Updated: 9/11/06; 6:51:07 AM.
Gil Friend
Strategic Sustainability, and other worthy themes of our time
        

Sunday, January 11, 2004

Environmentalists promote fears of a nanotech "green" goo (PDF report) disaster. [John Robb's Weblog]

Or you can browse around at the site of the e t c group -- the Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration (formerly the Rural Advancement Foundation International -- and find this and other downloads here.
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Move to Ban Altered Crops Is Focused on California. The center of the nation's anti-biotechnology movement can be found these days in Mendocino County, a quirky region with a strong streak of independence. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Science]

'I believe that genetic engineering at this stage is the biggest uncontrolled biological experiment going on in the world today,' said Els Cooperrider, an owner of the Ukiah Brewing Company.
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Herbal medicine boom threatens plants [New Scientist]

The multimillion-pound boom in herbal medicine is threatening to wipe out up to a fifth of the plant species on which it depends, wrecking their natural habitats and jeopardising the health of millions of people in developing countries.

Sorry folks, 'natural' just ain't enough. The viability of natural depends on rates of flow.

And as Amory Lovins is fond of reminding us, the cause of most problems is solutions.
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