Category: Sustainability
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Tanzania Blocks GMO Field Trials Again Amid Fear of Seed Instability
The cancellation of GMO trials in Tanzania is a bold move to preserve the nation’s biodiversity and to protect the environment and people.
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Modified Genes: A Comprehensive Guide to Genetically Modified Foods
What a GMO is, the process of genetic engineering, health and environmental impacts, and potential uses for the technology around the globe.
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Atlanta Converts Vacant ‘Food Desert’ into the Nation’s Largest Free Food Forest
“Residents still talk about the land’s former owners, who left excess produce from their farm on fence posts for neighbors to claim and enjoy.”
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Moroccan Students Build Off-Grid ‘Hemp House’ Made Almost Entirely from Hemp and Solar Panels
This Moroccan ‘hemp house’ shows the world that environmentally sustainable construction is possible.
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Adidas Vows to Use Only Recycled Plastic as Market Shifts Toward “Conscious Capitalism”
The more that people understand their power as consumers, the quicker we can live in a world that’s not just safe and sustainable – but also free.
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Hawaii Bans Most Sunscreens in Effort to Save Dwindling Coral Reefs
“This bill is a small first step worldwide to really caring about our corals and our reefs in a way that no one else anywhere in the world has done.”
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Scientists Warn Bananas May Face Extinction Due to Lack of Genetic Diversity
“To carry on growing the same genetic banana is stupid… It is necessary that we improve the Cavendish through genetic engineering.”
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Company Develops Revolutionary Way to Create Leather, Wood, and Bricks from Mushrooms
Researchers at a San Francisco Bay startup company have discovered a way to counteract environmental degradation.
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Farmer Converts 40,000 Acres into Largest Organic Farm in Canada
By 2020, Heide’s 40,000 acre plot is set to be Canada’s largest organic farm.
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5 Issues to Unify Us in the Divide and Conquer Era of Trump
It’s important that we don’t get so caught up in arguing over something we have no control over that progress made on real issues is lost.