Dot Earth Blog: Technology as a Path to Product Transparency

After I posted yesterday on Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack's push for using scannable codes to provide consumers with information on food ingredients from genetically modified crops, Ben Grossman-Cohen of the anti-poverty group Oxfam International...

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Dot Earth Blog: Technology as a Path to Product Transparency

After I posted yesterday on Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack's push for using scannable codes to provide consumers with information on food ingredients from genetically modified crops, Ben Grossman-Cohen of the anti-poverty group Oxfam International...

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Dot Earth Blog: A Darker View of the Age of Us – the Anthropocene

Are we no wiser than bacteria smeared on agar, even as scientists identify an edge to the Petri dish? I alerted a batch of scholars and scientists focused on climate change and sustainable development to my taped talk on "Paths to a 'Good' Anthropocene"...

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Dot Earth Blog: Roundup: Can New E.P.A. CO2 Rules Have a Climate Impact?

A prime challenge in trying to limit the human influence on the climate is that the atmosphere is a commons. One country's actions limiting greenhouse gas emissions can be rendered moot if others don't act, as well. With that in mind, Fuzz Hogan, the...

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Dot Earth Blog: Behind the Mask – A Reality Check on China’s Plans for a Carbon Cap

BEIJING — Having covered China's stance on global warming since 1988, I've gotten attuned to the need to tread carefully when something is said that feels like a shift in the official position of this greenhouse gas giant. The ancient Chinese mask-changing...

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Dot Earth Blog: Behind the Mask – A Reality Check on China’s Plans for a Carbon Cap

BEIJING — Having covered China's stance on global warming since 1988, I've gotten attuned to the need to tread carefully when something is said that feels like a shift in the official position of this greenhouse gas giant. The ancient Chinese mask-changing...

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