Reducing Waste

How can your community reduce waste? This is a great resource for teachers and parents to help the next generation of Americans reduce, reuse, and recycle by identifying the difference between sustainable and non-sustainable practices.

If your habits resemble those of average Americans, you generate about 4 pounds of solid trash per day. This adds up to big trouble for the environment. Americans are generating waste products faster than nature can break them down and using up resources faster than they can be replaced.

Pharmaceuticals Taint Food Supply

Alarm as GM pig vaccine taints US crops. A small biotech firm in Texas was fined $3 million for tainting half a million bushels of soya bean with a trial vaccine used to prevent stomach upsets in piglets. As small farms look for more valuable crops to help them preserve a way of life many feel is under siege, many are turning to "pharming," growing pharmaceutical and industrial compounds genetically inserted into grains typically grown as food. The biggest problem facing pharming is containment -- ensuring that these genetically modified plants stay out of the food supply. The debate on how to regulate this industry rages in Washington while the American media barely reports on it.