Shopping App Let’s You Boycott Monsanto and Others. By Christina Sarich Natural Society May 17, 2013 Have you ever wished you could own a parrot that sat on your shoulder and said, “squak! Don’t buy that’ as you ambled through a grocery store or retail shop, purchasing something like toilet paper or a box of macaroni shells that would add to the financial coffers of companies like Monsanto , or billionaire industrialist David Koch? While your local grocery store probably wouldn’t let you get much further than the pet food aisle, you can now download an App for your Android or iPhone that tells you exactly when you are about to purchase GMO corn or Dixie Cups, a product of one of the many subsidiary companies of Koch Industries, Georgia Pacific. In fact, the App will trace the product all the way back to its ‘parent’ company , so you know exactly who you are supporting with your purchases.
Related : Top 10 GMOs to Avoid Ivan Pardo, a 26-year old wiz kid is the freelance programmer who created the App. Deformed fish in Alberta: Scientist thinks he knows why. OTTAWA - A renowned Canadian scientist says there appear to be similarities between fish deformities found downstream from Alberta's oilsands and those observed after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska and Florida's Deepwater Horizon disaster. David Schindler of the University of Alberta has written two federal cabinet ministers pointing out the research similarities. He's proposing that some chemical or suite of chemicals found in crude oil may be causing the malformations, and he'd like to see Canada take the lead in researching the issue. In a letter to Fisheries Minister Keith Ashfield and Environment Minister Peter Kent, Schindler says the federal Experimental Lakes Area in northwestern Ontario would be ideal for studying specific chemical impacts on fish in the wild.
Ottawa announced last year that it was closing the Experimental Lakes Area, a remote region of 58 pristine lakes that have been used since 1969 for groundbreaking freshwater studies. Arctic. Greenhouse gas level nearing 'significant' level - World. The world's air has reached what scientists call a troubling new milestone for carbon dioxide, the main global warming pollutant.— Monitoring stations across the Arctic this spring are measuring more than 400 parts per million of the heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere. The number isn't quite a surprise, because it's been rising at an accelerating pace. Years ago, it passed the 350 ppm mark that many scientists say is the highest safe level for carbon dioxide.
It now stands globally at 395. So far, only the Arctic has reached that 400 level, but the rest of the world will follow soon. "The fact that it's 400 is significant," said Jim Butler, global monitoring director at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Lab in Boulder, Colo. Carbon dioxide is the chief greenhouse gas and stays in the atmosphere for 100 years. Carbon dioxide is the chief greenhouse gas and stays in the atmosphere for 100 years. Until now. 400 ppm mark a psychological milestone.