Author: Daniela

  • GMO and Monsanto Roundup: Glyphosate Weedkiller in our Food and Water?

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    This article by Colin Todhunter, in Global Research, is so alarming, I’m posting it in its entirety.  It encapsulates everything that is wrong with GM crops – from their impact on the environment to the lack of independent research to the pressure this industry exerts on governments and the scientific community. “Historians may look back…

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  • The Poetry Quilt

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    Meyrem Hussain brings us a poignant article about  “hundreds of scraps of materials and thousands of painstaking stitches… brought together in a six-month labour of love.” Women attending the Stuart Low Trust have just completed their ‘poetry quilt’ – a riot of colour with the compositions of 15 budding poets. The poems include a tale of…

  • Future Earth established to discover why the global environment is changing

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    Global sustainability research programme Future Earth has announced its inaugural science committee, with Institute of Development Studies Professorial Fellow Melissa Leach serving as vice chair.   Future Earth was launched in June 2012, at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). The 18-member science committee – the first Future Earth governance body to be appointed – will…

  • Bloomberg still trying to create the nanny state – in a good way.

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    If the endeavor gets off the ground, all 8 million residents of the most populated city in the United States will have to start putting aside food waste and other organic materials, such as houseplants and eggshells, then package them separately to be picked up by specialized trash collectors. Compostable waste will have to be…

  • Can Eating Organic Boost Fertility in Women?

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    Yourwellness Magazine reported on a recent study, published in the journal PLOS One, which found that organic food boosts fertility. According to Yourwellness Magazine, “Researchers at Southern Methodist University, in Dallas, carried out a study on fruit flies that revealed the insects fed an organic diet had better general health. Why the flies eating organic…

  • Samsung Galaxy S4 Receives First Sustainability Award For A Smartphone

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    Korea is known to be one of the countries leading the way in developing a more environmentally responsible economy. So it is no surprise that their Samsung smartphone manufacturing arm recently pulled down an award for the first time ever for a mobile handset. TCO Development is a firm which grades all kinds of companies…

  • Send Your Message into Deep Space

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    By Miriam Kramer, SPACE.com A group of scientists, businessmen and entrepreneurs are tired of waiting around for E.T. to get in touch. Instead of passively listening for signs of intelligent life in the universe, the Lone Signal project is asking everyone with an Internet connection to help beam messages into outer space in an attempt to make our presence…

  • Antarctica’s Future

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    Originally posted on The Dish: Joe Hanson explains the above image: A new topographical reconstruction of the land mass beneath Antarctica may, for the first time, let [geologists] glimpse into our possible future. A warm, frightening future. The British Antarctic Survey created Bedmap2, a detailed map of the terrain beneath the icy sheets of the…

  • Does Monotheism Kill Spirituality?

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    By Ajay Nemade Monotheist says, “God is one, my God is true and your God is false”. This kills spirituality. In spirituality there is no my God or your God. God is the same for all humanity, whether they believe him in any form. Monotheist insists on their own God which is actually their imagination on…