Corporate-Government “Tiger Team” Gutted GMO Regulations
Documents retrieved via Access to Information requests show a high level of collusion between Canadian government agencies and the world’s largest seed and pesticide companies
From Lucy Sharratt | The Watershed Sentinel | November 28, 2023
Media investigations in 2022 and 2023 uncovered a trail of documents showing that federal government departments worked directly with the biotechnology industry to design the new regulatory guidance for gene-edited GMOs, in a committee they called the “Tiger Team.”
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The nuclear option
From Eugene Ellman | Corporate Knights | March 20, 2024
With the nuclear calamities of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl fresh in the public mind, the 1980s saw a number of socially responsible investment funds pledge to keep nuclear energy out of their portfolios. The trend quickly spread, and soon the exclusion of companies that were involved in nuclear became the bedrock of socially conscious investment funds.
How nature-based knowledge can restore local ecosystems and improve community well-being
From Saeed Rahman, University of The Fraser Valley and Natalie Slawinski, University of Victoria | Yahoo!News | March 10, 2024
Organizations in the food and agriculture sector have been looking to nature for inspiration to improve soil health, maintain water quality and foster local food security in the places where they operate.