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Synthetic Biology
Jim Thomas' presentation at the Rathenau Institute, Netherlands(second video on page - about 20 mins)
Interview with Jim Thomas and other experts on social concerns about synthetic Biology by the EU's Synbiosafe project (click on different 'experts' on the right hand side)
Audio
Biotechnology
From the radio program LIVING ON EARTH; Genes For Sale / Bob CartyAir Date: April 27, 2007 (transcript available here)
Rapid advances in biotechnology raise concerns about the ownership of genetic material. Living on Earth re-airs our 1995 award-winning piece "Who Owns Life? Patenting Human Genes" by reporter Bob Carty. Host Jeff Young then follows up with Pat Mooney, a source in the piece. (17:30)
What Next?
(A-day-in-the-life of a World Social Forum : Nairobi, Kenya)
Pat Mooney from the What Next? Project as he looks through new technologies to find out what the world will look like in thirty years time
From: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:40:06 -0500
Nanotechnology
Pat Mooney speaks with Earthbeat Radio (September 26, 2006) Multiple audio files to listen to at the Earthbeat site.
Pat Mooney talks about ‘Technologies Converging at the Nano-Scale: Implications for biodiversity, poverty eradication and the economies of the Global South’, at a seminar hosted by the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation on May 29 & 30, 2006, in Sweden.
29 May, 19-20.30, Uppsala (28 MB)
30 May, 9.30 – 11.45, Stockholm (35 MB)
Synthetic Biology
Jim Thomas speaks with Earthbeat Radio (September 26, 2006). Multiple audio files to listen to at the Earthbeat site.
Video
The Fight to BAN Terminator
Pat Mooney on Canada's Position on 'Case by Case' Risk Assessment of Terminator Technology. (recorded March 2006)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqF_2oNLN7g
Terminator Technology Suicide Seed Technology:
These are some video clips from the ‘Terminator on Trial’ event in Ottawa, 20th March 2005. They were filmed by ETC staff, who were also involved in the coordination of the event. The event was hosted by Bob Carty of CBC Radio, with speakers including Gerry Barr of the Canadian Council for International Cooperation; Vandana Shiva, a physicist, environmental activist and author; Percy Schmeiser, Saskatchewan Farmer who became an international symbol and spokesperson for independent farmers' rights and the regulation of transgenic crops during his legal battle with agrichemical giant Monsanto; Colleen Ross, Women’s President of Canada’s National Farmers Union; and various guests (including Pat Mooney of ETC Group) by live telephone link to Curitiba.Dr Vandana Shiva discusses the health impacts of eating "dead food." (765 KB)
Dr Vandana Shiva contrasts the prayer of farmers to the prayer of the corporations pushing Terminator Technology. (557 KB)
Dr Vandana Shiva talks about the impacts of releasing terminator into ecosystems. (802 KB)
Dr Vandana Shiva at Terminator on Trial describes terminator as a "crime against nature." (481 KB)
Percy Schmeiser asks what kind of a legacy we want to leave for future generations. (270 KB)
Percy Schmeiser discusses the potential effect of Terminator on removing farmers' rights. (1,009 KB)
Colleen Ross addresses the cooption of publicly funded plant varieties by multinational seed companies. (604 KB)
Jim’s Thomas’s Video Diary of COP8 in Curitiba, Brazil in March of 2006. This is at the height of the Terminator Debate in 2006. (27 MB) (This video was shown at the March 20th Event in Ottawa.)
For further information on this issue and more photos from the worldwide movement to Ban Terminator, please go to www.banterminator.org.