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Unseen Hazards: from Nanotechnology to Nanotoxicity
from FoodWater in Research, Science
Nanotechnology—engineerin g extremely small particles at the molecular level to create materials with new behaviors and chemical properties—is a powerful new scientific pursuit, one with the potential to produce the next electricity or combustion engine—the next thing to change everything. / Unfor...
Mortgaging Milwaukee’s Future: Why Leasing the Water Syst...
from FoodWater in Government & Organizations
The City of Milwaukee faces a serious fiscal predicament. Its budget deficit could top $100 million by 2010, and laws restrict its ability to raise taxes to help offset the shortfall. In 2008, with this conundrum in mind, a public official proposed leasing the Milwaukee Water Works to generate a ...
Catch Shares: Problems in Fisheries Management
from FoodWater in Research, Law
Catch share fishery management programs — also commonly known as individual fishing/transferable quotas, rationalization or limited access privilege programs — can be used as a method to privatize access to fish. This means they can give control over catching fish to only a handful of private ind...
Casino of Hunger: How Wall Street Speculators Contributed...
from FoodWater in Research, Business & Economics
During 2008, rising food prices — accelerated by an unprecedented run-up of prices on the commodities futures markets — created a food crisis that increased global hunger, sparked civil unrest and hurt farmers in America and worldwide. The global food crisis is an overlooked symptom of the broade...
Cap-Rent-Recycle: Common Sense on Catch Shares
from FoodWater in Research, Law
When it comes to management of U.S. fish resources, can we: • maintain public control of OUR fish resource? / • manage for long-term ecosystem health? / • promote green jobs and real living wages? / • promote fairer rules for small-scale fishermen? / • strengthen coastal and fishing communities? / • get a ...
Poseidon Resources’ Carlsbad Desalination Plant Is a Bad ...
from FoodWater in Research, Business & Economics
In order to ensure that Southern California is able to meet its future water demand, environmental and economic needs, public funding should prioritize projects that support regional independence, greenhouse gas reduction, job creation and consumer and environmental health protection. While polic...
Poseidon Resources’ Carlsbad Desalination Plant Is a Bad ...
from FoodWater in Research, Business & Economics
In order to ensure that Southern California is able to meet its future water demand, environmental and economic needs, public funding should prioritize projects that support regional independence, greenhouse gas reduction, job creation and consumer and environmental health protection. While polic...
Seafood Buying Guide for Chefs
from FoodWater in How-to-Guides & Manuals
With so many different seafood options available to chefs and restaurants, / how can you make choices that are best for your customers’ health, the / environment and the communities that bring fish to the table? There are so many different factors to consider, choosing the right seafood can be a ch...
Desalination: An Ocean of Problems
from FoodWater in Research, Science
As local, state and federal policymakers in the United States increasingly fear water shortages, private companies are marketing desalination as a solution. While they offer to take the salt out of seawater for two or more times the cost of other water sources, they fail to advertise the toxic ch...
In Focus: Public-Private Partnerships for Water Service —...
from FoodWater in Research, Law
Two bills sitting before Congress would help protect our valuable water resources and expand access to safe and clean water to communities around the world.
Dairy Crisis 101
from FoodWater in Research, Health & Medicine
You’re not getting what you pay for in the dairy aisle these days. While shoppers are led to believe that the milk they purchase comes from tranquil pastures, where farmers watch over happy milk cows grazing on green fields, the reality is not so idyllic. Today’s dairy industry doesn’t work for c...
Why Water Bottlers Are Bad for Your Community
from FoodWater in Research, Science
Companies that want to make billions of dollars selling bottled water are looking for new sources of water and new sites to build their plants — and they may be coming to your town next. Multinational corporations may promise benefits to the area, but they will probably fail to mention the reason...
Unmeasured Danger: America’s Hidden Groundwater Crisis
from FoodWater in Research, Science
Most Americans don’t spend much time thinking about the water in the ground beneath our feet, yet this water plays a vital role in our lives. Water pumped from the ground makes up about 40 percent of our national drinking and agricultural supplies and affects the health of all our freshwater. And...
Food Alert – Fall 2009
from FoodWater in Magazines & Newspapers
Twoje źródło informacji na temat bezpieczeństwa żywności i rolnictwa przemysłowego w Europie Wschodniej
Food Alert – Fall 2009
from FoodWater in Magazines & Newspapers
Twoje źródło informacji na temat bezpieczeństwa żywności i rolnictwa przemysłowego w Europie Wschodniej
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