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News from the Washington Post:
USDA
Defines 'Organic'
Consumers get a reliable standard for buying produce free from
pesticides, genetic engineering and hormones. |
News from the Environmental News Service...(www.ens.lycos.com)
| 31 August 2000 |
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 | Organic
Versus Genetic Debate Dominates Swiss Conference
| BASEL, Switzerland,
August 31, 2000 (ENS) - Home to chemical giants Roche and
Novartis, Basel might not seem the obvious place to host a
discussion on organic agriculture, but that has not stopped
more than 1,000 delegates from displaying their expertise at a
nine day conference here. The World Grows Organic - 13th
International Scientific Conference is accompanied by events
ranging from how to improve your organic wine to
demonstrations of the latest eco-friendly detergents. Full
Stor |
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| American
Wildlands Endangered By Old Enemies Plus a New Threat
| WASHINGTON, DC, May
26, 2000 (ENS) - They range from towering mountains to
sprawling river deltas, from the frozen Arctic to the
burning desert. Today, the Wilderness Society released its
annual list of America’s most endangered wild lands,
blaming old enemies like logging, mining and overgrazing
and a singular new threat - off road vehicles - for the
damage done to the nation’s wilderness. Full
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UK Uproar Over Genetically Modified Seed
LONDON, UK, May 17, 2000 (ENS) - British environmentalists are
warning that genetically modified crops and foods are entering and
spreading through Europe without controls, after a seed supplier sent
biotech rapeseed mixed in with its other product to the UK by mistake.
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Germany Bans
Novartis Biotech Maize
| BERLIN, Germany, February 18, 2000
(ENS) - In what environmental groups have described as a
"sensational" move, German health minister Andrea Fischer
yesterday called a last minute halt to authorisation for a genetically
modified (GM) crop variety. The variety of corn, or maize, affected by
the ban is made by the Swiss agricultural biotechnology firm Novartis. Full
Story |
| Toxic
Mud Fouls U.S. Waters
By Cat Lazaroff
WASHINGTON, DC, November 9, 1999 (ENS) - A serious
environmental problem may be lurking in the mud under the placid waters
of U.S. lakes, rivers and ocean shores. Environmental groups say
millions of tons of toxic contaminated sediment from harbors and
shipping channels are dredged each year, then dumped back into waters
where they can poison humans and wildlife. (full
story
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Monsanto
Shelves Terminator Seeds
| ST. LOUIS, Missouri, October 6,
1999 (ENS) - The agricultural biotech firm Monsanto has announced it
will not commercialize technologies that render seeds sterile. In an
open letter to Rockefeller Foundation president Gordon Conway on Monday,
Monsanto CEO Robert Shapiro pledged, "I am writing to let you know
that we are making a public commitment not to commercialize sterile seed
technologies, such as the one dubbed "Terminator." Full
Story |
Other news...
Farmers, Farming, and Related Articles:
Farming is Not Industry: http://www.hcn.org/1994/nov14/dir/essay.html
Articles, Reviews, and Bibliographies
| Insect Pollination of Cultivated
Crop Plants
| Arid Region Farming
Primer [ECHO]
| "Ancient Hawaii: A
Model of Sustainable Agriculture, by Robert H. Faust.
| Container
Farming: Organic Food Production in Slums of Mexico City, by Rodrigo A.
Medellín Erdmann. [1/98]
(Table
of Contents for this issue of GATE)
| "A
Matter of Survival: How Agricultural Biodiversity can be
Maintained" by Nelson Alvarez
| Issue no.
1, 2,
3 or 4
of Craig Dremann's "Native Grass Gossip"
| "Seeds
of the Future" by Christina Waters.
| Vegetable
Bytes, a Vegetable and Row Crop Newsletter (Sutter and Yuba counties,
California)
| "The
Gospel According to Wes Jackson"
| "Rural
Philosophy for Education: Wendell Berry's Tradition," by Paul
Theobald
| Green & Growing Environmental
Education Project has published From the Ground up, a teachers'
guide to agriculture, food, and sustainable development.
| "An
Outlaw Grain Comes Back" (Amaranth) by Diane Sussman
| "Solving the
Slurry Problem" by John Seymour
| Cover
Crop Biology: A Minireview, part 1. by Robert L. Bugg
| "Farm as Form: Wendell
Berry's Sabbaths" by Jeffery Alan Triggs
| The Excrement Poem, by
Maxine Kumin
| "Three
Agricultural Fallacies" by Wendell Berry
| "Sustainable
Farming Systems in Colombia"
| Biomass
Fuel from Woody Crops for Electric Power Generation by Robert D. Perlack,
et al.
| Choix
des espèces adaptées au milieu urbain
| "Ascorbic
Acid and Vitamin A Content of Edible Wild Plants of Ohio and Kentucky" by
Thomas M. Zennie and C. Dwayne Ogzewalla
| Economic
Botany (Edible, Herbal, Medicinal and Useful Plants; Ethnobotany) [a
bibliography]
| The Practical Farmer:
Quarterly Newsletter of Practical Farmers of Iowa [Use your mail address
as the password.]
| Sustainable
Agriculture and Permaculture bibliography
| SUSAG
Abstracts |
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