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Websites
- GM-free Ireland
- Keeping the island of Ireland off-limits to the environmental release of genetically modified organisms.
- Seeds of Deception
- What the biotech industry doesn't want you to know.
- GMWatch
- Keep up to date with the latest news on the issue of genetically modified (GM) food and crops.
- GM Freeze
- The campaign on GM food, crops and patents.
- GM Free Cymru
- GM Free Cymru is an alliance of farmers, environmentalists, and other individuals who seek to use non-violent democratic means to keep Wales free of GM crops.
- Mark Twight
- It’s not comfortable reading, but I print out this essay whenever I’m getting mentally or physically or morally flabby.
- hIrScH
- The best cycling/travel writing I’ve come across. He nails what it feels like.
- Ben Saunders
- A beautiful site, and excellent content.
- Netvibes
- Netvibes is a free web service that brings together your favourite media sources and online services.
- BBC iPlayer
- Catch up with BBC radio and television programmes from the past week (UK only).
Books
- Genetic Roulette
- Author: Jeffery M. Smith
Description: Genetic Roulette is an excellent, authoritative book which brings together all the information we have to date on genetically modified crops and food.
ISBN: 0972966528 - The Life of Mahatma Gandhi
- Author: Louis Fischer
Description: This is a biography of Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948).
ISBN: 0006388876 - Slow Food Nation
- Author: Carlo Petrini
Description: Emphasising the use of natural, organic, and healthy ingredients, the author explains how we can conserve natural biodiversity and protect fading agricultural practices that are threatened by mass consumerism, by implementing the culinary traditions of the native peoples of diverse regions around the world.
ISBN: 0847829456 - The World is not for sale
- Author: Jose Bove and Francis Dufour
Description: In this lively and hard-hitting book Bove, and Francois Dufour, recount the dramatic events of their famous demonstration against MacDonald's and examine the issues behind the resulting campaign, which has now stretched from France and Seattle around the world.
ISBN: 1859844057 - Seeds of Deception
- Author: Jeffery M. Smith
Description: This book reveals the dangerous gamble, which genetically modified food takes our health.
ISBN: 1920769080 - Wind, Sand and Stars
- Author: Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Description: In 1926 de Saint-Exupéry began flying for the pioneering airline Latécoère - later known as Aéropostale - opening up the first mail routes across the Sahara and the Andes.
ISBN: 0141183195 - For whom the Bell Tolls
- Author: Ernest Hemingway
Description: Hemingway's evocation of the pride and the tragedy of the civil war that tore Spain apart. A young American volunteer is sent to handle the dynamiting of a bridge behind the lines of Franco's army. In the mountains he find the dangers and the intense comradeship of war - and he discovers Maria.
ISBN: 0099908603 - As I walked out one Midsummer morning
- Author: Laurie Lee
Description: It was 1934 and a young man walked to London from the security of the Cotswolds to make his fortune. He was to live by playing the violin and by labouring on a London building site. Then, knowing one Spanish phrase, he decided to see Spain.
ISBN: 0140033181 - The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, complexity and the radical remaking of economics
- Author: Eric Beinhocker
Description: It is unquestionably the most important business book of the year.
ISBN: 0712676619 - Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages
- Author: Carlota Perez
Description: A novel interpretation of the good and bad times in the economy, taking a long-term perspective and linking technology and finance in an original and convincing way.
ISBN: 1843763311
Organisations
- GMWatch
- GMWatch is an independent organisation, founded in 1998, which seeks to counter the enormous corporate political power and propaganda of the biotech industry.
- The Institute of Science in Society
- The Institute of Science in Society is a not for profit organisation dedicated to providing critical and accessible scientific information to the public and to promoting social accountability and ecological sustainability in science.
- Genetic Engineering Network
- The Genetic Engineering Network is a network of people opposed to the imposition of GM technology.
- GM Freeze
- The GM Freeze campaign is supported by an alliance of organisations sharing the public's deep concern over the speed at which genetic engineering is being introduced into food and farming.
- GM Free Cymru
- GM Free Cymru is a community pressure group based around Mathry, Pembrokeshire, which campaigns to keep Wales free of genetically-modified crops.
- The RGS
- If they would focus on what people are interested in (hardcore, groundbreaking expeditions) rather than anoraks and geography field trips.
- Hope and Homes for Children
- My round the world ride supported this charity.
- Amnesty International
- For so many people on Earth, life sucks. Amnesty reminds us.
- Aspen Institute
- International nonprofit dedicated to fostering enlightened leadership and open-minded dialogue through seminars, policy programs, conferences and leadership programmes.
- Freedom Lab
- Studies into aspects of our future – sustainability, work, responsibility, technology…