– “Unnecessary to worry about fruits, veggies with pesticide residue” (USA)
– “Whodunit: Unwitting Oregon Bee Killer Turns Self In” (Bob the beekeeper, USA)
– Agent Orange: Background on Monsanto’s Involvement
– Solar Power Plants Are Literally Roasting Birds In-Flight (Slate.com)
– Mind of plants : Documentary on the intelligence of plants (video)
“Unnecessary to worry about fruits, veggies with pesticide residue” (USA)
In this story, which has been issued in some daily newspapers in the USA, Barbara Quinn, a nutritionnist, disagrees with the “Dirty Dozen” campaign of the EWG, a environmentalist NGO: It “may unnecessarily scare people from eating perfectly safe and healthy food”, she writes. “Even the EWG, which publishes the “dirty dozen” list, confirms “the health benefits of a…
“Whodunit: Unwitting Oregon Bee Killer Turns Self In” (Bob the beekeeper, USA)
“Whodunit: Unwitting Oregon Bee Killer Turns Self In” is a story on real facts, written by Bob the beekeeper, a professional beekeeper and American blogger, In June 2014, on her blog, Dena Rash Guzman, an Oregon (USA) citizen, hobbyist beekeeper, suspected neonicotinoids pesticides of of the mass bee die-off which striked her hives. Activist groups like Beyond Pesticides wasted…
Agent Orange: Background on Monsanto’s Involvement
Not so easy nowadays to speak about Monsanto without inducing emotional reactions. For a number of environmentalist NGO, Monsanto is the Devil. They claim « Vade retro Monsanto ». Being repeated, some myths on Monsanto are accepted as truth by the public. One of this very common myths is the fact that Monsanto is supposed to be the discoverer and…
Solar Power Plants Are Literally Roasting Birds In-Flight (Slate.com)
Promoting renewable energy is not an easy job: “it gets dogged by some ironic bit of environmental unpleasantness. Wind turbines can be dangerous to birds and bats. Biofuels require so much land, fertilizer, and water that they may use more energy to produce than they provide. Hydropower dams screw up a whole lot of river habitat and stop fish…
Mind of plants : Documentary on the intelligence of plants (video)
In this video clip (K production, Gedeon programmes and Arte france co-production), we can see how plants, sometimes and in a certain way, communicate and collaborate against pests, including mammals and to reinforce their natural defences. ! They react to sunshine, gravity, temperature and other stimuli. Plants can be trained against attacks of pests. In short, they are more…