Gardening By The Moon
Last month, Jane Hawley Stevens of Four Elements Organic Herbals gave a wonderful presentation at the Growing Stronger Collaborative Conference about gardening according to the phases of the moon. Stevens did a beautiful job of explaining how this concept works, and why you might want to experiment with it in your own garden.
Take Action! Tell Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz: Switch to Organic Milk!
Starbucks uses more than 93 million gallons of milk per year. Starbucks is the largest coffee chain in the world, with 20,100 stores, and annual sales of $14.9 billion. Imagine the impact a company that
Scientists, Lawyers, and Policy Experts: Sign The Gain-of-Function Moratorium Letter
Thirty years of gain-of-function experiments have not delivered any significant benefits such as cures or safe vaccines, clearly showing that the risks substantially outweigh the benefits. Therefore, after evaluating the benefits versus the risks of gain-of-function experimentation, we the undersigned call for a US and global moratorium on all gain-of-function experiments. The moratorium will stay in place until the UN Secretary General calls a head-of-state-level Summit on the hazards of gain-of-function research; and recommendations are made and implemented to improve biosecurity and ensure that no pandemic biological threats will result from this research.