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Coming this November, GMO Labeling Initiative on Your Ballot!
California’s Right to Know Campaign turned in nearly a million signatures earlier this month to secure the GMO Labeling Initiative’s spot on the November ballot. While signature gathering volunteers deserve a moment of victory, it may be only a respite before the big push during election season. This historic effort may face a tough push back campaign from some of the major biotech corporations, including Monsanto, Bayer, and others. Case in point, Vermont should be the first state to put a GMO-labeling law on the books, but since Monsanto has been threatening to sue, legislators there have been dragging their feet. Public opinion polls show that GMO Labeling is a popular effort, with some showing 90% of Americans support labeling genetically-modified foods. We’ll keep following and post updates on this campaign. In the meantime, Californians should head over to California Right to Know to find out how they can support this important effort.
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Ecology Center Statement on Gill Tract
The Ecology Center supports the vision of the Gill Tract as a UC Berkeley Center for Urban Agriculture Research and Training. This vision of the Gill Tract is aligned with the mission of public land-grant institutions and the Gill Tract’s incredible legacy as the birthplace of vital sustainable agriculture methods. It also honors the significant and continuous growth of both organic agriculture and urban agriculture, and the need for technical development and training in those fields.
The Ecology Center supports the desire of community members and activists to ensure that the Gill Tract land remains in agricultural use, and calls upon them to embrace a vision that includes university research and training that benefits urban communities across the state, nation, and globe.
The Ecology Center calls upon the University of California to commit to the creation of a Center for Urban Agriculture Research and Training, and to allow farming to continue alongside relevant research. We call on UC Berkeley to engage in meaningful, good faith discussion with the community, urban agriculture organizations, UC researchers, and the City of Albany on how to best manifest this vision.
BASIL Represented at Justice Begins With Seeds Conference Next Week
The BASIL seed library is hosting a panel and seed swap at this year’s Justice Begins with Seeds conference. The conference is all day next Friday and Saturday, May 18th and 19th in San Francisco. Please register and attend this amazing conference, and bring seeds to swap! Read on for details. READ MORE »
Honoring Our Heroes Who Have Passed Away
We want to take a moment to acknowledge some of our environmental leaders who have been laid to rest recently: Earnest Callenbach and Adam Yauch, aka MCA. READ MORE »