Might scary! "...can it overcome the ick factor?" Mega agrichem, agripoison, GMO ICK factor. It's much more than icky! In a natural living organism, evolution designs robust, self protecting (as in immune system) systems. We have seen artificial confined animal feeding operations (CAFO) destroy these immune systems, producing anti-biotic resistant disease breeding food chain problems. Is GMO soon to add genetic disease to the equation? It messes with the very evolutionary design down to the bacterial, viral, cellular, DNA level. ICK!!!!   more »

This is the sort of real free market trading that will finally eliminate fossil, nuclear, and ethanol fuel farming energy. Forget cap and trade hedge fund manipulation, that's the wrong kind of trading to get markets to respond to the realities of GHG climate disaster and economic ruin from soaring energy costs and oil war.   more »

After a narrow defeat in the senate, the concept of diverting subsidies, tax breaks given to big oil monopolies, is actually getting some notice. A modest propsal to divert a measly 13 billion over 10 years in oil company tax breaks (only 1.3 billion per year out of the 18 billion per year total) and apply them in part to renewable energy subsidies was just too hard to get by oil lobbyist controlled legislators. But it's a start.    more »