ETC Group publishes a world map of geoengineering -- the large-scale manipulation of earth or climate systems.
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...in collaboration with the Heinrich Böll Foundation
The notion of a "great green technological transformation" enabling a "green economy" is now being widely promoted as the key to our planet's survival. The ultimate goal is to substitute the extravtion and refining of petroleum with the transformation of biomass.
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The seal of the DoA proclaims that "Agriculture is the foundation of manufacture and commerce"
Even as new industrial platforms involving petrochemicals and electricity were gaining ground in the late nineteenth century, the newly formed United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) unveiled its official seal showing a plow with sheaves of maize depicted on the surface of a shield.
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Control of Surf & Turf
Demand for food, feed and other forms of plant-derived biomass – as well as for strategic resources such as minerals and timber – is driving the international land grab. Control of water resources is another major driver.
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Mega Foundations, Agribusiness Muscle In On Public Goods
Issue: Three recent incidents show that the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) seem to be redacting their reports, or opening their gene banks and looking the other way as the private sector overr
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Corporate Concentration in the Life Industries
Who Will Control the Green Economy?
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New Book from ETC Group in collaboration with Pambazuka News
'Earth Grab - Geopiracy, the New Biomassters and Capturing Climate Genes' - essential, cutting-edge climate science in everyday language - published this week (27 October 2011).
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Kink in UK’s ‘Trojan Hose’ geoengineering experiment
Opponents of proposals to “geoengineer” the planet have two reasons to celebrate this week.
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Hose down!
In response to reports that British scientists are about to test the hardware needed to put sulphur particles in the stratosphere as a climate technofix, international technology watch
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