Friends of the Earth Archives

Help Our Honeybees, Help Ourselves

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer app, bee, Bee Smart Pollinator Gardener, bees, FoE, Friends of the Earth, Michigan State University, MSU, NRDC, pollinate, pollinator

Doing your part to help bees come back will not only help guarantee that we can continue to enjoy the diversity of agricultural products we have come to expect on grocery store shelves.

Warming World

Benjamin Schreiber of Friends of the Earth Talks Strategy Against Trump

Ethan Goffman bill, Clean Power Plan. Paris, coal, Department of Fish and Wildlife, Environment America, EPA, ExxonMobil, FoE, Friends of the Earth, globalization, Markey-Waxman, mining, podcast, Rex Tillerson, Scott Pruitt, Standing Rock, Trump, TrumpWatch

What worries Ben Schreiber of Friends of the Earth most right now is Trump’s roll-back of the environmental protections set in motion by Barack Obama…

EarthTalk

What are the environmental risks of synthetic biology?

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer Evolva, Friends of the Earth, GE, genetic engineering, GMO, SYNBERC, synthetic biology, Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center

Dear EarthTalk: Should those of us who care about our health and the planet be concerned about the new trend in genetic engineering called synthetic biology? – Chrissie Wilkins, Bern, NC “Synthetic biology” (or “synbio”) refers to the design and fabrication of novel biological parts, devices and systems that do not otherwise occur in nature. […]