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Agriscience Bus" Takes Teachers For A Ride (Conscious Choice) -  Big business interests are pushed in a program to teach educators about "agriculture"...their agriculture.

The Perils of Plastic (ENN)  -  Your cling wrap could be leaching chemicals.

Bright Spots In Solar's Future? (CSM)  -  Solar energy got lots of attention in the 1970s. But there were plenty of problems to overcome. Now homeowners are again looking at solar to see what has changed.

The Allergy Epidemic  (MSNBC) -  We’ve conquered most childhood infections, but extremereactions to everyday substances pose a new threat.

Down On The Pharm  (Salon) -  Genetically modified crops that produce drugs are the latest rage. But American farmers are lighting a prairie fire of revolt. 

Where Is Thy Sting?  (NY Times) -  Genetic medicine is making enormous strides, and it may hold the promise — or maybe it's the peril — of eventually making us something closer to immortal.

Meanwhile, Back at Monsanto's Ranch (AlterNet) - We need to stand up for producer and consumer rights and insist that genetically-modified food products be honestly labeled.

Dead on Arrival: The Fate of Nature in the Scientific Revolution  (Culture Change) - How Western science served to sanction an altogether new, predatory approach to the natural world in early modern times.

Tinkering With The Clouds (CSM) - Researchers say evolving technologies could allow manipulation of major weather patterns. But should humans tamper?

Biotech's Three Mile Island (AlterNet) - The pharmaceutical contamination of 250,000 bushels of soybeans by ProdiGene is the public's big chance to push for regulation of this dangerously laissez-faire industry.

Vaccines Need a Closer Look (AlterNet) - President Bush is urging smallpox vaccines for half a million people, even as some critics are blaming vaccines for an astronomical rise in autism.

Agribusiness, Bio-technology and War (Organic Consumer) -  Today it is clear that opposing genetic engineering is also a key to countering the capitalist war against nature.

Dow Chemical's Biotech Greenwash (AlterNet) - Despite mounting global opposition to genetically modified products, one company is sneaking them onto shelves nationwide, hidden behind eco-friendly press.

Lighting The Way To Solar Power (AlterNet) - While the Bush Administration continues to push dangerous, toxic and unsustainable energy on the nation, some groups around the country are working to make the most of the sun's power.

Intellectual Property (ENN) - Enhancing corporate monopoly and bioserfdom.

Biopharm Roulette (AlterNet) - Now the pressure must be put on the USDA to remove the veil forever.

How Mushrooms Will Save The World (Salon) - Cleaning up toxic spills, stopping poison-gas attacks, and curing deadly diseases.

The Covert Biotech War (Monbiot) - The battle to put a corporate GM padlock on our foodchain is being fought on the net.

Spy Technology Meets Agribusiness (CorpWatch) - Precision farming: high tech corporate responsibility or agribusiness expansion?

Thirteen Months of Biotech Lies (AlterNet) - The biotech/agribusiness industry has spent the last year denying, lying, spinning and covering up the fact that they have no control over their product.

Industry Fights Progress -- Again (ENN)  - Maximizing profits at the expense of human and environmental health is not a god-given right.

Power To The People (Orion Afield) - The technology is here; the options are real. Decentralized power could be right around the corner for communities far and wide.

Agribusiness, Bio-technology and War (Tom Paine)  - Since the earliest origins of modern industrial agriculture, agribusiness has been at war against all life on earth, including ourselves

Genetic Engineers Know Not What They Do  (Canberra Times) -  Down what path does genetic engineering take us into the future?

Tears of a Clone  (The Age) - we had the first cloned mice. Then the first cloned calves, then the first cloned male calves. It just goes on and on.

Technotopia & the Death of Nature (Earth Island Journal) - Nature and technology are not just evolving: They are competing and combining with one another. Ultimately there could be only one winner.

Implantable Chips Ahoy (News for Change) - 'Mark of the beast' or sign of the times?

The Remastered Race (Wired) - Technology has pushed the eugenic moment to the point of conception.

Taking Over for God on the Seventh Day (Donella Meadows) - Let's invent some new ones that life has never seen before and then invent some DNA to code for them!

Disrupting Life's Messages (AlterNet) - How new research into the effects of chemicals is rewriting the rules of toxicology and necessitating new approaches to regulation.

Well, Hello Mr. Chips (Wired News) - The FDA has ruled that an implantable microchip used for ID purposes is not a regulated device.

Technology Cannot Replace Transcendence (Conscious Choice) - In our time, there's no greater heresy than challenging the modern ideal of always pushing the limits.

The Monsanto Machine (Resurgence) - Is Monsanto sowing the seeds of change or destruction?

Robots Are Us (Alternet) - Three new, very different books all propose the same thing: merging humanity and robotics to transcend our mental and physical limitations -- a dream becoming more real every day.

Mad, Bad and Dangerous (New Statesman) - Whether it's the MMR vaccine or GM foods, people distrust what scientists tell them. And they are perfectly right to do so.

Unlikely Allies Against Cloning (Common Dreams) -  the surge of new technology makes new issues--and new alliances--inescapable.

Flesh Robots and God (Salon)- One of the world's leading roboticists discusses the machines in our future -- their ability to think, feel, reproduce and achieve personhood.

Playing God (Guerrilla News) - Scary new weapons that can change the weather.

Men Redundant? Now we don't need woman either (Guardian) - Scientists have developed an artificial womb that allows embryos to grow outside the body.

Biowarriors (GNS) - Good News: The U.S. Army has a lot of experience with biowarfare. Bad News: The victims were 1000s of innocent Americans.

Anatomy of a 'Gene Spill': Do we really need genetically engineered food? (Food First) - The New York Times pointed out that this incident "shows how difficult it can be to contain genes once they get into the field and how hard it can to keep different varieties of crops from co-mingling."

Think You Own Your Genes? Think Again (GNS) - Decisions on how and where our genetic information will be used rest in the hands of those hoping to profit from a mutation or two.    

Flouride - a kick in the teeth? (Red Pepper) -  "Water fluoridation is the greatest case of scientific fraud of this century, if not of all time." 

The beginning of the end for GE food? (Common Dreams) - As awareness of GE foods reaches levels seen in Europe, the wholesale rejection of what the British have dubbed "Frankenfood" is likely to be duplicated in the US.

It's the end of the world.. again (Sunday Times) - A new generation is getting used to the idea that the planet is not a safe place. It never was...

Free drugs from your faucet (Salon) - How did tiny amounts of nearly every drug under the sun get into our drinking water -- and what are they doing to us?      

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