Hello everyone who cares about our seeds and our freedom to use, exchange and sell them! Take action in the legislative process of EU-Seed regulation! There is urgent action needed to avoid damage by the upcoming new EU regulation of seed marketing. The new regulation will de facto ban old and rare varieties and farmers varieties and ...
http://www.newvisionireland.org/ New Vision Ireland is an independent project by Artist & Researcher, Alberto Hogan. This website aims to grant easy access to essential information for anybody wishing to change their lifestyle to a more sustainable and self-reliant one. The New Vision Ireland project understands that the neccessary change for social & environmental sustainability will not be ...
Shell are planning to start drilling for oil in the frozen north off the coast of Alaska later this month. The Arctic is a vulnerable environment and Shell’s plans put wildlife such as polar bears and walruses at risk…. Greenpeace have come up with a creative way of registering an objection to Shell’s plans ...
Hi all, ironic that John has written this the day before UK agricultural research John Innes Centre announced a big GM project to engineer a pea/cereal cross http://news.jic.ac.uk/2012/07/cereals-self-fertilise/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18845282 so the same international business and research establishment interests that created "Green Revolution" fertilizer dependant cereals will now fix our dependency on fertilizers with effectively an all together new plant (or ...
This website acts as a gateway to Invasive Species Ireland. From here, users will be able to find information on a range of species, policy related to individual species or groups of species, and action plans to deal with species that threaten the biodiversity and economies of Ireland. http://invasivespeciesireland.com/
ITALIAN MAGISTRATE CHARGES BAYER AND SYNGENTA MANAGERS FOR KILLING BEES WITH CLOTHIANIDIN
Date: 18 August 2011
Please see the attached WORD article from Italy's national newspaper LaStampa. A Turin magistrate has had senior managers from Bayer and Syngenta charged with spreading chemicals (Clothianidin) that kill bees - on the grounds that this threatens the national economy of Italy. He has already ruled that they are 'culpable' - i.e. they have to answer ...
Every year, in a tradition dating to the 1940s, thousands gather in the Spanish town of Buñol for La Tomatina, a giant “food fight”, in which participants gleefully pelt each other with tomatoes and get very, very messy. There’s blood in the streets, but it belongs to the tomatoes.However, according to a study in the ...
Invasive species alert for: Harmonia axyridisCommon name(s): Harlequin Ladybird, Multicoloured Asian Ladybird, Halloween Ladybug.Why the concern? This is an invasive species of ladybird that was found at two sites in the Republic of Ireland during November 2010. Previous records came from 2007 and 2009 in Northern Ireland.If the harlequin ladybird becomes established, it will threaten native ...
Dear subscribers and Transition advocates,Hello my name is Davie Philip and I am currently the coordinator of TIN, Transition Ireland and Northern Ireland, a role I do on a voluntary basis supported by a steering group made up of representatives from Transition Initiatives from around Ireland. The steering group are currently trying to assess how many ...
