Kevin Roose, New York Times, 2 Nov 2011 In this verdant lawn-filled college town, most people keep their lawn mowers tuned up by oiling the motor and sharpening the blades. Eddie Miller keeps his in shape with salt licks and shearing scissors. Mr. Miller, 23, is the founder of Heritage Lawn Mowing, a company that [...]
Kathleen Blanchard in EmaxHealth, 22 Oct 2011. Environmental pollution linked to 450 percent boost in birth defects. Scientists say environmental pollutants raise the chances of some birth defects as much as 450 percent. […]
ENEWSPF, Washington DC, 14 October 2011 Researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden have found that environmental toxicants such as dioxins, PCBs, and pesticides can pose a risk for cardiovascular disease. […]
By Fran Korten, Yes Magazine, 20 Sept 2011 In spite of the daily discouraging environmental, political, and economic news, coaxing living things to grow somehow seems to make folks optimistic. […]
Earth Open Source, 3 Oct 2011 On 28 September 2011, the scientist at the centre of the global row over glyphosate/Roundup herbicide and birth defects met with representatives of the German government to present his scientific findings that Roundup herbicide and the chemical on which it is based, glyphosate, cause birth defects in laboratory animals. [...]
France24 Focus, 21 Sept 2011. For the first time ever, a country – India – is accusing a multinational company of "bio-piracy". That means stealing indigenous plants, and then trying to develop genetically modified versions of them, without giving any compensation back to the local people or nation where the plant originally came from. [...]
Business Wire, 16 Sept 2011. Rodale Institute today announces the latest results of the Farming Systems Trial, America's longest running side-by-side comparison of organic and conventional farming practices. Originally created to study the transition from conventional to organic production, this 30-year study also examined productivity, soil quality, energy and economics. […]
Jason Gale and Duane Stanford, bloomberg.net, 16 Sept 2011. Nestle SA (NESN), GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK) and SAB Miller SA face health lobbyists next week in New York as the first United Nations General Assembly on disease since the 2001 AIDS summit tries to combat the world’s biggest killers. […]
Aparna Pallavi, downtoearth.com, 31 Aug 2011 “My major work on the farm is just picking the harvest,” says Raghava with a straight face. It takes some time for the fact to sink in that this young farmer is not joking. One begins to believe him only after visiting his coconut plantation in village Mallanayakanahalli in [...]
Eliza Barclay, NPR News, 10 Aug 2011 Proponents of organic meat often make the case that it's inherently better for people's health and the environment than meat raised by conventional farming methods. But the actual impacts of organic production can be tough for scientists to prove. […]
