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[The Ethicurean: Chew the right thing. » Digest] “The Failure of Science”: New paper makes a damning case against ...: Lotter salts the paper with statements such as “This is a story of how a grand scientific vision, plant transgenics, a science that its developers believed would vastly improve the world food supply while at the same time generating huge profits, blinded many of those scientist-developers to the increasingly serious flaws in the basic model, mechanics, and end-products of the enterprise.” And later: “This early industry pressure and science community compliance for a premature green light for transgenic crops is now coming back to bite the industry and the science community, and bite them very seriously.”

[Writing Material] Writing Material » Review (pt. III): Technological Ecologies ...: Andrew Feenberg’s work, especially Transforming Technology, emphasizes that in order to become active participants who can affect real, material change, people must have a sense that particular changes are necessary and possible in relationship to individual people. But fundamental to that premise is the importance of people’s perceptions of how technologies are developed, how they operate, and the potential for changing those technologies.

[Rhizome Inclusive: News, Blog, and Digest] Rhizome | Report From FutureSonic 2009: With next year's reemergence as "FutureEverything", Hemment hopes that the festival will attract even more practitioners in multiple fields. Despite the festival's rich history, Hemment saw its name as a crutch in attracting a wider range of audiences and artist networks to get involved.

[voice of progress] Bacterium from Daqing oil field can digest the hydrocarbon n ...: Hong-Qi Wang and Yan-Jun Chen from the College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University, along with Bo-Ya Qin of the Ministry of Environmental Protection of China, have investigated the activity of enzymes from the bacterium Bacillus cereus DQ01. This bacterium initially isolated from the Daqing oil field in North East China where it had evolved the ability to digest the hydrocarbon n-hexadecane.

[Halfbakery: recent] Halfbakery: Emergency Crystal Radio: I know nothing right this second, but efficiency and amplification are not the only issues. There's also robustness, ecological impact and ease of construction from bits lying around by someone with relatively little talent and skill, and the unavailability of the likes of vacuum pumps and clean rooms.

[Natural Newswire] Natural Newswire: Sara Snow, Margaret Wittenberg, Ken Cook, And ...: In fact, switching to an organic diet for just five days virtually eliminates any sign of exposure to organophosphate insecticides among school-age children.” Source: Successes and Lost Opportunities to Reduce Children’s Exposure to Pesticides Since the Mid-1990s,” Critical Issues Report, August 2006.

[Economist's View] Economist's View: Arrow: Crisis a Challenge to Standard Economic ...: Simply recognizing the market failures that are present in these markets due to asymmetric information and other problems is a first step to taking corrective action. For too long it was assumed that these markets would self-correct for any problems due to information asymmetries, agency problems, excessive market concentration and power, etc., but we know that that is not always the case.

[The Ethicurean: Chew the right thing. » Digest] Meet menhaden - before this ecologically critical fish vanishes ...: A question for Frank:  could you ask your local NOAA scientists for some references that demonstrate that the menhaden population is safe?  That’s a significantly different conclusion than the reviewed book’s author reaches and it would be nice to see some documentation.  Lots of other fish have been viewed as “prolific”, like the California sardine, and then the fishery suddenly collapses.   (The Gulf of Mexico “Dead Zone” has been covered in many news digests at this site and touched on in several feature pieces, including the piece above.)

[The Argument] Meat: the slavery of our time | The Argument: Zoologist Desmond Morris makes a case for vegetarianism in his 1967 book, The Naked Ape: "It could be argued that, since our primate ancestors had to make do without a major meat component in their diets we should be able to do the same. We were driven to become flesh eaters only by environmental circumstances, and now that we have the environment under control, with elaborately cultivated crops at our disposal, we might be expected to return to our ancient feeding patterns."

[Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog] Azim Premji asks IT sector to not fall into 'India Advantage' trap: SINGAPORE/MANILA - With a billion dollar revenue fraud dealing the Indian IT sector a body blow, BPO firms in the Philippines are hoping to make capital by getting some of the business from the West. Leading politician Representative Joseph Santiago said the unravelling of the massive revenue fraud at Satyam Computer Services would dissuade multinational companies from seeking BPO services in India.

[Low Impact Living] Low Impact Living » Blog Archive » Economic Downturn Presents ...: While investing in gold, the stock market or bonds comes with risk and uncertainty, investing in your health and fitness comes with little risk and great reward. So this recession, look for a silver lining and consider making an investment which is likely to have long term financial and ecological payoffs””improving your health.

[ecomii renewable energy blog] Biodiesel Dissolves Polystyrene! - from ecomii blogs: Eytan joined the Forest Guild staff in 2005 and works on several community forestry projects on public lands and on landscape scale forest planning in New Mexico and Colorado. His duties are focused on multiparty monitoring for ecological and socio-economic indicators, providing technical assistance to forest restoration projects, and managing the Model Forest Program.

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