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derby potatoes needs stopping, but what about genetic "medicine"?

26-08-2006 07:34 | Bio-technology | Technology | Workers' Movements | World

from main page first reported in uk indy national site & gm watch,also Radio Nottingham recently.If anyone has details of these potato crops please put them up on indymedia so people know where they are & can protect their own crops & genes.But how many people also know that the recent monster elephant man drugs were genetic medicine made by german Biotech company Tegenero.
Nottingham has its own biocity with gm companies & connection to nanotechnology etc next to the bbc island on london road, as there are no safety regulations what happens to people nearby if dangerous particles escape or there is an accident?

"Low safety standards caused near-meltdown"

20-08-2006 22:29 | Ecology | Technology | World

The former safety chief of the Swedish power plant that nearly had a nuclear meltdown on 25 July blames the liberalisation of the power market for the breakdown. In addition to Forsmark, three other Swedish nukes are now off the grid for safety checks.

Doomsday Global Warming: Fact-Sheet / What To Do?

03-08-2006 16:00 | Analysis | Ecology | Technology | World

Drastic and tragic Climate Change is well underway, and will worsen unto Doomsday if we do not take drastic measures to stop its progress. Energy conservation is at best stopgap. The development of Green (clean, renewable, cheap) energy sources is indispensable. This has never been a particularly difficult technical problem. The Problem has been primarily political, necessitating a crucial political change --- Polluters' Power overridden by People's Power.

Geo Engineering with Sulphur proposed:

01-08-2006 10:39 | Ecology | Technology | World

Scientist Publishes 'Escape Route' from Global Warming
by Steve Connor

Mind the Gap... world energy crisis approaches, dire consequences for planet

Last year, for the first time since 1992, the UK became a net importer of crude oil as a result of terminal decline of the North Sea oil and gas fields. The British government doesn't appear to worried yet and apparently thinks the country can simply buy the energy it needs so quite some time to come. "The government consider that the world's oil resources are sufficient to prevent global total oil production peaking before 2030," said energy minister Malcolm Wicks earlier this month. Wicks said that the Government are already putting in place policies that will "help ease the UK economy away from power supplied primarily through fossil fuels" - probably a reference to the recent energy review and the U turn on nuclear power.

Tip for climbing fences

28-07-2006 21:18 | Animal Liberation | Anti-militarism | Technology | World

Many activists get arrested cutting through military fences and so get the extra charge of 'malicious mischief'. Using a ladder to climb fences is impracticable as you tend to get intercepted and charged for approaching a base with a ladder. You can buy 'telescopic-ladders' but they are very expensive so here is the cheapo solution.

COOKING PURE DATA

28-07-2006 01:03 | Culture | Free Spaces | Technology | World

COOKING PURE DATA
COOKIN RAW DATA
RAW IDEAS ?

Converging recipes…
we’re always ready to cook…

Review of New Indymedia Film, "i"

25-07-2006 16:39 | Analysis | Indymedia | Technology | World

"i,” the powerful and occasionally frustrating new film by independent directors Raphael Lyon and Andres Ingoglia, tells of one such democratic moment, the Argentinean economic collapse of 2001 and the social uprisings that accompanied it. Along the way it also functions as one of the first, if not the very first, feature length films about the Independent Media Center (IMC, or Indymedia) movement, which chronicled the Argentine struggle as it unfolded.

Anyway. Here's an advance review of the Indymedia film "i" that I did for the upcoming issue of the Indypendent.

As London swelters and electricity prices go through the roof...

As the 5th International Workshop on Oil and Gas Depletion taking place in Italy this week, Peter Gerling of the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources in Germant, presented his controversial outline of Coal being the prime energy of the future....

ASPO 5 report - The Oil Depletion Protocol

19-07-2006 09:44 | Analysis | Globalisation | Technology | World

The question of when global production of oil will reach it's maximum and start begin it's inevitable decline has not been the only question being asked at the 5th International Workshop on Oil and Gas Depletion which has been taking place is Italy this week. Amoung the doom and gloom inplicit the facts and conclusions being presented, there also appears to be scope for hope and optimism.

Peaking at peak is Pisa - a report

19-07-2006 09:21 | Analysis | Technology | World

This is quick report on some of the views coming out of the ASPO 5 conference in Pisa this week...

Protests at Peak Oil Conference ?

18-07-2006 12:18 | Analysis | Technology | World

At first glance it could have been a protest by Friends of the Earth or the like outside a conference full of business men, but not this time....

Open letter to Greg Palast

12-07-2006 22:10 | Analysis | Globalisation | Technology | World

The growing ranks of Peak Oil deniers have been joined by an unexpected ally in the form of darling of the left, Greg Palast. In his new book, Armed Madhouse he expressed his opinion that peak oil is nothing more than a plot by big oil to extract higher and higher profits. His views are quickly and easily dismissed by looking at the history of new discoveries for new oil fields compared to the rates of extraction and demand. Below, Richard Heinberg lays out a detailed point by point counter to Greg Palasts claims...

Is 2006 the year of peak oil? The latest figures are suggesting it could be...

World production of oil has peaked according to Dr Ali Samsam Bakhtiari, a former executive of the National Iranian Oil Company. He predicts a fall of 32% by 2020 as wells dry up and new discoveries become rarer, smaller and harder to extract...

(c) 2006, Leamy

products using Nanotechnology

12-07-2006 06:09 | Technology | World

L'Oreal and Boots use nanoparticles in sunscreens and cosmetics, the Gap and Next are putting nanoparticles in clothes to make them stain and wrinkle resistant, Smith and Nephew are putting them in bandages while chemical company BASF are putting nanoparticles in food additives into drinks. Meanwhile Unilever and Nestle are working on nanoparticle ice cream. Unfortunately products that contain nanomaterials do not have to be labeled