Author: Daniela
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Sustainability Drives Innovation
By: Paul Sloane Here are some fine recent examples of product and service innovations that incorporate sustainability. Replenish. Most household cleaners consist of a disposable plastic bottle, a detergent and a lot of water. Shipping a product which is 90% water through retail stores does not make a lot of sense. Replenish is an innovative reusable cleaning…
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One More Reason to Eat Organic: We’re running out of fertilizer
AUTHOR: JULIE M. RODRIGUEZ One of the most frustrating aspects of the organic food “debate” is the fact that the conversation seems to be stuck debating whether organic food is more nutritionally dense than conventionally-grown food. So when studies come out showing that you won’t get more vitamins from eating organic, conventional growers use that to bash organic…
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Say No to GMO
Corporations will always try to cross the line, that is their nature. But government institutions are around to keep them from doing so. At least, that’s the way the system’s supposed to work. You wouldn’t know it from the kinds of stuff that GMO developer Monsanto has pulled off in just the past few months…
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Scientists Discover Bt Toxins Found In Monsanto Crops Damage Red Blood Cells
May 11, 2013 by Arjun Studies are showing that Bt toxins found in Monsanto crops are harmful to mammalian blood by damaging red blood cells and more. RBC’s are responsible for delivering oxygen to the body tissues through blood flow.Bacillus thuringensis (Bt) is a bacterium commonly used as a biological pesticide. It is a microorganism that produces…
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Do Americans Have a Democratic Mission?
Excerpted from “Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century” At one end of the Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C., in the expanse between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, the Bush administration authorized a memorial to World War II. This message, chiseled into a stone tablet, greets the visitor to the World War II…
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Monday Prayer
The Guest is inside you, and also inside me; you know the sprout is hidden inside the seed. We are all struggling; none of us has gone far. Let your arrogance go, and look around inside. The blue sky opens further and further, the daily sense of failure goes away, the damage I have done…
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Up to 2 million in the U.S. and in over 50 countries march against Monsanto
Up to two million people marched in protest against seed giant Monsanto in hundreds of rallies across the U.S. and in more than 50 other countries on Saturday to call attention to the dangers posed by genetically modified food and the food giants that produce it. Founder and organizer Tami Canal said protests were held…
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Skyscrappers
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