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Dave Murphy: Will Monsanto’s Loss Result In Less Poison In Our Food?
rganicconsumers.org/ Dave Murphy: Will Monsanto’s Loss Result In Less Poison In Our Food? An update on the situation with glyphosate In November 2016, a very concerning report — Glyphosate: Unsafe On Any Plate — was released by The Detox Project and Food Democracy Now!, raising the alarm of the high levels of glyphosate in the US food supply and the […]
‘Prepare For The Worst’: Florence Strengthens To A Category 4 Hurricane
‘Prepare For The Worst’: Florence Strengthens To A Category 4 Hurricane As Hurricane Florence continues on its path toward the east coast, South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster had some good advice. “Plan for the worst, pray for the best,” said the governor. Hurricane Florence has increased in strength quickly to a category 4 storm, with a […]
Hurricane Florence To Intensify “To Near Category 5 Strength” And There Are 12 Nuclear Power Reactors In The Carolinas
Hurricane Florence To Intensify “To Near Category 5 Strength” And There Are 12 Nuclear Power Reactors In The Carolinas The latest forecast is projecting that Hurricane Florence will strengthen “to near category 5 strength” before it makes landfall in the Carolinas, and it is being called “a serious threat to lives and property”. It is […]
What Might Buildings, Settlements and Even Regions Look Like Through the Lens of Permaculture Design? Part 2
WHAT MIGHT BUILDINGS, SETTLEMENTS AND EVEN REGIONS LOOK LIKE THROUGH THE LENS OF PERMACULTURE DESIGN? PART 2 This is part 2 of 2 of a transcript of a talk given by Paul Jennings to the recent SBUK Big Straw Bale Gathering. Paul has built his straw-bale family home on a ‘One-Planet Development’ smallholding in Wales (costing […]
The 19th-Century Tumult Over Climate Change – And Why It Matters Today
The 19th-Century Tumult Over Climate Change – And Why It Matters Today Back in the 19th century, when tractors were still pulled by horses and the word “computer” meant a person hired to carry out tedious calculations, climate science made front-page news. One European forester remarked in 1901 that few questions had “been debated and addressed […]
5 Likely Hurricane Aftermath Scenarios To Prepare For
5 Likely Hurricane Aftermath Scenarios To Prepare For It is currently hurricane season for the Atlantic and Pacific regions of the United States. As I write this article, Hurricane Florence is a Category 3 storm with the potential to reach Category 4 status. As of now, the storm has an uncertain path, but East Coast […]
Hurricane Florence “Nightmare Scenario” Could Be “Worst Natural Disaster” For Carolinas And Virginia
Hurricane Florence “Nightmare Scenario” Could Be “Worst Natural Disaster” For Carolinas And Virginia The latest report from the National Hurricane Center (NHC) indicates that Hurricane Florence is on the verge of becoming a monster storm, which strengthened rapidly overnight as it continued to gain strength over the Atlantic, 625 miles southeast of Bermuda. Florence had […]
How to Prepare for Hurricane Florence When You Live a Few Hundred Miles Inland
How to Prepare for Hurricane Florence When You Live a Few Hundred Miles Inland When I moved to southwestern Virginia, I really didn’t expect to be dealing with hurricanes. But, as I’ve just learned, a system like Hurricane Florence could affect places that are as much as 350+ miles from the shore. So, if you […]
A kinder, gentler GMO; what could possibly go wrong
A kinder, gentler GMO; what could possibly go wrong? The so-called CRISPR technique for editing the genes of plants and animals is being hailed as a more acceptable face of genetic engineering. After all, it doesn’t rely on the insertion of genes from one species into another—which is what previous techniques allowed and what alarmed […]
China’s Pig Market On Lockdown As African Swine Fever Spreads
China’s Pig Market On Lockdown As African Swine Fever Spreads A series of African Swine Fever outbreaks in China is “here to stay,” the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Friday, adding that it could spread to neighboring countries in Asia. On Wednesday, the FAO assembled an emergency meeting in Bangkok consisting of […]
Bayer Beware: Lawyers Claim To Have “Explosive” Monsanto Documents
Bayer Beware: Lawyers Claim To Have “Explosive” Monsanto Documents Lawyers involved in a California lawsuit against Monsanto claim to have “explosive” documents concerning the Bayer-owned agrochemical giant’s activities in Europe, according to Euronews. “What we have is the tip of the iceberg. And in fact we have documents now in our possession, several hundreds documents, that have not […]
US East Coast On Alert As Tropical Storm Florence Poised To Strengthen
US East Coast On Alert As Tropical Storm Florence Poised To Strengthen The 5 am National Hurricane Center (NHC) Report has indicated that the risk for a direct impact from Tropical Storm Florence has increased, although exactly where on the East Coast remains uncertain. Residents of the East Coast should be on heightened alert for […]
The Fires This Time
The Fires This Time Photo Source Bureau of Land Management Oregon and Washington | CC BY 2.0 This is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen, and for which neither I nor time nor history will ever forgive them, that they have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives […]
