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dinsdag 14 april 2009
Duitsland weert genetisch gemanipuleerde maïs
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Mooi!!!
donderdag 12 maart 2009
The Multiple Ways Monsanto is Putting Normal Seeds Out of Reach
Not so simple. Where are farmers supposed to get normal seed these days? How are they supposed to avoid contamination of their fields from GM-crops? How are they supposed to stop Monsanto detectives from trespassing or Monsanto from using helicopters to fly over spying on them?
Monsanto contaminates the fields, trespasses onto the land taking samples and if they find any GMO plants growing there (or say they have), they then sue, saying they own the crop. It’s a way to make money since farmers can’t fight back and court and they settle because they have no choice.
And they have done and are doing a bucket load of things to keep farmers and everyone else from having any access at all to buying, collecting, and saving of NORMAL seeds.
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donderdag 8 januari 2009
De Somalische "piraten"
Opvallende invalshoek op de veelbesproken "piraterij-kwestie", door Johann Hari bij de Independent. Nederlandse vertaling beschikbaar op Zaplog, door TDE9.
vrijdag 31 oktober 2008
De eerste elektrische scooter op zonne-energie!
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Ik ga er voor sparen. (nee, niet lenen!) Maar Nederland zou Nederland niet zijn als er straks niet op de één of andere manier belasting op zonne-energie geheven gaat worden...
maandag 27 oktober 2008
donderdag 18 september 2008
Gifschandaal rond Arcelor Mittal
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maandag 1 september 2008
"Kernenergie en biobrandstof geen oplossing"
woensdag 20 augustus 2008
Does EPA know pesticides are killing honeybees?
Honeybees are extremely valuable, tireless little workers. According to USDA, they pollinate about one-third of all of the food we eat and pollination is responsible for $15 billion in added crop value.
During the winter of 2006-2007, some beekeepers began to report unusually high losses of 30-90 percent of their hives. This phenomenon has been called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) because of its sudden onset.
What’s causing CCD? Theories range from cell phones to Israeli acute paralysis virus (IAPV) and everything in between. But ask any beekeeper (I’ve talked with several) and they’ll point to what they say is the main culprit - pesticides.
Na de War on Drugs, de War on Terror, nu ook de War on the Light Brown Apple Moth
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donderdag 7 augustus 2008
Protesteren tot je een ons weegt
‘Bomenkap Awacs-bos niet slecht voor milieu’ kopte Dagblad De Limburger gisteren. Wrange constatering voor de inwoners van de gemeenten Schinveld, Merkelbeek en Brunssum die de afgelopen jaren samen met de activisten van Groenfront hebben gestreden tegen de plannen van de Amerikaanse vliegbasis in Geilenkirchen. In 2006 was ik er zelf bij. Als journalist bezocht ik met mijn ouders - die hun afkeer van de gang van zaken rond de Awacs-vliegtuigen niet onder stoelen of banken steken - het provisorische onderkomen van de activisten in de bossen vlakbij de basis. Buurtbewoners snelden af en aan met koffie, warme chocolademelk, soep, dekens en steunbetuigingen.
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maandag 25 februari 2008
Mysterieuze bijensterfte in het Groene Hart
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Please Lord, not the bees
’Bijensterfte erger dan opwarming aarde’
woensdag 13 februari 2008
’Bijensterfte erger dan opwarming aarde’
,,De oprukkende varroa destructor mijt zorgt voor grote bijensterfte. Economisch kan dit probleem erger worden dan de opwarming van de aarde. Want zonder bijen, geen bestuiving en geen landbouw.''
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Please Lord, not the bees
It sounds like the start of a Kurt Vonnegut novel:
Nobody worried all that much about the loss of a few animal species here and there until one day the bees came to their senses and decided to quit producing an unnaturally large surplus of honey for our benefit. One by one, they went on strike and flew off to parts unknown.
Among the various mythologies of the apocalypse, fear of insect plagues has always loomed larger than fear of species loss. But this may change, as a strange new plague is wiping out our honey bees one hive at a time. It has been named Colony Collapse Disorder, or CCD, by the apiculturalists and apiarists who are scrambling to understand and hopefully stop it. First reported last autumn in the U.S., the list of afflicted countries has now expanded to include several in Europe, as well as Brazil, Taiwan, and possibly Canada. (1)(24)(29)
Read more at GNN