New York Times: A Dream of Trees Aglow at Night
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by Andrew Pollack
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Response from 'Glowing Plants' project
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Email sent by Antony Evans
From: Antony Evans
Date: May 7, 2013 1:34:33 PM EDT
Subject: Re: Request to Cancel the Kickstarter Synthetic Biology ‘Glowing Plants’ project.
Dear Jim Thomas and Eric Hoffman,
Thank you for your interest in our project and taking the time to write to us with your concerns. Please allow me to clarify and expand upon a few key points.
Wall Street Journal : Glow-in-The-Dark Plant Makes Activists See Red
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By Anna Leach
Online at http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2013/05/07/glow-in-the-dark-plant-makes-activists-see-red/
An Israeli startup selling genetically-modified glow-in-the-dark plants over the Web has drawn the ire of environmentalists who are demanding it be withdrawn.
Kickstopper letter to 'Glowing Plants' project
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ETC Group and Friends of The Earth request a halt to Synthetic Biology project.
2 May 2013 Dear Antony Evans,
Request to Cancel the Kickstarter Synthetic Biology ʻGlowing Plantsʼ project.
We are writing to express our concern, in the strongest possible terms, about the project you have listed on Kickstarter, which, as currently advertised, will likely result in widespread, random and uncontrolled release of bioengineered seeds and plants produced with synthetic biology techniques. We respectfully request that this project, which poses real world risks to the environment, be abandoned as currently described.
Kickstopper Letter to USDA APHIS
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Letter sent by ETC Group and Friends of the Earth to USDA APHIS
April 30, 2013
USDA/APHIS/LPA
1400 Independence Avenue,
SW Room 1147
South Building
Washington DC 20250
Ms. Bethany Jones:
Kickstopper Letter to Kickstarter
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ETC and Friends of the Earth request Kickstarter Inc to Cancel the 'Glowing Plants' Project
Kickstarter Inc
155 Rivington St.
Second Floor
New York, NY 10002
United States
30th April 2013
Dear Perry Chen, Charles Adler and Yancey Strickler:
Request for Kickstarter to cancel the Synthetic Biology ‘Glowing Plant: Natural Lighting with No Electricity’ project
Maíz transgénico de Sudáfrica: imposición en México y Zimbawe
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BOLETÍN DE PRENSA
Grupo ETC, Centro Africano para la Bioseguridad,
FoodMattersZimbabwe y CTDT
Johannesburgo, Harare y Ciudad de México 15 de abril de 2013
Nuevas importaciones de maíz transgénico de Sudáfrica a México
Cargamentos no autorizados hacia Zimbawe
En peligro el centro de origen y las formas de vida campesinas del maíz en Mesoamérica y en África
South Africa exports ‘unapproved’ GM maize to Zimbabwe, continues to export to Mexico, contaminating both the region and centre of origin
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African Centre for Biosafety, ETC Group, FoodMattersZimbabwe and CTDT
Johannesburg, Harare, Mexico City 15 April 2013
Tunis 2013: If we rely on corporate seed, we lose food sovereignty
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World Social Forum Event organized by La Via Campesina, GRAIN and ETC Group
GROWING POWER IN PEASANT SEEDS SYSTEMS: Farmers seeds and struggle against GMOs, AGRA- 2nd Green Revolution. Tunis, March 29.
It has become crucial to defend seeds. In the past 20 or 30 years, what was once seen as normal – peasant farmers growing, selecting, saving and exchanging seeds – has come under attack from corporations seeking to control and commodify the very basis of agriculture.
Documento de antecedentes sobre el vertimiento de hierro en Haida Gwaii ocurrido en 2012
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Hace 6 años (2007) el Grupo ETC alertó sobre una empresa comercial de geoingeniería llamada Planktos, Inc., la cual comenzó con la navegación en el río Potomac de un navío de investigación con vistas a verter 100 toneladas de nanopartículas de hierro en las aguas de las islas Galápagos. Planktos esperaba generar una elevación en el volumen de plancton por medio de la “fertilización oceánica”, una técnica de geoingeniería dirigida a la captura de carbono en aguas marinas profundas. La “gran idea” consistía en vender bonos de carbono mediante un esquema que Russ George, director ejecutivo de Planktos denominó “más un experimento de negocios que científico”.