In early March author Steven Druker challenged the Royal Society to justify its outspoken and partisan support of GMO crops, writes Colin Todhunter, and to correct any errors of fact in his book 'Altered Genes,Twisted Truths'. Three months later, the Royal Society remains silent. Is it frightened of genuine scientific debate?
… GMOs: the Royal Society's deafening silence Colin Todhunter | … 2015 Comment GMOs Science UK Health royal-society-cut.jpg Behind its palatial Nash … onto London's St James's Park, the Royal Society is maintaining an undignified silence …
The Royal Society wants us to take its word that GM crops are safe and healthy, writes Steven Druker. But it refuses to retract its errors, apologise to those whose reputations it has impugned, or enter into constructive debate on the issue. To restore its scientific integrity, it must abide by its own motto.
… The Royal Society's assault on the science of GM foods … Food Farming bookplate_of_the_royal_society_(great_britain)-cut.jpg The Royal Society wants us to take its word that GM … be defied: where the institution is the Royal Society, the world's oldest and most revered …
Eleven easy steps to get you started - from picking your committee and spreading the word to making it fun and worthwhile
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The Royal Society purports to provide unbiased information on scientific issues, writes Steven Druker. But its new guide on GMOs is grossly misleading - glossing over the many dangers inherent to the technology with bland, unsupported re-assurances. The Society must end its partisan promotion of GMOs or risk its reputation as Britain's premier scientific body.
… Royal Society must end its partisan, unscientific … News GMOs Science Health Food Farming royal-society-cut.jpg The Royal Society purports to provide unbiased …
How might a post-capitalist society evolve to meet the needs of humans and the natural world?
… How might a post-capitalist society evolve to meet the needs of humans and … need of the group, the institution, and of society. The only needs that can exist are … need is not met, the individual dies, the society collapses. Therefore the needs of the …
Claims that we need a 'big society' to fix our 'broken' one are just Victorian throwbacks - we have the business tools to survive; we just need a co-operative attitude to go with them
… Forget the 'big society'; we just need a co-operative one … And Economics Coops Co-ops Cooperative Society molly.jpg Claims that we need a 'big society' to fix our 'broken' one are just …
The NHS is one of our greatest institutions and we must defend it to the hilt, writes Natalie Bennett. But to build the healthy society we all want and deserve, we need joined up policies across the policy spectrum, valuing human wellbeing above crude economic growth.
… Natalie Bennett. But to build the healthy society we all want and deserve, we need … what the NHS can do for us, but what we, as a society, as policymakers, as politicians, can … to ask what we can do to create a healthy society. Of course there are reasons for doing …
The Royal Society has form on GM crops, writes the Soil Association - consistently Gung-ho! for the last 20 years, while refusing to engage with critics of the technology or even accept the existence of any problems. Its latest effort represents more of the same, while exposing this once August body to ridicule for its egregious scientific howlers.
… omission and misrepresentation: the Royal Society on GM crops Soil Association | 27th … The Royal Society has form on GM crops, writes the Soil … its egregious scientific howlers. This Royal Society document about GM crops , like every …
We can start building new tools for a democratic and ecological society once we understand hierarchy as the central problem, argues the SYMBIOSIS RESEARCH COLLECTIVE
… new tools for a democratic and ecological society once we understand hierarchy as the … and avoid reproducing it in building a new society, the social roots of hierarchy deserve … a more thorough exploration. In Western society, there are two prominent 'origin …
Outlining a system of needs from both ends of the political spectrum.
… and teams, and indeed how we better organise society to meet the needs of its members while … life and as worthy of happiness. There is no society on earth, no society even conceivable, whose members do not …
A gathering of civil society and social movements in Venezuela concluded last week with a strong demand for climate justice, writes Maruška Mileta. Rich countries must stop passing off their 'false solutions' - from nuclear power to geoengineering - and pay the costs of a rapid transition to low-carbon world that brings renewable energy to all.
… Civil society speaks: only a just world can prevent … A gathering of civil society and social movements in Venezuela … one like Venezuela - hosts a civil society meeting. But (without any … and listening to social movements and civil society? A space which finally recognises that …
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Building a more sustainable future is vital if our societies are to survive in a post-fossil-fuel future – but, argues Susan Roaf, the way we build must itself first change
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LONG READ: A critique of David Graeber and David Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity.
… that there is some ‘original’ form of human society; that its nature was fundamentally … there was no original form of human society; no time before inequality and … third question most of us ask: How did human society become so grossly unequal? …
The venerable society oil industry objected to the propaganda being sent to school children.
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The editor of the influential Worldwatch 'State of the World' report on the best ways to transform cultures from consumerism to sustainability
… Erik Assadourian: our society needs some serious cultural … Matilda Lee | 10th March 2010 Comment Society Politics And Economics Culture Change … competing for status, which, in our consumer society, is displayed largely through the …
Orthodox economics and finance have promoted a false account of money, writes Ann Pettifor. Change is necessary and possible. But it will come only through a revolution in the general public's understanding.
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Technology is crucial to all the big issues, but criticism is hampered by mythologies and structures of power, writes David King. Designed by and for corporate interests, modern industrial technologies embody a 400-year old technocratic philosophy of control of nature and people which must be confronted.
… 2015 Comment Technology Politics Economics Society blue gathering flyer-cut.jpg … every big issue about the future of global society hinges on technology, mainstream … is possible. The fundamental basis of any society is its relationship to nature, and …
Capitalism casts nature as a resource which is to be exploited, squeezed and discarded. This is in part because of a linear, reductive understanding of the world. But there is an alternative. Dialectical, systems thinking views nature and society through the lens of complexity, contradiction and phase transitions. DR ROBERT BIEL investigates
… When nature and society are seen through the lens of … systems thinking views nature and society through the lens of complexity, … of the capitalist, industrial system, society began treating nature as property, …
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The Ecologist and the Vegan Society launch an extensive report into attitudes about veganism among our regular readers.
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Cara is one of the Ecologist's New Voices contributors. An Irish-American environmental scientist and climate communicator living in Ireland, she lectures in climate change at University College Dublin and blogs and vlogs as ‘The Verdant Yank'. Here she challenges all environmental scientists to demand action on Climate Change from the politicians still turning a blind eye
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Within minutes of Labour's election defeat its MPs were denouncing Miliband for failing to 'embrace aspiration' and alienating 'wealth creators', writes Ben Whitham. But the real problem was that he never expressed a coherent alternative to neoliberalism and austerity, presenting at best a 'Tory lite' agenda that failed to inspire. And who are the real wealth creators anyway?
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40 years ago Mike Allaby wrote about Tibetan exiles living in Wales and how their success points to hope for maintaining cultural diversity...
… Archive 1970-2010 This Month 40 Years Ago Society september 1971 480 x 360.jpg 40 years … living in Wales were surrounding by a global society. In order to protect their identity … for their families around a larger global society. Allaby writes, ‘If ways can be …