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New nature preserve will be the largest on Earth

May 2, 2014, www.mnn.com | “New Caledonia, a small island chain in the South Pacific, just set aside the largest protected area on the planet. The sprawling marine park spans 1.3 million square kilometers — or more than 320 million acres — easily becoming the most expansive wilderness preserve anywhere, on land or at sea.”

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Brazil’s Federal Public Prosecutor Requests Total Ban of Glyphosate Herbicides

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March 26, 2014, sustainablepulse.com | “The Brazilian Federal Public Prosecutor in the Federal District has requested the Justice Department to suspend the use of glyphosate – the most widely used herbicide in Brazil. In addition, the prosecutor wants to challenge 2,4-D and the active ingredients methyl parathion, lactofem, phorate, carbofuran, abamectin, tiram and paraquat.”

“Brazil’s Public Prosecutor has requested a total ban on glyphosate based herbicides. The Public Prosecutor has also sought an injunction on 2,4-D as well as several other herbicides that are all suspected of damaging human health and environment, pending further toxicity studies and seeks to prohibit the release of 2,4-D resistant GMO crops. YAY! for Brazil. Let’s hope they follow in Sri Lanka’s footsteps and drop the ban hammer on Roundup and all glyphosate based herbicides. This leads us to ask: How many countries will BAN ROUNDUP before the U.S. decides it’s not ok to feed us carcinogenic, endocrine disrupting, genotoxic, neurotoxic and infertility producing Roundup and finally does the same?READ: http://sustainablepulse.com/2014/03/26/brazils-federal-public-prosecutor-requests-total-ban-glyphosate-herbicides/#.UzLj4a1dWqR.”

Photo: Brazil's Public Prosecutor has requested a total ban on glyphosate based herbicides. The Public Prosecutor has also sought an injunction on 2,4-D as well as several other herbicides that are all suspected of damaging human health and environment, pending further toxicity studies and seeks to prohibit the release of 2,4-D resistant GMO crops. YAY! for Brazil. Let's hope they follow in Sri Lanka's footsteps and drop the ban hammer on Roundup and all glyphosate based herbicides. This leads us to ask: How many countries will BAN ROUNDUP before the U.S. decides it's not ok to feed us carcinogenic, endocrine disrupting, genotoxic, neurotoxic and infertility producing Roundup and finally does the same?</p> <p>READ: http://sustainablepulse.com/2014/03/26/brazils-federal-public-prosecutor-requests-total-ban-glyphosate-herbicides/#.UzLj4a1dWqR</p> <p>#GMO #Brazil #Roundup #Glyphosate #BanRoundup #BanGlyphosate #LabelGMOs #NeedToKnowGMO #GMOFreeCanada #GMOFreeUSA
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Sri Lankan President Bans Sale of Roundup Over Chronic Kidney Disease Study

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March 15, 2014, sustainablepulse.com | “Sri Lanka has become the first country to ban the sale of Monsanto’s “Roundup” glyphosate weedicide after a study found that the weedicide is responsible for the increasing number of chronic kidney disease patients.”

“If it’s bad for humans, how can it be good for any other living thing?
Sri Lankan President Bans Sale of Roundup Over Chronic Kidney Disease Study
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Sri Lanka has beome the first country to ban the sale of Monsanto’s “Roundup” glyphosate weedicide after a study found that the…”
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Revolutionary Google-backed system unlocks power of ‘big data’ to save forests

February 20, 2014, news.mongabay.com | “World Resources Institute (WRI) today announced the release of a tool that promises to revolutionize forest monitoring. The platform, called Global Forest Watch and developed over several years with more than 40 partners, draws from a rich array of ‘big data’ related to the word’s forests and translates it into interactive maps and charts that reveal trends in deforestation, forest recovery, and industrial forestry expansion.”

Revolutionary system unlocks power of ‘big data’ to save forests by seeing where logging is worst
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World Resources Institute (WRI) today announced the release of a tool that promises to revolutionize forest monitoring. The platform, called…
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Grow Up! Rethink The Space Around You

Grow Up! Rethink The Space Around You.Here is some gr8 iformation on the value of vertical farming and why it excites me so, so much. I hope that we can get to the point where it is not just profit seekers, who are making this happen:Students at Columbia University determined that to feed 50,000 people,
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30 Story farm on 6.4 acres = feed 50,000 people
78 farms, using 0.1% Los Angeles
land Area = feed 3.9 million

Apply this to earth population of 7.2 billion. Need about 144, 000 vertical farms to feed the whole world. 921,000 acres of land – given that about 38% of earth’s land is currently being used for traditional agriculture, we find that we only need about .006% of the earth’s existing agricultural requirements. If the current agricultural acreage was used to put 30 story vertical farms side by side, then the food production would be enough to feed 34,440,000,000,000 (34 trillion people).

Grow up! Rethink the space around you.Hats off to The GreenHouse vertical farm! In a 48’x48′ greenhouse, the farm grows 135,000 plants a year in Tower Gardens, using 5% of the water used by outdoor farming. The farm supplies Walt Disney World resorts, along with Emeril’s Orlando, Ritz Carlton, Marriott World Center & the Hilton with fresh greens and herbs year round.”We also have incredibly small losses, and the consistency of growing allows us to be able to deliver the same quantities weekly to our restaurants, making us a lot more reliable than “traditional” farms.”… Katherine Grandey, Co-Founder & Owner of The GreenHouse

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In Girl Scouts vs. Kellogg’s over palm oil, rainforests and orangutans win

February 14, 2014, news.mongabay.com | “After a campaign waged by two charismatic Girl Scouts over questionably-sourced palm oil used in Girl Scout Cookies, Kellogg Company today announced a policy that will move it toward deforestation-free palm oil.  Under the commitment, Kellogg’s suppliers will have to meet specific sourcing criteria by the end of 2015.”

“Two Girl Scouts vs. Kellogg’s Over Palm Oil –> Rainforests, Girl Scouts and Orangutans Win!
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After a campaign waged by two charismatic Girl Scouts over questionably-sourced palm oil used in Girl Scout Cookies, Kellogg…”
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A Valuable Reputation – Tyrone Hayes exposes harmful chemicals

Hayes has devoted the past fifteen years to studying atrazine, a widely used herbicide made by Syngenta. The company’s notes reveal that it struggled to make sense of him, and plotted ways to discredit him.

February 10, 2014, www.newyorker.com | “In 2001, seven years after joining the biology faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, Tyrone Hayes stopped talking about his research with people he didn’t trust. He instructed the students in his lab, where he was raising three thousand frogs, to hang up the phone if they heard a click, a signal that a third party might be on the line. Other scientists seemed to remember events differently, he noticed, so he started carrying an audio recorder to meetings. ‘The secret to a happy, successful life of paranoia,’ he liked to say, ‘is to keep careful track of your persecutors.'”

“Tyrone Hayes: The Scientist Who Took on Leading Herbicide Manufacturer – Syngenta, against Atrazine
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Tyrone Hayes, a biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, has devoted the past fifteen years to studying the herbicide atrazine,…”
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The Power of Local Unity: Small US town enacts Free Food Trade

February 2, 2014, news-beacon-ireland.info | “Sedgwick, Maine, the first town in the US to legalize any kind of food transaction as free and legal in order to keep the right to produce raw milk, organic produce, free-range eggs, and more, is revolutionizing the way America keeps its food rights – including saying no to GMOs.”

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Sedgwick, Maine, the first town in the US to legalize any kind of food transaction as free and legal in order to keep the right to produce…”
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  • Connie Ashby “A simple seller and buyer agreement is entered into where federal regulations can be bypassed by the seller agreeing to consume food grown by their neighbors organically in their garden or by the farm up the street with their own hormone-free dairy cows that customers have known for decades. It takes the feds and their dirty Monsanto money right out of the game. It is commercially grown food that is killing us all, after all – not locally grown food…For those with their heads in a noodle about bypassing federal laws, the citizens of Maine have stated, “We the radicals who concocted this mutinous act of infamy believe that according to the Home Rule provisions of our State Constitution, the citizens of Sedgwick have the right to enact an ordinance that is “local and municipal in character.” These words are taken directly from this article…I have personal identification w/ this as I stopped breathing April of last yr and was on life support for two days…I have not gotten satisfactory explanations from my health care providers as to why I stopped breathing…however I have a sneaky suspicion it may be from the food I was consuming…after I was released from the hospital …I had a glass of milk (not raw milk) and could not breathe…there are so many growth hormones/antibiotics contained in it…the FDA is clearing dropping the ball and not doing their job…it’s enlightening to me to see an article like this…thank you for the post. This is truly good news to see something like this being done…I hope it catches on everywhere …we must become active participants in the daily foods we consume and the safety of it.”
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Successfully Removes Shipwrecks that were Destroying Coral Reefs in the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument; Marine Conservation Institute Helped Secure Funding for the Project

January 31, 2014, www.enn.com | “On January 16, 2014, a 16-person crew completed the removal of three sunken wrecks that plagued the coral reefs of the Pacific Remote Island Marine National Monument for over a decade. Nearly one million pounds of iron and other material were removed from the wreckage sites at Kingman Reef and Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuges inside the Marine National Monument in a 79-day operation.

The mess is gradually being cleaned up, step by step.
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L’Oreal pledges to wipe out forest destruction from its products by 2020

January 31, 2014, news.mongabay.com | “French cosmetics giant, L’Oreal, has pledged to stop using palm oil linked to deforestation for its products by 2020. Palm oil, which is found in both cosmetics and many food items, has been linked to widespread deforestation in places like Indonesia and Malaysia, decimating biodiversity and contributing to global warming. The crop, which is both high-yield and lucrative, is now becoming increasingly popular in Africa and Latin America as well.”

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“L’Oreal pledges to wipe out forest destruction from its products by 2020
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French cosmetics giant, L’Oreal, has pledged to stop using palm oil linked to deforestation for its products by 2020. Palm oil, which is…”
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