ETC's reports and articles

The World Torpedoes Ocean Fertilization: End of Round One on Geo-Engineering
191 countries agree to a landmark moratorium on ocean CO2 sequestration 25 Dec 2007
Extreme Monopoly
Venter's Team Makes Vast Patent Grab on Synthetic Genomes 7 Dec 2007
Peak Soil + Peak Oil = Peak Spoils
30 Nov 2007
Farmers Call for Suspension of Seed Treaty
Governments fail to meet minimal Treaty obligations UN conference told 31 Oct 2007
UPDATED: The World's Top 10 Seed Companies - 2006
Based on 2006 Seed Revenues 29 Oct 2007
Syns of Omission
Civil Society Organizations Respond to Report on Synthetic Biology Governance from the J. Craig Venter Institute and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 16 Oct 2007
Press Release: Broad International Coalition Issues Urgent Call for Strong Oversight of Nanotechnology
Over Forty Groups Release Fundamental Principles for Nanotech Oversight, Citing Risks to the Public, Workers, and the Environment 30 Jul 2007
Die G(e)nome von Zürich
Internationale Organisationen verlangen Kontrollen für die Synthetische Biologie 24 Jun 2007
The G(e)nomes of Zurich: Civil Society Calls for Urgent Controls on Synthetic Life
24 Jun 2007
Planktos’s commercial ocean iron fertilization carbon-trading gambit: Brakes on Flakes
Intergovernmental scientific body fires shot across geoengineer’s bow 21 Jun 2007
Dumping on Gaia
Claiming to protect the planet from greenhouse gases, geo-engineer, Planktos, Inc., is poised to dump iron in waters off the Galapagos Islands and thumbing its nose at the International Maritime Organization and the US government 18 Jun 2007
Suicide-Seed Sequel: EU’s “Transcontainer” Turns Terminator into Zombie
12 Jun 2007
Synthia’s last hurdle?
Synthia – the “Original Syn” artificial microbe – may have jumped a hurdle that Dolly – the cloned sheep – never could 6 Jun 2007
Patenting Pandora’s Bug: Goodbye, Dolly...Hello, Synthia!
J. Craig Venter Institute Seeks Monopoly Patents on the World's First-Ever Human-Made Life Form 6 Jun 2007
Bill to Ban Terminator Introduced in Canada
30 May 2007

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