India's Forest Tribes Struggle on Edge of Economy
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Public awareness of the Energy Star label now stands at 56 percent of U.S. households, according to a nationwide survey of perceptions in 2003 released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday. This is a 15 percentage point increase in awareness over previous years, the EPA said. Commissioned by the Consortium for Energy Efficiency, a nonprofit organization that promotes the manufacture and purchase of energy-efficient products and services, the survey shows that in many major markets where local utilities and other organizations use Energy Star to promote energy efficiency to their customers, public awareness of Energy Star averages 67 percent. Energy Star is a federal government backed voluntary program that sets criteria for products and processes demonstrating superior energy efficiency, such as compact fluorescent light bulbs. If just one room in every U.S. home used Energy Star lighting, the change would keep one trillion pounds of greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere, the EPA estimates. The EPA and the Department of Energy (DOE) set energy efficiency criteria for products in 40 different categories of products that can bear the Energy Star label in the marketplace. These include appliances, electronics, office equipment, lighting, heating and cooling systems, windows, and […]
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Vermont Senators voted 28-0 Wednesday to support the Farmer Protection Act (S.164), a bill to hold biotech corporations liable for unintended contamination of conventional or organic crops by genetically engineered plant materials. The debate revolved around patent laws that allow biotech corporations like Monsanto to sue farmers for patent infringement whose fields are contaminated with genetically modified pollen or plant materials. Senator Vincent Illuzzi, a Republican representing Essex-Orleans, illustrated cross-pollination of corn varieties with multi-colored ears of Vermont corn. The vote comes after 79 Vermont towns have passed Town Meeting measures calling on lawmakers in Montpelier and Washington enact a moratorium on genetically modified organisms and 10 percent of Vermont's conventional dairy farmers have pledged not to plant the crops. "The Farmer Protection Act is a pre-emptive strike to stop predatory lawsuits against Vermont's family farmers by biotech companies like Monsanto," said Ben Davis with the Vermont Public Interest Research Group (VPIRG). "Today the Vermont Senate took the first step to defend family farmers from these kinds of intimidation suits and the hazards of genetically engineered crops." VPIRG is among a coalition of groups including Rural Vermont, Institute for Social Ecology, and Vermont Genetic Engineering Action Network who are spearheading […]
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