Category Archives: GE Trees
NEW REPORT REVEALS DRIVERS OF UK BIOMASS EXPANSION AS BRAZILIAN SUZANO PAPEL E CELULOSE GAIN APPROVAL FOR LARGEST GM TREE PLANTATION TRIAL
Cross-Posted from Carbon Trade Watch London/Barcelona 14 May 2012: Earlier this month Brazilian pulp and paper giant Suzano Papel e Celulose gained approval for the world’s most advanced trial of genetically modified (GM) trees to meet the global demands of … Continue reading
Brazil: Eucalyptus developer begins final GE tree field trial
Note: The article below shows the key role that industry hopes GE trees will play in the development of extreme agrofuels (jet fuel, biodiesel, cellulosic ethanol, what have you), by manipulating the trees’ lignin and cellulose content. They are trying … Continue reading
New Zealand: GE-Weeds Costing Farmers Dearly; Scion Wants to Replant Destroyed GE trees
Wednesday, 2 May 2012, 6:51 pm From GE Free NZ The emergence of herbicide-resistant weeds as a result of planting genetically engineered crops is costing farmers dearly and shows the benefits of New Zealand’s GE-free status. A survey of farmers … Continue reading
Filed under Biodiversity, Climate Change, Food Sovereignty, GE Trees, Genetic Engineering
The Bioeconomy is Bad for Biodiversity, Global Forest Coalition Warns
NOTE: This morning, the White House released its National Bioeconomy Blueprint.The press release from the White House announced the Obama Administration’s “commitment to strengthening bioscience research as a major driver of American innovation and economic growth.” The National Bioeconomy Blueprint outlines steps that agencies … Continue reading
Monitoring of GE: a reason for mistrust–More on the GE trees destroyed in NZ
Note: More on the destruction of the GE tree test plots in New Zealand and the potential rationale behind it. This time from a member of New Zealand Parliament… –The GJEP Team by Steffan Browning, April 17, 2012 Published in Environment & … Continue reading
Filed under Actions, Forests and Climate Change, GE Trees, Genetic Engineering
American Chestnut Returns to New York City (in a GE version)
This report, cross-posted from Science Daily, celebrates the “return” of the American Chestnut to New York City, 100 years after the Chestnut was wiped out by a pathogenic fungus. But let’s not mistake this event for anything resembling ecological restoration. … Continue reading
Filed under GE Trees, Genetic Engineering
This Week’s Earth Minute: GE Tree Field-trials Destroyed by Protesters in New Zealand
Global Justice Ecology Project partners with Margaret Prescod’s Sojourner Truth show on KPFK–Pacifica Los Angeles radio show for a weekly Earth Minute on Tuesdays and a weekly 12 minute Environment Segment every Thursday. In this week’s Earth minute, Anne Petermann makes clear … Continue reading
Filed under GE Trees, KPFK, Media, Posts from Anne Petermann
Debate on the release of Genetically Engineered Chestnut Trees
Note: From the second of the two articles below, “This month, researchers from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, N.Y., are planning to plant 10 chestnut trees with a tweaked gene that they believe will help … Continue reading
Breaking News: GMO Tree Field Trial Destroyed in New Zealand
Note: This breaking news from Aotearoa (New Zealand) was received by GJEP from sources around the world. A colleague from Aotearoa writes, “…a bulletin on a break-in at the Scion site where people cut through the outer perimeter fence and dug … Continue reading
Victory! Richmond, BC (Canada) poised to take stand on genetically modified crops & trees
BY RANDY SHORE, APRIL 10, 2012 Cross-Posted from the Vancouver Sun This file photo from 2006 shows the Steves Farm, the last farm in the residential area of Richmond is still home to Harold and Kathy Steves. Every morning … Continue reading
