Next month, the 2nd U.S. Social Forum will take place in Detroit. Here is some space for creative economic thinking: The US Social Forum (USSF) is a movement building process. It is not a conference but it is a space to come up with the peoples’ solutions to the economic and ecological crisis. The USSF [...]
Archive for May 4th, 2010
Another U.S. Is Necessary
Posted in Uncategorized on May 4, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Roundup-Resistant Weeds
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged environmental economics, food, Food policy on May 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »
According to the New York Times, farmers are now struggling to cope with Roundup-Resistant weeds. Some excerpts: On a recent afternoon here, Mr. Anderson watched as tractors crisscrossed a rolling field — plowing and mixing herbicides into the soil to kill weeds where soybeans will soon be planted. Just as the heavy use of antibiotics [...]
