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Seed: With more than 13,000 enrolled members, the Eastern Band of the Cherokee has only around 400 people in the area who speak the language. Resurrecting and ENN FULL STORY Environmental News Network - King said seed from a test plot escaped several years ago while it was drying following harvest in the Willamette Valley, home to most of the U.S. grass seed industry and the world (via Cosmos)
KellyGarbato.com: Test-Tube Coral Babies May Mend Reefs Engineered Grass Found Growing in Wild Thousands of Katrina Evacuees Seen as Climate Refugees Heat, Drought Strain China's Power, Water Resources The Good Life in Valdez, Alaska, is Directly Related to the Oil Industry (via Cosmos)
The Evangelical Ecologist: updated: 17 Aug 2006 08:00am PDTEngineered Grass Found Growing in WildHeat, Drought Strain China's Power, Water ResourcesThe Good Life in Valdez, Alaska, is Directly Related to the Oil IndustryThousands of Katrina Evacuees Seen as Climate Refugees CommonsBlog (via Cosmos)
[Ksjtracker.mit.edu] Knight Science Journalism Tracker » Blog Archive » NYTimes: EPA ...: The NYTimes’s Andrew Pollack reports that EPA workers have found, near a test site in central Oregon, a few grass plants growing outside on their own. It’s news more because of the principle of the thing than any major ecological risk, sources tell him.
[Organicconsumers.org] Genetically Engineered Grass Spreading into the Wild in Oregon: Bentgrass is a perennial, so once out there it regrows year after year, whereas most GM crops - mainly soybeans, maize and canola (oilseed rape) - are annuals, unable to reproduce, harvested each year and replaced with an entirely new crop the next. Another worry is that unlike the other GM crops, bentgrass has many relatives in the US with which it can cross-breed or hybridise, potentially passing on the glyphosate-resistance gene to other species - with unpredictable results.
[The Inoculated Mind] Mendel’s Garden #4: A genetic journey through a... : I hope that you have enjoyed this tour of the EC Garden at UC Davis, and what I have to say about the plants growing here, and the intermingling of the latest genetics blogging (and articles) in the fourth edition of Mendel’s Garden. Next to this image of a DNA sculpture I put up in my garden, I want to talk about ignorance of genetics.
[Survivor Left Blogistan] Where Oh Where Did The GMO Go?: The genetically engineered grass, called creeping bentgrass, is being developed by the Scotts Miracle-Gro Company and Monsanto for use on golf courses. It contains a bacterial gene that makes the grass resistant to the herbicide Roundup, known generically as glyphosate.
[Toward a Bioregional State] COMMODITY ECOLOGY: From Living Machines "End of... : Taking a full step beyond ecological modernization would be ecological engineering--when tools for those interested in sustainablity cease to be categorized as environmental or social because the point is superfluous--where there are 54 basic tools to use instead: the 54 different types of commodities and how to select wisely between them to integrate them into ecological engineering dynamics in particular watersheds, in the first place. Instead of simply juggling externalities and outputs like ecological modernization mostly does, or instead of simply green-on-the-outside remediation of "end of pipe" frameworks like living machines, ecological engineering would juggle inputs as well, choosing particular inputs wisely in the start to maintain geographic local health, ecological, and economic durability to minimize the whole concept of dangerous externalities that require remediation in the first place.
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