Submitted by Anonymous on
From: Antony Evans
Date: May 7, 2013 1:34:33 PM EDT
Subject: Re: Request to Cancel the Kickstarter Synthetic Biology ‘Glowing Plants’ project.
Dear Jim Thomas and Eric Hoffman,
Thank you for your interest in our project and taking the time to write to us with your concerns. Please allow me to clarify and expand upon a few key points.
Submitted by Anonymous on
Online at http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2013/05/07/glow-in-the-dark-plant-makes-activists-see-red/
An Israeli startup selling genetically-modified glow-in-the-dark plants over the Web has drawn the ire of environmentalists who are demanding it be withdrawn.
Submitted by Jim Thomas on
2 May 2013 Dear Antony Evans,
Request to Cancel the Kickstarter Synthetic Biology ʻGlowing Plantsʼ project.
We are writing to express our concern, in the strongest possible terms, about the project you have listed on Kickstarter, which, as currently advertised, will likely result in widespread, random and uncontrolled release of bioengineered seeds and plants produced with synthetic biology techniques. We respectfully request that this project, which poses real world risks to the environment, be abandoned as currently described.
Submitted by Jim Thomas on
April 30, 2013
USDA/APHIS/LPA
1400 Independence Avenue,
SW Room 1147
South Building
Washington DC 20250
Ms. Bethany Jones:
Submitted by Jim Thomas on
Kickstarter Inc
155 Rivington St.
Second Floor
New York, NY 10002
United States
30th April 2013
Dear Perry Chen, Charles Adler and Yancey Strickler:
Request for Kickstarter to cancel the Synthetic Biology ‘Glowing Plant: Natural Lighting with No Electricity’ project
Submitted by ETC Staff on
BOLETÍN DE PRENSA
Grupo ETC, Centro Africano para la Bioseguridad,
FoodMattersZimbabwe y CTDT
Johannesburgo, Harare y Ciudad de México 15 de abril de 2013
Nuevas importaciones de maíz transgénico de Sudáfrica a México
Cargamentos no autorizados hacia Zimbawe
En peligro el centro de origen y las formas de vida campesinas del maíz en Mesoamérica y en África
Submitted by ETC Staff on
African Centre for Biosafety, ETC Group, FoodMattersZimbabwe and CTDT
Johannesburg, Harare, Mexico City 15 April 2013
Submitted by Joëlle Deschambault on
GROWING POWER IN PEASANT SEEDS SYSTEMS: Farmers seeds and struggle against GMOs, AGRA- 2nd Green Revolution. Tunis, March 29.
It has become crucial to defend seeds. In the past 20 or 30 years, what was once seen as normal – peasant farmers growing, selecting, saving and exchanging seeds – has come under attack from corporations seeking to control and commodify the very basis of agriculture.
Submitted by Anja Chalmin on
Hace 6 años (2007) el Grupo ETC alertó sobre una empresa comercial de geoingeniería llamada Planktos, Inc., la cual comenzó con la navegación en el río Potomac de un navío de investigación con vistas a verter 100 toneladas de nanopartículas de hierro en las aguas de las islas Galápagos. Planktos esperaba generar una elevación en el volumen de plancton por medio de la “fertilización oceánica”, una técnica de geoingeniería dirigida a la captura de carbono en aguas marinas profundas. La “gran idea” consistía en vender bonos de carbono mediante un esquema que Russ George, director ejecutivo de Planktos denominó “más un experimento de negocios que científico”.
Submitted by ETC Group on
Almost six years ago ETC Group blew the whistle on a commercial geoengineering outfit called Planktos, Inc., which was making its way to dump 100 tons of iron nanoparticles into the waters of the Galapagos Islands . Working with allies ETC Group was able to prevent that ocean fertilisation dump. In 2012 however we were less lucky. The same geoengineering entrepeuner, Russ George, suceeded in dumping over 100 tonnes of iron into the Pacific ocean west of Haida Gwaii in Canada, claiming that his actions had prompted a 10,000 square km plankton bloom. This time his new company, The Haida Salmon Restoration Corporation (HSRC), was using millions of dollars in funds from a small indigenous community. Read here the full story of how ETC Group uncovered HSRC's rogue geoengineering scheme and the storm of international concern that ensued.
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