While local circuits of bio-fuel can surely provide a temporary alternative to petrol use, it makes absolutely no sense long-term nor on a wide scale. The oil industry and modern large-scale agriculture are practically synonymous. The fuel used to sustain the crops needed for bio-fuel far exceeds fuel not spent in tanks – not to mention oil required for transport and other associated operational expenditures. A band-aid solution such as this that prolongs avoidance of the larger systemic an... read more

One in Three Native Women Suffer Sexual Assault
Jim Lobe

WASHINGTON, Apr 25 (IPS) - Native American women are at least 2.5 times as likely to be sexually assaulted in their lifetime as other women in the United States, according to a major new report by Amnesty International (AI) released here Wednesday.

At least one in three indigenous women will be raped or otherwise subject to sexual violence in their lifetime, according to the 113-page report, the latest in a series produced by th... read more

Today is world water day, another internationally recognized day gone unrecognized in the US for the most part. We turn on faucets and the water comes out at a relatively inexpensive rate, or even better we purchase water - maybe it is even delivered to our doorsteps.

There have been two distinct times in my life when water positioned itself at the forefront of my consiousness, waking me up with the realization that it is undoubtedly the most powerful force on the planet and most vital r... read more

From: Sukjong Hong

The 7th round of negotiations on a Korea-US Free Trade Agreement taking
place this Feb. 11-14th will conclude the largest trade agreement since
NAFTA, as the world's largest and tenth largest economies attempt to
finalize the terms. Many US-based organizations, including the network I
worked with, will be headed to Washington DC to protest the undemocratic
process and terms of the agreement for US and Korean farmers and workers.

I'm posting on this because trade ... read more

The USDA has approved meat and milk from cloned animals. I won't bother posting articles highlighting the disturbances of this decision. Foods from cloned sources will of course not be labeled.



Fighting against biopiracy in the Andean mountains......paticularly interesting to me because I currently attend an institution that has programs to both homogenize the potato in order to make potato growing more "efficient" and thus more profitable/marketable and through a separate department i... read more