by Mark Poznansky | Feb 9, 2020 | Environment, Politics/Policy
Politics/Policy OK, I admit it. I thought the whole idea of Eco-Anxiety was a bit of a joke or really a ploy to bring attention to a cause. I wasn’t downplaying the idea or the severity of our climate change issue but I looked at “Eco-Anxiety” or a somewhat...
by Mark Poznansky | Jan 31, 2020 | Environment, Food, Health
Aden Solway NOTE TO READER I’m well aware that this Blog is unlikely to win me a popularity contest amongst an awful lot of people. The average Joe will be worried, traditional farmers will be furious, and “foodies” will be appalled. But our world is in Crises. Global...
by Mark Poznansky | Jan 20, 2020 | Environment, Food, Health, Politics/Policy, Uncategorized
Environment An excellent essay published in the Washington Street Post (2016) by Joel Achenbach, entitled “107 Nobel laureates sign letter blasting Greenpeace over GMOs”: More than 100 Nobel laureates have signed a letter urging Greenpeace...
by Mark Poznansky | Dec 17, 2019 | Blog, Environment, Politics/Policy
Environment If Canada is to compete as a “High Tech Nation”… We need some “Moonshot”, out of the box thinking. We have to give crazy, seemingly “impossible” ideas, the time of day. Scientists often say that “we live and die by the peer review system” and that...
by Barry Veerkamp | Nov 26, 2019 | Environment, Food, Health
Blog Steve Jobs, of Apple fame was quoted shortly before his death as saying……”I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at theintersections of Biology and Technology”Synthetic Biology is a relatively recent technology that is focussed on our...
by Barry Veerkamp | Nov 26, 2019 | Environment
Day: November 26, 2019 Here are 12 different (and false) statements that Climate Change Deniers say and the arguments you might use to put them in the place……but don’t despair the facts are on your side and numbers don’t lie. 1) This past winter, the coldest one ever...
