Tag: DuPont

  • Agroecology Best Way to Fundamentally Transform Agriculture

    Doug Gurian-Sherman posts an excellent article on his blog The Equation about the promise agroecology holds to fundamentally transform agriculture to make it more resilient to climate change, respond to new pests, conserve scarce resources like water and phosphorus, reduce environmental impacts, and establish food sovereignty. …we must make a serious effort to develop ecologically-sound agriculture systems that address…

  • New App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers, Monsanto And More By Scanning Your Shopping Cart

    By: Clare O’Connor, Forbes Staff Buycott shows you a product’s corporate family tree while you shop. In her keynote speech at last year’s annual Netroots Nation gathering, Darcy Burnerpitched a seemingly simple idea to the thousands of bloggers and web developers in the audience. The former Microsoft MSFT +1.51%programmer and congressional candidate proposed a smartphone app allowing shoppers to swipe…