by Gil Friend | Nov 12, 2002 | Sustainability
Fish Catch Leveling Off Earth Policy Institute: The world fish catch in 2000, the last year for which global data are available, was reported at 94.8 million tons. After decades of steady growth, the oceanic fish catch has plateaued and since the late 1980s has...
by Gil Friend | Nov 7, 2002 | Sustainability
Ford, Alcan launch closed-loop aluminum-recycling program ENN Wednesday, November 06, 2002, DETROIT, Mich. Ford Motor Company and Alcan Inc. have launched the North American automotive industry’s first “closed-loop” recycling program for aluminum...
by Gil Friend | Oct 27, 2002 | Sustainability
Netfuture turns out to be a great discovery in its own right, a non-profit “dedicated to pursuing a science of nature rather than of mechanisms assumed to lie behind nature. This is a qualitative science, contextual and holistic in spirit, and ethically informed...
by Gil Friend | Oct 22, 2002 | Sustainability
The Science and Politics of Super Rice. Reversing its once-enthusiastic embrace of genetic experiments, China has imposed restrictions on many domestic varieties of genetically modified crops. By Joseph Kahn. [New York Times: Science]
by Gil Friend | Oct 18, 2002 | Sustainability
allafrica.com: What the world agreed on at the Johannesburg summit.
by Gil Friend | Oct 14, 2002 | Sustainability
Why are these organic farmers opting out? More on organic farming trends: Small Organic Farmers Pull Up Stakes. A curious thing happened on the way to a national organic standard: the small farmer, once at the heart of the organic movement, got left behind. By Samuel...
