car, leased a pilot fleet [...]
Eating is a Political Act: an Interview with Michael Pollan
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 [...]
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, [...]
Toward a Future Coalition: the Green Growth Alliance
By Van Jones
as appears in The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081117/jones
My background is in the struggles for racial justice and criminal justice reform. As such, I’ve always felt an affinity for Cinque, the hero of the slave-revolt movie Amistad. In that film, based on a true story, the righteous, enslaved Africans fight back and take over the slave ship.
The people [...]
