U.S. tax dollars promote Monsanto's GMO crops overseas: report
Source: Reuters
Lyon :: France | updated 2013-05-14 06:32:22 -0700 | green-news
News Analysis & Opinion Related Topics French beekeepers demonstrate to protest the use of genetically-modified organisms in front of French Monsanto headquarters in Bron, near Lyon, January 20, 2012...U.S. taxpayers are footing the bill for overseas lobbying that promotes controversial...
BART system starts issuing bans against passengers
Source: Big News Network
Bart :: France | updated 2013-05-06 15:13:19 -0700 | green-news
California have to officially be on their best behavior beginning this Monday: a new law that lets transit police ban unruly passengers, troublemakers and even protestors starts this week. San Francisco/Oakland area as part of one of the largest mass-transit...
Flooding plagues eastern France
Source: United Press International
Dijon :: France | updated 2013-05-04 11:38:27 -0700 | green-news
Officials in eastern France ordered evacuations Saturday after torrential rains hit the Burgundy region. Some residents of Dijon were ordered out of their homes to escape the rising waters of the Ouche river, which overflowed its banks, after a month's...
Chinese River's Fate May Reshape a Region
Source: International Herald Tribune
Neuilly :: France | updated 2013-05-04 11:24:47 -0700 | green-news
The Chinese government stunned environmentalists this year by reviving plans to build a series of hydropower dams on the upper reaches of the Nu, one of the Asia's wildest rivers.
OM Group inks deal to sell its Ultra Pure Chemicals units in three countries
Source: Crain's Cleveland Business
Paris :: France | updated 2013-04-29 14:56:08 -0700 | green-news
The producer of specialty chemicals said the sale is expected to close before the end of June,.
Energy efficiency expert: A sole CO2 target for 2030 would be dangerous (Interview)
Source: Euractiv
Paris :: France | updated 2013-04-24 23:35:59 -0700 | green-news
Bernard Laponche is an engineer who helped to develop the first French nuclear plants before becoming alarmed by the potential risks of the technology. He has since worked as an energy efficiency consultant for several countries including Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria,...
Cannes: LevelK Takes Finnish Doc Hit 'Tale of a Forest'
Source: Hollywood Reporter Film
Cannes :: France | updated 2013-04-24 08:15:41 -0700 | green-news
The lush look at the woodlands of Northern Finland has become the country's best-selling documentary...LevelK will introduce the film to international buyers at the Cannes film market next month.
Monsanto vs. Mother Earth: Join the millions who have already signed the petition to take back ...
Source: Natural News
Paris :: France | updated 2013-04-24 02:28:24 -0700 | green-news
The world's most evil corporation, Monsanto, has taken a new interest in conventional food crops, which the company is currently trying to seize ownership of in Europe by exploiting a little-known loophole in European patent law. And a petition created...
Africa: Sustainable Intensification 'Can Work for African Farmers'
Source: Africa Headlines
Montpellier :: France | updated 2013-04-18 22:22:36 -0700 | green-news
London Smallholder farmers in Africa must participate in research to ensure higher crop yields and to fend off hunger as the continent's population grows, according to a report published today (18 April)...The group first met in Montpellier, France, in March...
Gallegos Winery and the Hayward Fault
Source: KQED
Bart :: France | updated 2013-04-18 12:59:23 -0700 | green-news
Two new stations are in the plans, the first one being the "optional" Irvington Station at the intersection of Washington Boulevard and Osgood Road. It will be right next to the century-old ruins of the Gallegos Winery, where cultural history...
EU Signals Shift In Europe's Energy Strategy
Source: Canadian Free Press
Strasbourg :: France | updated 2013-04-12 08:16:11 -0700 | green-news
Mr. Oettinger's comments signal a shift in the EU's clean-energy strategy, with a bigger focus on keeping down costs to preserve the competitiveness of the bloc's economy. In 2007, when the EU set its last binding targets for 2020 for...
Ban calls for action to save ocean pollution, acidification
Source: NewKerala
Paris :: France | updated 2013-04-11 23:15:17 -0700 | green-news
Director-General Irina Bokova. "It is time to take stronger, more pragmatic and more concerted effort to protect our oceans," he said, stressing that oceans are heating up and their acidification is adversely affecting on marine life, while rising sea levels...
Africa: Three Ways to Unlock Climate Finance
Source: All Africa
Paris :: France | updated 2013-04-11 06:04:50 -0700 | green-news
Ministers and senior officials from developed countries will gather this Thursday in Washington, D.C. to tackle one of the world's foremost challenges: how to mobilise private sector capital to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in developing countries and help them...
Bihar set to use nuclear energy in agriculture
Source: NewKerala
Barc :: France | updated 2013-04-10 09:05:50 -0700 | green-news
Patel, chairman of the horticulture department of Bihar Agricultural University (BAU) at Sabour in Bhagalpur district, said that nuclear energy could be used in plant breeding and for developing new varieties. Radiation could be used for mutation, he said, and...
All downhill as Alps face a warmer world and huge change
Source: The New Zealand Herald
Annecy :: France | updated 2013-04-05 10:35:35 -0700 | green-news
From his office in the alpine ski resort of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, meteorologist Gilles Brunot is looking out at snow-capped peaks washed with spring sunshine, resplendent under a pale blue sky. Much of northern Europe is pining for spring, but nobody here...
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