Category: Events
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San Diego to Host Pacific Rim Summit on Biotech and Bioenergy
Twelve years ago, a biotech conference in San Diego drew thousands of protesters, during a peak of activity challenging corporate patents on life and the cynical smokescreen of pro-poor policies and ‘feeding the world.’ Now, as global trade regimes have further concentrated and biotech has consolidated its role as a keystone industry not just in […]
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LBNL opens comment period for Richmond Bay Campus: Jan 4-Feb 4
While this announcement in the Richmond Confidential suggests that Bay Area residents might want to consider wildlife and birds, noise pollution and new traffic as they weigh in on the proposed second campus of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, here at synbiowatch, we’re quite a bit more concerned about bio-hazardous material, leakage of artificial organisms, worker safety, and […]
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Bay Area Alert!: LBNL opens comment period for Richmond Bay Campus: Jan 4-Feb 4
LBNL has opened comment period for Richmond Bay Campus: Jan 4-Feb 4. Read and download the notice of preparation, here : http://richmondbaycampus.lbl.gov/assets/docs/env/RBC_LRDP_EIR_NOP.pdf NOTE: A public scoping meeting for the Environmental Impact Review will be held from 7:00-9:00 PM on January 23, 2013 at the Richmond City Council Chambers, 403 Civic Center Plaza, Richmond. The US Department of […]
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Important talk: Questioning the Green Agenda
For local readers, here’s an important event coming up next week. See you there!
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Video: Biolab Health & Safety, from Council for Responsible Genetics
Current regulatory framework governing laboratory safety largely excludes new biological materials, genetically engineered viruses, nanomaterials and other biological materials.
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Jim Thomas and Becky McClain interviewed on KPFA, Berkeley
This morning on KPFA in Berkeley, Steve Zeltzer of California Coalition for Workers Memorial Day interviewed Jim Thomas of ETC Group and Becky McClain, a molecular biologist and a whistler blower who was infected by a mutated virus in a Pfizer lab, and then fired by the company after filing a grievance. The interview provides […]