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From Commodification to Conservation: Restoring Agrobiodiversity through Seed Breeding – Part I: 

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

The Corporate Consolidation of Seed Breeding Over the past decades, we have seen a hyper consolidation of the seed market with over 50% of seed sales coming from companies that are owned by four large biotechnology corporations. Source: Philip H. To strictly analyze the cost of seed, consider that corn farmers who paid $26.65

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GAO Publishes Science & Tech Spotlight on Biorecycling of Plastics

Brag

Biological recycling, or biorecycling, is an emerging technology that uses microbes, such as bacteria or fungi, to break down plastic into its basic components for reuse. According to GAO, entities seeking to engage in biorecycling could face a “complicated legal landscape” that may pose a challenge for the emerging technology.

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Earth System Interventions for Sustainability

Legal Planet

Importantly (and often misunderstood), he meant not that we are gods, but instead that technologies have given humanity powers that had previously been exclusive to the gods. I thus wrote the paper “ Earth System Interventions as Technologies of the Anthropocene ,” which was published (open access!)

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Special Policy News #6: The Transition

ESA

2 trillion plan includes $50 billion to create a new technology directorate for NSF. White House Office of Science and Technology Policy forms Interagency Task Force on Scientific Integrity. . There is $180 billion pegged overall in the plan for investment in research and development and “technologies of the future.”.

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Frontiers: Social Media and RSS

Frontiers

F Frontiers in Fungal Biology RSS @FrontFungalBio Frontiers in Food Science and Technology RSS @FrontFoodSciTec Frontiers in Forests and Global Change RSS @FrontSustain Frontiers in Future Transportation RSS @FrontFTransport.

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Biden administration requests 16% increase in domestic spending, $4 billion for climate and sustainability research

ESA

Echoing calls in Biden’s infrastructure plan and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s Endless Frontiers Act (see ESA Policy News, April 5, 2021 ), Biden’s budget request establishes a new directorate for technology, innovation and partnerships within NSF. Department of Energy. The Department of Energy Office of Science is funded at $7.4

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Policy News: September 12, 2022

ESA

The Government Accountability Office issued five new priority recommendations to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. White House : The Office of Science and Technology Policy released draft templates for disclosing current and pending sources of support in federal grant applications. Read the full report here.

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