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 Stories About: food and agriculture AND toxics
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I Wanna Be Like Myco
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26 Nov 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| I Wanna Be Like Myco They're good in salads, lovely with pasta ... and great for the earth? The humble mushroom could help clean up everything from oil spills to pesticides, thanks to a new technology called mycoremediation. Mushroom expert Paul Stamets pioneered the technology against the bacteria E. coli and then partnered with scientists at the Pacific Northwest Na ... |
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| Topics: environmental restoration, food and agriculture, pollution and waste, toxics, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Talkin' 'Bout An Evolution
The U.S. should take a cue from nature in its fight against terrorism |
Seth Zuckerman |
11 Oct 2001 |
Soapbox |
| Talk about unimaginative. After the radically unconventional attacks on Sept. 11, the United States government strikes back in the most predictable way possible, by bombing Afghanistan from the air. Instead of studying an obsolete military playbook to plan the U.S. response, we might turn to the steady principles of ecology: After all, organisms have been living with eac ... |
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| Topics: Afghanistan, energy, food and agriculture, toxics, United States, US Military, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Residon'ts
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16 Aug 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Residon'ts Nearly half the fruit and vegetables sold in U.K. supermarkets since 1998 contained pesticide residues, according to an analysis of government pesticide data by Friends of the Earth. The group said most of the residues were within legal limits, but it raised concerns that the individual chemicals could be dangerous in combination, especially for u ... |
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| Topics: environmental non-government organizations, food and agriculture, health, toxics, United Kingdom (all these topics) |
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An Offer You Can't Refuse
Lisa Hymas reviews God's Last Offer by Ed Ayres |
Lisa Hymas |
05 Oct 1999 |
Arts and Minds |
| God's Last Offer: Negotiating for a Sustainable Future by Ed Ayres Four Walls Eight Windows, 1999, 357 pages In 1998, S. Sailam, a farmer living with his pregnant wife and two children in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, found that the pesticide he was spraying on his cotton crop had ceased to do its job. In desperation, he killed himself by squirting the pesticide down his throat. M ... |
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| Topics: food and agriculture, toxics (all these topics) |
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