biotechnology

Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Bart Elmore.

In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Evan Friss is interviewed on his book, The Cycling City: Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s.

Erika Amethyst Szymanski investigates the impact of synthetic yeast, which is gaining ground in a variety of foodscapes, and reflects upon the meaning of Terroir that synthetic yeast brings about.

This issue of Mendocino Environmental Center Newsletter features stories on Y2K (the turn of the millenium), genetic engineering, and local currency and produce.

Laura Westra discusses biotechnology and transgenics in agriculture and aquaculture from a perspective of ecosystem integrity.

The ALARM no. 5 reports on regional Earth First! direct actions; Mike Z. gives an update on Dartmouth students’ and locals’ protest in favor of divestment from Hydro-Quebec. Orin Langelle reports on the First International Temperate Forest Conference (FITFC) in Tasmania; and the editors reprint a biotechnology-critical statement from the left-radical Dutch paper Konfrontatie.

With issue 7, the ALARM changes its subtitle from “a voice of northeast Earth First!” to “a voice of revolutionary ecology” to reflect the feeling of the group Biodiversity Liberation Front EF! that it was too great a responsibility for one group to represent the entire region. While they will continue to report about EF! actions, they wish to draw on a revolutionary ecology perspective to form a more broadly based movement.

Earth First! 27, no. 1 reports on topics such as coal mining in Bangladesh, uprising against the fossil-fuel industry in the UK, the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, and genetically modified organisms escaping their test sites and getting into the food supply.

Earth First! 25, no. 2 features articles on anti-nuclear activists on both sides of the Atlantic and the liberation of over 400 animals in Iowa, and features a special Earth First! primer in English and Spanish.

Earth First! 25, no. 1 features articles on dam fights in California, southern Mexico, and Paraguay, presents an interview with activist Allison Lance Watson, and targets nanotech.