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Genetically Modified Organisms and the Environment
Over the 20 years of the commercialization of GMOs, not only have they failed to deliver higher yields as promised, but according to numerous reports, they have also led to serious destruction of the environment through causing increased use of toxic chemicals, and the evolution of “super weeds” and “super bugs”. Bayer, the company currently dominating the seed market for main crops after merging with Monsanto, first introduced “Round-Up Ready” soy for herbicide resistance (via Monsanto). When weeds evolved resistance to the widely applied herbicide and began to overtake crops, the company introduced Round-Up Ready 2, which again began losing ground (literally) to the natural evolution of weeds. In 2010, Monsanto introduced SmartStax with eight new genes added – six for insecticides and two for herbicide resistance. This strategy of throwing more of the same thing at the problem has been a failure, according to weed scientists with the University of Illinois and elsewhere and reports...
Genetically Modified Organisms and the Environment
Over the 20 years of the commercialization of GMOs, not only have they failed to deliver higher yields as promised, but according to numerous reports, they have also led to serious destruction of the environment through causing increased use of toxic chemicals, and...
Remaking the Way We Make Things
An increasing number of engineers, architects, landscapers, chemists and various other professionals from every walk of life are beginning to see real solutions to our most pressing “environmental” problems (or what I like to call “massive life support system that...
8 Tips for Increasing Your Resilience
In my family we call being prepared for inevitable economic and environmental instability “resilience”. We’ve been inspired largely by the concept of Permaculture, which is a design system based on ecological principles for designing resilient, locally based,...
