BioTerra

Etiquetas: Poesia, Teledisco

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Le Monde 18.12.09 | 23h14: Pas d'objectifs de réduction des émissions de CO2

Dans le document politique négocié, les dirigeants prévoient de limiter le réchauffement planétaire à 2 °C d'ici à 2050 par rapport aux niveaux pré-industriels, l'objectif affiché de la conférence sur le climat. Cependant, l'accord ne fixe pas d'objectifs de réduction d'émissions de gaz à effet de serre à l'horizon 2050. C'est l'une des deux déceptions de Nicolas Sarkozy. Pour les pays industrialisés, les objectifs de réduction d'émissions de CO2 ne seront fixés qu'en janvier, après que chacun des pays industrialisés aura donné par écrit ses propres engagements, selon le président français, qui a précisé que l'Union européenne maintiendrait son objectif de réduire ses émissions de 80 % d'ici 2050.

Statement of Erich Pica, president of Friends of the Earth U.S., on tonight's announcement by President Obama: Copenhagen conference ends with sham deal

Climate negotiations in Copenhagen have yielded a sham agreement with no real requirements for any countries. This is not a strong deal or a just one, it isn't even a real one. It's just repackaging old positions and pretending they're new. The actions it suggests for the rich countries that caused the climate crisis are extraordinarily inadequate. This is a disastrous outcome for people around the world who face increasingly dire impacts from a destabilizing climate.

Etiquetas: Aquecimento Global, Copenhaga 2009, Globalização

	Ernst Haeckel: Kunstformen der Natur 1899-1904 HTML-Version herausgegeben von Kurt Stüber, 1999 Vollständige elektronische Faksimile-Ausgabe. Index aller 100 Tafeln Dieses Buch ist ein Teil von Kurt Stübers online-Library.

Etiquetas: Arte, Biologia, Ernst Haeckel, Ilustração Científica

Scott Draves made this these bits are the building blocks I used the make the Kunstformen Dub tracks on the SPOTWORKS DVD. The alpha (transparency) channels in these PNG files are released under the attribution share-alike Creative Commons license. NOTE: only the full-resolution versions you get by clicking zoom have the alpha channel, the screen-resolution versions are jpg files. The original bits are from Ernst Haeckel.

Etiquetas: Arte, Biologia, Ernst Haeckel, Ilustração Científica

Etiquetas: Alterações Climáticas, Copenhaga 2009, Video

Etiquetas: Copenhaga 2009, Fotografia, Movimentos Cívicos, Redes Sociais

Buy Nothing Day film from the Danish Buy Nothing Day campaign: www.bnd.dk Language: English. Produced for Active Consumers by Bolette Frydendahl, Charlotte Brøndum Edmond, Gry Soerensen, Kristian Pinholt and Christian Goldbach

Sítios e páginas internacionais [clica nas bandeiras]

	Buy Nothing Day
	Kauf Nix Tag
	Buy Nothing Day
	Dia Sem Compras
	Koeb intet dag
	Ala osta mitaan -paiva
	Buy Nothing Day India
	La Journée sans Achats
	Giornata del non acquisto
	Kjopefri dag
	Kauf Nix Tag
	Buy Nothing Day
	En Köpfri Dag
	BND for kids

Etiquetas: Consumidor, Consumismo, Eco-Natal, Filosofia

Etiquetas: Copenhaga 2009, Globalização, Lobistas, Monsanto, Premios

We cannot force-feed EU citizens with GM food

Interview with Professor Patrick Wall
Former Chair
European Food Safety Authority

Recorded 2 December 2008
download transcript • press release

Part 1/3: Click here or watch below (8:18):

Questions: What is your view of GM crops? How does EFSA authorize GMOs today? Does the European Commission ever pressure EFSA to adopt a particular conclusion, or fast-track a favourable GM opinion?

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Part 2/3: Click here or watch below (9:58):

Questions: Can current scientific knowledge really predict the long-term impacts of genetic modification on the modified organisms, and on the livestock, wildlife, humans and ecosystems in which they are contained? Do you recommend any improvements in the risk assessment process? Does EFSA carry out risk management as well as risk assessment? How do the GMO approvals processes differ in the USA and Europe? Is the American GMO approvals process trustworthy? What do you think about the biotech companies' practice of not disclosing the raw data from their GM risk assessments? Should this data not be published to enable member states and independent scientists to conduct replicable science?

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Part 3/3: Click here or watch below (8:24):

Questions: What do you think of the demand for mandatory labelling of meat, poultry and dairy produce from livestock fed on GM ingredients, to enable consumer choice and traceability, for postmarket monitoring and long-term epidemiological studies? The biotech companies claim Americans have been eating GM for years without any problem. Isn't this claim ridiculous without the labelling required for traceability? Should EFSA not require the applicant companies to provide the sequence of trans-genes and the whole genome of their GM crops? What is your view of GMO seed patents? What should European member states do if they want to keep GM crops out of their countries, or if they want EFSA to implement transparent and acceptable risk assessments? Should such countries then lobby the Commission instead of EFSA? What is the best GMO strategy for the future of Irish food and farming?

Professor Patrick Wall (MB, BOA, BCh, MVB, MBA, MRCVS) was the Chair of the European Food Safety Authority Management Board from September 2006 - June 2008. EFSA (http://www.efsa.europa.eu/) is the EU Agency mandated by the European Commission to provide its opinion on the safety of conventional and genetically modified animal feed and food for the entire food and feed supply chains, and on issues directly impacting on these such as animal welfare, animal health and plant health.

Prof. Wall is Associate Professor of Public Health in University College Dublin's School of Public Health and Population Sciences (www.ucd.ie/phps) which hosts the National Nutrition Surveillance Centre (http://www.nnsc.ie/). His teaching and research interests include food borne diseases, lifestyle related diseases and health damaging consumer behaviour. He is a co-director of the UCD Centre for Behaviour and Health (http://geary.ucd.ie/behaviour). He was the first Chief Executive of the Irish Food Safety Authority (http://www.fsai.ie/) which is currently run by Dr. John O'Brien, a former Director of the biotech industry lobby group, International Life Sciences Institute! Prof. Wall was one of seven non-Chinese nationals on the committee overseeing food safety arrangements for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He is also the Chairperson of the (Irish) Mental Health Commission's Research Committee, and is a member of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland's Healthy Eating Guidelines steering committee.


Web site: http://www.ucd.ie/foodandhealth/people/academicstaff/profpatrickwall/home/






Retirado do sítio GM-Free Ireland

Etiquetas: Agricultura, Agronegócio, EFSA, FSA, Irelanda, Monsanto, OGM, Patrick Wall, Precaução

Mais Informações sobre Auto-Mat (noutra postagem no Bioterra)e outra ONG organizadora de Massa Crítica do mesmo País, a Cyklojízda

Etiquetas: Agenda 21, Alterações Climáticas, Bicicleta, Cidades Sustentaveis, Eco-Natal, Europa, Mobilidade, Rep. Checa, Saúde Ambiental, Urbanismo

Resumo em Português feito por Margarida Silva



Neste artigo os cientistas Séralini e colegas pegam nos dados em bruto dos estudos da Monsanto feitos aos milhos MON 863, NK 603 e MON 810 (este último cultivado em Portugal; todos eles autorizados para alimentação humana) e obtidos através de acção judicial e fazem pela primeira vez uma avaliação estatística independente da que a Monsanto fez. Os resultados, como seria de esperar, são muito diferentes dos da Monsanto: impactos no fígado e rins (os orgãos de limpeza do aparelho digestivo) e consequências negativas variáveis para o coração, baço, glândulas adrenais e sistema sanguíneo. Mas não fiquem à espera, que o facto de os ratos se darem mal com os transgénicos nunca foi, nem vai ser, razão suficiente para a EFSA, Autoridade Europeia de Segurança Alimentar, decidir que é boa ideia proteger as pessoas e proibir estes transgénicos.

O comunicado de imprensa original segue abaixo:
Three Major GMOs Approved for Food and Feed Found Unsafe
Int J Biol Sci 2009; 5(7), 706-726

Caen, 14 December 2009: In what is being described as the first ever and most comprehensive study of three major GMOs about assessing the effects on mammalian health, researchers from CRIIGEN and Universities of Caen and Rouen have highlighted a number of new sex and often dose dependent side effects linked with their consumption. Their study of the 90-day feeding trials data of insecticide producing Mon 810, Mon 863 and Roundup herbicide absorbing NK 603 varieties of GM maize clearly underlines adverse impacts on kidneys and liver, the dietary detoxifying organs, as well as different levels of damages to heart, adrenal glands, spleen and haematopoietic system. Ironically, the confidential raw data of Monsanto about feeding trials on rats that these researchers have analyzed allowed the international authorization of these three commercialized GMOs in different parts of the world.

Although different level of adverse impact on vital organs were noticed between the three GMO, the research done by J. Spiroux de Vendomois, F. Roullier, D. Cellier and G.E. Seralini and appeared in the International Journal of Biological Sciences shows specific effects associated with consumption of each GMO, differentiated by sex and dose. Their research follows in the wake of European Governments obtaining the raw data related to feeding of rats for 90 days andmaking it publically available for scrutiny and counter-evaluation.

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CRIIGEN denounces in particular the past opinions of EFSA, AFSSA and CGB, committees of European and French Food Safety Authorities, and others who spoke on the lack of risks on the tests which were conducted just for 90 days on rats to assess the safety of these three GM varieties of maize. While criticizing their failure to examine the detailed statistics, CRIIGEN also emphasizes the conflict of interest and incompetence of these committees to counter expertise this publication as they have already voted positively on the same tests ignoring the side effects.

Imagem: La planète transgénique (en 2008)[ler artigo aqui]

Etiquetas: Agronegócio, Ciencia, OGM, Toxicidade

Ainda acredita no Pai Natal e que os Recursos Naturais são infinitos?

Desengane-se!

O Natal é uma época que leva ao consumo excessivo de recursos naturais: nas prendas, nos embrulhos, nos enfeites, nas árvores. E isto sente-se na sua carteira e no ambiente!
Propomos um Natal mais ecológico reutilizando materiais e, com alguma criatividade,concebendo as suas próprias prendas e decorações originais.
Por tudo isto, lançamos o desafio de fazer um Natal mais sustentável, dias 9, 10, 16 e 17 de Dezembro, entre as 18h30 e as 20h00 na sede da Campo Aberto na rua de Sta. Catarina 730, no Porto.

Mais informações aqui

Etiquetas: Cartazes, Eco-Natal, Educação Ambiental, Porto

Etiquetas: Agricultura, Agronegócio, OGM