Publication archives

Jun 13, 2000

Will It Help Farmers: The Upper Mississippi River Navigation Project

This paper is one in a series on the impact of expanding the navigational infrastructure on the Upper Mississippi River.
Jun 12, 2000

ForestWorld.com: The internet marketplace for certified forest products

ForestWorld is becoming the Internet's most dynamic certified forest products marketplace, featuring the ForestWorld Exchange, searchable databases, daily news, and other services designed to build an online community in the certified forest products industry. Check it out!
Jun 5, 2000

EPA Drops the Ball on Dioxin

When the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its long-awaited assessment of dioxin this week, its conclusions corroborated what many scientists (and communities like Love Canal and Times Beech) have said for some time: that dioxin can cause cancer, a host of other effects, and that parts of the US population have dangerously high exposure levels.
Jun 2, 2000

Carol Tucker Foreman to the Rescue of Biotech Foods

By John Stauber, Managing Editor, PR Watch Its no surprise to me that the Clinton/Gore Whitehouse has appointed recent and long-time Monsanto biotech lobbyist Carol Tucker Foreman as the "consumer advocate" to the global Biotech Consultative Forum.
Jun 2, 2000

Your Highness, Science Is Not Perfect, But Nor Is Nature: In an Open Letter to Prince Charles, Richard Dawkins Calls for Reason

June 1, 2000 / The Ottawa Citizen / New Homes / A19 / Opinion
Jun 2, 2000

Biotech Branches Out; Genetic Modifications Have the Potential to Change Our Landscapes -- and to Transform Forestry

May 30, 2000 / San Jose Mercury News / Lisa M. Krieger "No tree lover will ever forget his first meeting with the sugar pine ... sun tree of the Sierra. This is the noblest of pines yet discovered, surpassing all others not merely in size but in kingly beauty and majesty ... they are the priests of pines and seem ever to be addressing the surrounding forest." -- John Muir
Jun 2, 2000

Europe, U.S. Aim to Resolve Differences on Genetically Engineered FoodS

June 1, 2000 / Environment News Service LISBON, Portugal, May 31, 2000 (ENS) - The risks and benefits of genetically engineered crops and foods will be the subject of a new trans-Atlantic high level discussion group, the European Union and the United States agreed today.
Jun 2, 2000

GM-Free Britain Will Boost Morale Farmer's Wife Tells

June 1, 2000 / PA News / Nick Allen A young farmer's wife has, according to this story, written an impassioned plea to Tony Blair asking him to make Britain a GM-free country and "give rural citizens back their morale".