by Mark Poznansky | Jun 21, 2021 | Events
Lecture at The Cummings Jewish Centre in Montreal Humanity is in crisis. We face existential threats to our health, to the security of our food supply and to the status of our environment, including climate change. That’s the bad news. The good news is that if we can...
by Mark Poznansky | May 21, 2021 | News
Interview with Steve Paikin on The Agenda Last evening, I spoke with Steve Paikin (The Agenda on TVO) about the future of our climate and the role that synthetic biology might play in addressing some of the greatest threats to humankind. You will find the video below...
by Mark Poznansky | Apr 19, 2021 | Environment, Politics/Policy
A Place Called KLEEN The name of this fictional “self-contained” entity is KLEEN. You could think of KLEEN as an independent country — although, it could also be a state, a province or a region within a country. Coal, oil and gas were discovered in KLEEN around the...
by Mark Poznansky | Apr 9, 2021 | Environment, Food, Health
The Nature of Food Must Change And why is that? Simply put, agriculture is one of our core activities that is destroying our environment. It is one of the major contributors to global warming and climate change. And what’s the evidence for that you might ask?...
by Mark Poznansky | Mar 8, 2021 | Environment
Let’s Slay The Bogeyman Nuclear Power is safe, clean and can have a very small carbon footprint. By all accounts, it is an important technology which may allow us to save humanity from the ravages of climate change and global warming. It has, however, a...
