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Name: ETC Group

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Bioluminescent plants project could upset the applecart

Hoping to give new meaning to the term “natural light,” a small group of biotechnology hobbyists and entrepreneurs has started a project to develop plants that glow, potentially leading the way for trees that can replace electric streetlamps and potted ... [Published Taipei Times Online - May 13 2013]

Entities: Kickstarter, Genetic Engineering, Synthetic Biology, Organism

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

Stop synbio pollution

1.Kickstopper! - Putting a Stop to Synthetic Biology Pollution2.Counterculture, Cyberculture, and the Third Culture: Reinventing Civilization, Then and NowEXTRACT: The biggest risk is that we do nothing and let the synthetic biologists move ahead with ... [Published GMWatch.org - May 09 2013]

Entities: Synthetic Biology, Kickstarter, ETC Group, Pollution

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Mexico – Ground Zero in the Fight for the Future of Maize

Active Citizens, Biodiversity, Civil Society, Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Environment, Farming Crisis: Filling An Empty Plate, Food & Agriculture, Headlines, Human Rights, Latin America & the Caribbean, Natural Resources, Poverty & MDGs, Projects, ... [Published Inter Press Service - May 08 2013]

Entities: Transgenic, Mexico, Contamination, Ground Zero

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

DIY Synthetic Biologists Creating Glowing Trees (via Kickstarter)

This is so sci-fi it’s positively scary! The home brewing school of science has turned to crowdfunding platform Kickstarter to fund the creation of genetically engineered glow-in-the-dark trees, reports Andrew Pollack for the New York Times:Hoping to ... [Published Disinformation - May 08 2013]

Entities: Kickstarter, ETC Group, Biotechnology

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Friends of the Earth

Genetically engineering trees so they will glow in the dark and replace street lights.

Research by "a small group of hobbyist scientists," funded through Kickstarter. What a dilemma for environmentalists! All the fossil-fuel burning that could be averted, and yet.... Frankenstein! Two environmental organizations, Friends of the Earth ... [Published Althouse - May 08 2013]

Entities: Kickstarter, ETC Group, Genetically Modified Crops, Friends of the Earth

First reported Apr 19 2013 - Updated Apr 19 2013 - 1 reports

Back to our food future

The basement of the IDEA Centre a few doors east of the Osborne Village strip on Wardlaw Avenue in Winnipeg drew a steady stream of people on the distribution days of the Agassiz Food Co-op.It took some skill to manoeuvre boxes packed with organic produce, ... [Published Yukon News - Apr 19 2013]

Entities: Organic, Whitehorse (Canada), Jim Cornelius, Winnipeg, Pat Mooney

First reported Mar 25 2013 - Updated Mar 25 2013 - 1 reports

Luddites of the world unite

Adrian Ely reports from the World Forum on Science and Democracy, finding it somewhat critical of technology's role in our futureFar from an anti-technology jamboree, the third World Forum on Science and Democracy illustrates the diversity of global debates ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Mar 25 2013]

Entities: Dakar, Nanotechnology, Democracy, ETC Group, Geoengineering

First reported Jan 18 2013 - Updated Jan 18 2013 - 1 reports

U.N. urged to freeze climate geo-engineering projects

by Michael Smith (Veshengro) In October 2010 the United Nations was asked to impose a moratorium on "geo-engineering" projects such as artificial volcanoes and vast cloud-seeding schemes to fight climate change, by some green groups, fearing they ... [Published Green (Living) Review - Jan 18 2013]

Entities: Climate, Global Warming/Climate Change, Pat Mooney, ETC Group

Quotes

..." A sentiment echoed in a decision from the UN Convention on Biological Diversity which urged countries to apply the precautionary approach "to the field release of synthetic life, cell, or genome into the environment."

Biohackers kickstarting unregulated experiments [Published GMWatch.org - May 12 2013]

According to a spokesman for the FoodMattersZimbabwe group: "Zimbabweans are under the impression that maize would be imported from Zambia and will be deeply upset by this news to import GM maize from South Africa. The government of Zimbabwe is currently promoting the use of open pollinated varieties (OPVs) of seed to strengthen our farmers' self-reliance. The importation of GM maize poses a serious risk of contaminating our OPV varieties; at the very least this GM maize must be milled before entering the country."

ACB concerned about SA's GM maize exports [Published Biz Community - Apr 19 2013]

A new report from the ETC Group, which describes itself as working "to address the socioeconomic and ecological issues surrounding new technologies that could have an impact on the world's poorest and most vulnerable people" , offers an interesting view of how the big agribusiness companies are trying to do that (pdf)

How Big Agribusiness Is Heading Off The Threat From Seed Generics -- And Failing To Keep The Pate ... [Published Techdirt - Apr 15 2013]

...Rather than fixating on the "traditional"/"modern" dichotomy, however, Amit Sengupta explains that "the network asks how science can build upon the useful knowledge and practices used in rural communities all over the country and the world"

Luddites of the world unite [Published Guardian.co.uk - Mar 25 2013]

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Kickstarter-funded plan to grow glow in the dar... [Published Financial Post \| Business » Entrepreneur - May 16 2013]
Bioluminescent plants project could upset the a... [Published Taipei Times Online - May 13 2013]
Biohackers kickstarting unregulated experiments [Published GMWatch.org - May 12 2013]
Stop synbio pollution [Published GMWatch.org - May 09 2013]
Mexico – Ground Zero in the Fight for the Futur... [Published Inter Press Service - May 08 2013]
DIY Synthetic Biologists Creating Glowing Trees... [Published Disinformation - May 08 2013]
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International open letter: Oppose Drax coal to ... [Published Carbon Trade Watch - Apr 27 2013]
EU mergers and takeovers (April 23) [Published Yahoo! UK and Ireland - Apr 23 2013]
To Reclaim Our Future, We Must Change the Prese... [Published Focus on the Global South - Apr 23 2013]
ACB concerned about SA's GM maize exports [Published Biz Community - Apr 19 2013]
Back to our food future [Published Yukon News - Apr 19 2013]
How Big Agribusiness Is Heading Off The Threat ... [Published Techdirt - Apr 15 2013]
Luddites of the world unite [Published Guardian.co.uk - Mar 25 2013]
Autonomous Organization [Published New. Clear. Vision. - Mar 06 2013]
Seventh communique from Individualists Tending ... [Published 325 - Feb 19 2013]
Another Week of GW News, Feruary 3, 2013 [A Few... [Published ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - Feb 04 2013]
U.N. urged to freeze climate geo-engineering pr... [Published Green (Living) Review - Jan 18 2013]
One solution to the melting ice cap: Refreeze i... [Published National Post - Top Stories - Dec 11 2012]
Biopesticides Industry: Synthetic Pesticide & G... [Published PRWeb - Nov 13 2012]
Synthetic Biology: Jim Thomas [Published Wired Videos - Nov 26 2008]

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Kickstarter-funded plan to grow glow in the dar... [Published Financial Post \| Business » Entrepreneur - May 16 2013] Hoping to give new meaning to the term “natural light,” a small group of biotechnology hobbyists and entrepreneurs has started a project to develop plants that glow, potentially leading the way for trees that can replace electric streetlamps and potted ...
Genetically engineering trees so they will glow... [Published Althouse - May 08 2013] Research by "a small group of hobbyist scientists," funded through Kickstarter. What a dilemma for environmentalists! All the fossil-fuel burning that could be averted, and yet.... Frankenstein! Two environmental organizations, Friends of the Earth ...
How Big Agribusiness Is Heading Off The Threat ... [Published Techdirt - Apr 15 2013] from the bad-taste-in-the-mouth deptRecently we wrote about how pharmaceutical companies use "evergreening" to extend their control over drugs as the patents expire. But this is also an issue for the world of agribusiness: a number of key patents, particularly ...
Autonomous Organization [Published New. Clear. Vision. - Mar 06 2013] Zapatistas and the Struggle for Survival on Planet Earth by Helen Jaccard and Gerry Condon After visiting Guatemala for two months, we crossed the border into Chiapas on December 21 — Winter Solstice and the 13th Baktun — the first day of the ...
Seventh communique from Individualists Tending ... [Published 325 - Feb 19 2013] received and translated by waronsociety : “When the blood of your veins returns to the sea and the dust of your bones returns to the ground,maybe then you will remember that this Earth does not belong to you,you belong to this Earth.”- Native American ...

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Synthetic Biology: Jim Thomas [Published Wired Videos - Nov 26 2008]