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1st Edition: International Newsletter of the Campaign to STOP GE Trees
The Campaign to STOP GE Trees has an International Newsletter! September 21, 2023 Genetically engineered (GE, or genetically modified) trees pose serious environmental risks yet research on genetically engineering trees continues. While very few GE trees have been approved for commercial release globally, the regulatory landscape is changing quickly. Now is the time to act to stop GE trees...
Profit Trumps People and Planet in Brazil’s Eucalyptus Industry
Profit Trumps People and Planet in Brazil’s Eucalyptus Industry Brazil is set to unleash several varieties of genetically engineered eucalyptus, which will worsen a bad situation. By Steve Taylor and Orin Langelle This article was produced by Global Justice Ecology Project and is based on a trip to Brazil by the International Campaign to STOP GE Trees. It was syndicated by Earth | Food | Life, a...
OLCA: Knowledge Meeting Seminar: “Transgenic trees in indigenous territories”
OLCA: Knowledge Meeting Seminar: "Transgenic trees in indigenous territories" The webinar "Transgenic trees in indigenous territories" was broadcast on July 28, 2023 by the Colombian station Nuwam Radio. The Spanish version of the webinar can be found on OLCA's website. The webinar includes interviews with: Anne Petermann, Director of the Global Justice Ecology Project and...
Mongabay: Genetically engineered trees stoke climate hope — and environmental fears
Mongabay: Genetically engineered trees stoke climate hope — and environmental fears Juliette Portala article, Genetically engineered trees stoke climate hope — and environmental fears, appeared July 27, 2023 on the Mongabay website. Note: Anne Petermann, the cofounder of the Global Justice Ecology Project (GJEP) was interviewed for the article, at one point stating "Besides my concerns about...
National Geographic: To save chestnut trees, we may have to ‘play God’
National Geographic: To save chestnut trees, we may have to ‘play God’ This article by Sarah Gibbens appeared April 28, 2023 on the National Geographic's website. The article can also be read here. This article discusses American chestnut trees that have been genetically engineered to be blight-resistant. It outlines how the fungus that has attacked the American Chestnut tree, Cryphonectria...
Press Coverage
As Forests React to Climate Change, Can Genetically Modified Trees Stand in the Gap?
As Forests React to Climate Change, Can Genetically Modified Trees Stand in the Gap? Christian Yonker's April 17,...
REDD-Monitor: Living Carbon is selling carbon offsets with no peer-reviewed science to back its claims.
REDD-Monitor: Living Carbon is selling carbon offsets generated from planting genetically engineered trees: A false...
Photo of the Week: Chile Wildfires Six Years Later
Groups Call for Day of Action Following 2023 Wildfires in Chile 22 March is World Water Day. From 22-25...
The Wild American Chestnut Is On Its Way Back
The Wild American Chestnut Is On Its Way Back This article, written by Anne Petermann and Steve Taylor, originally...
New York Times: The first GE Trees have been planted in a U.S. Forest
New York Times: For the First Time, Genetically Modified Trees Have Been Planted in a U.S. Forest Summary of Article:...
Down To Earth: Are genetically-engineered trees really ‘the future’
Down To Earth: Are genetically-engineered trees really ‘the future’ This Down To Earth article examines the fierce...
Capital Press: GE chestnut trees underperform against root rot; pose risks
Capital Press: GE chestnut trees susceptible to phytophthora root rot The Capital Press article mentioned below...
The Washington Post Discusses Concerns Over the Approval of the GE American Chestnut Tree.
The Washington Post: Gene editing could revive a nearly lost tree. Not everyone is on board. The Washington Post...
New Earth Watch: Why the USDA Must Reject Release of GE Trees in Wild Forests
GJEP Executive Director Anne Petermann was interviewed for an hour special on the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Los Angeles, syndicated to millions of listeners across the country. She spoke about the importance of the imminent comment period called by the USDA regarding their draft decision to approve the release of genetically engineered trees into wild forests across the eastern US.
Wall Street Journal Raises Concerns about Proposed Release of GE Trees into Forests
Wall Street Journal Raises Concerns about Proposed Release of GE Trees into Forests
GE Trees Threaten Forests and Indigenous People’s Rights with Anne Petermann
In this episode of Breaking Green, we will talk with Anne Petermann, Executive Director of Global Justice Ecology Project about current threats to forests and indigenous peoples from attempts to genetically engineer trees for use in plantations and release into the wild.
GJEP Biodiversity False Solutions Press Conference covered in Pressenza
So-called “solutions” to the biodiversity and climate crises are being developed, not for the protection of biological diversity, but to ensure the unsustainable continuation of business as usual.
New Op-Ed in The Hill Questions Plan to Release GE Trees into Wild Forests
The USDA is requesting public comments on their plan to allow the release of GE trees into wild forests
KPFA’s A Rude Awakening Interviews Anne Petermann on COP26 & Hoodwinked in the Hothouse
A Rude Awakening with Anne Petermann Executive Director, Global Justice Ecology Project On 8 October 2020, Sabrina...
Over 170 Organizations Declare: Offsets Don’t Stop Climate Change
Environmental Justice and Human Rights Organizations Address Global Leaders Ahead of COP26: Carbon Offsets Don't Stop...
GJEP Supports Farmers Protesting in India
Canadian Labour, Civil Society Groups Express Solidarity With Protesting Farmers "The farmers are literally...
188 Environmental Groups Call for an end to Single Use Products
188 Environmental Groups Call for an end to Single Use Products, as the United Nations Environment Assembly gets set...
GJEP Co-Authors Opinion Piece on SLAPPs
More and more journalists and civil society organisations are being sued by powerful businessmen and politicians....
Listen-Discussions with David: Anne Petermann and Orin Langelle
David Rovics spends the hour talking with long-time organizers, founders of Global Justice Ecology Project, Anne...
GJEP Letter in New York Times Responds to Pro-GE Trees Piece
Global Justice Ecology Project submitted the letter below to the New York Times Magazine–it was published in its print...
GJEP Responds to NYT Magazine Article Promoting GE Trees
Forests and communities across the Eastern US would be threatened if researchers win US government approval to release...
Buffalo Rising: First Fridays Revisited
Photo: Langelle/GJEP Buffalo Rising 6 March 2020 by RaChaCha Also injecting an activist sensitivity has been the ¡Buen...
Artvoice: Chile: Peoples’ Uprising Images from the Front Lines at ¡Buen Vivir! Gallery
Photo: Langelle/GJEP Artvoice 5 March 2020 The ¡Buen Vivir! Gallery for Contemporary Art at 148 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo,...
The Daily Orange: Genetically Engineered Trees A Risk To Environment
The newspaper of the State University of NY (SUNY) at Syracuse is The Daily Orange. SUNY Syracuse's - Environmental...
Best of Censored News Gives Nod to Chile Coverage of Mapuche Uprising
Best of 2019 at CENSORED NEWS: Special thanks to Orin Langelle for live coverage from the protests and struggle for...
The Washington Post Runs Article on the American Chestnut
Blight wiped out the American chestnut. Parallel efforts are close to bringing it back. The Washington Post December...
A Discussion on the Realities of COP25
COP25 Was Moved to Spain to Conceal Chilean Government’s Human Rights Violation The Real News Network December 13,...
WBAI News Interviews Anne Petermann
WBAI News with Paul DeRienzo Interviews Anne Petermann December 12, 2019...
COP25: Perpetuating Impunity for Human Rights Violations
Santiago, Chile. On International Human Rights Day: tear gas canister flies through the air. A canister like this...
KPFK Interviews Alejandra Parra on Chile Protests & Global Environmental Justice
The climate bloc began at the metro stop La Moneda in front of the Central Unitaria de Trabajadores. Photo: Orin...
Most Recent Press Coverage
1st Edition: International Newsletter of the Campaign to STOP GE Trees
The Campaign to STOP GE Trees has an International Newsletter! September 21, 2023 Genetically engineered (GE, or genetically modified) trees pose serious environmental risks yet research on genetically engineering trees continues. While very few GE trees have been approved for commercial release globally, the regulatory landscape is changing quickly. Now is the time to act to stop GE trees...
Profit Trumps People and Planet in Brazil’s Eucalyptus Industry
Profit Trumps People and Planet in Brazil’s Eucalyptus Industry Brazil is set to unleash several varieties of genetically engineered eucalyptus, which will worsen a bad situation. By Steve Taylor and Orin Langelle This article was produced by Global Justice Ecology Project and is based on a trip to Brazil by the International Campaign to STOP GE Trees. It was syndicated by Earth | Food | Life, a...
OLCA: Knowledge Meeting Seminar: “Transgenic trees in indigenous territories”
OLCA: Knowledge Meeting Seminar: "Transgenic trees in indigenous territories" The webinar "Transgenic trees in indigenous territories" was broadcast on July 28, 2023 by the Colombian station Nuwam Radio. The Spanish version of the webinar can be found on OLCA's website. The webinar includes interviews with: Anne Petermann, Director of the Global Justice Ecology Project and...
Mongabay: Genetically engineered trees stoke climate hope — and environmental fears
Mongabay: Genetically engineered trees stoke climate hope — and environmental fears Juliette Portala article, Genetically engineered trees stoke climate hope — and environmental fears, appeared July 27, 2023 on the Mongabay website. Note: Anne Petermann, the cofounder of the Global Justice Ecology Project (GJEP) was interviewed for the article, at one point stating "Besides my concerns about...
National Geographic: To save chestnut trees, we may have to ‘play God’
National Geographic: To save chestnut trees, we may have to ‘play God’ This article by Sarah Gibbens appeared April 28, 2023 on the National Geographic's website. The article can also be read here. This article discusses American chestnut trees that have been genetically engineered to be blight-resistant. It outlines how the fungus that has attacked the American Chestnut tree, Cryphonectria...
Press Coverage
As Forests React to Climate Change, Can Genetically Modified Trees Stand in the Gap?
As Forests React to Climate Change, Can Genetically Modified Trees Stand in the Gap? Christian Yonker's April 17,...
REDD-Monitor: Living Carbon is selling carbon offsets with no peer-reviewed science to back its claims.
REDD-Monitor: Living Carbon is selling carbon offsets generated from planting genetically engineered trees: A false...
Photo of the Week: Chile Wildfires Six Years Later
Groups Call for Day of Action Following 2023 Wildfires in Chile 22 March is World Water Day. From 22-25...
The Wild American Chestnut Is On Its Way Back
The Wild American Chestnut Is On Its Way Back This article, written by Anne Petermann and Steve Taylor, originally...
New York Times: The first GE Trees have been planted in a U.S. Forest
New York Times: For the First Time, Genetically Modified Trees Have Been Planted in a U.S. Forest Summary of Article:...
Down To Earth: Are genetically-engineered trees really ‘the future’
Down To Earth: Are genetically-engineered trees really ‘the future’ This Down To Earth article examines the fierce...
Capital Press: GE chestnut trees underperform against root rot; pose risks
Capital Press: GE chestnut trees susceptible to phytophthora root rot The Capital Press article mentioned below...
The Washington Post Discusses Concerns Over the Approval of the GE American Chestnut Tree.
The Washington Post: Gene editing could revive a nearly lost tree. Not everyone is on board. The Washington Post...
New Earth Watch: Why the USDA Must Reject Release of GE Trees in Wild Forests
GJEP Executive Director Anne Petermann was interviewed for an hour special on the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Los Angeles, syndicated to millions of listeners across the country. She spoke about the importance of the imminent comment period called by the USDA regarding their draft decision to approve the release of genetically engineered trees into wild forests across the eastern US.
Wall Street Journal Raises Concerns about Proposed Release of GE Trees into Forests
Wall Street Journal Raises Concerns about Proposed Release of GE Trees into Forests
GE Trees Threaten Forests and Indigenous People’s Rights with Anne Petermann
In this episode of Breaking Green, we will talk with Anne Petermann, Executive Director of Global Justice Ecology Project about current threats to forests and indigenous peoples from attempts to genetically engineer trees for use in plantations and release into the wild.
GJEP Biodiversity False Solutions Press Conference covered in Pressenza
So-called “solutions” to the biodiversity and climate crises are being developed, not for the protection of biological diversity, but to ensure the unsustainable continuation of business as usual.
New Op-Ed in The Hill Questions Plan to Release GE Trees into Wild Forests
The USDA is requesting public comments on their plan to allow the release of GE trees into wild forests
KPFA’s A Rude Awakening Interviews Anne Petermann on COP26 & Hoodwinked in the Hothouse
A Rude Awakening with Anne Petermann Executive Director, Global Justice Ecology Project On 8 October 2020, Sabrina...
Over 170 Organizations Declare: Offsets Don’t Stop Climate Change
Environmental Justice and Human Rights Organizations Address Global Leaders Ahead of COP26: Carbon Offsets Don't Stop...
GJEP Supports Farmers Protesting in India
Canadian Labour, Civil Society Groups Express Solidarity With Protesting Farmers "The farmers are literally...
188 Environmental Groups Call for an end to Single Use Products
188 Environmental Groups Call for an end to Single Use Products, as the United Nations Environment Assembly gets set...
GJEP Co-Authors Opinion Piece on SLAPPs
More and more journalists and civil society organisations are being sued by powerful businessmen and politicians....
Listen-Discussions with David: Anne Petermann and Orin Langelle
David Rovics spends the hour talking with long-time organizers, founders of Global Justice Ecology Project, Anne...
GJEP Letter in New York Times Responds to Pro-GE Trees Piece
Global Justice Ecology Project submitted the letter below to the New York Times Magazine–it was published in its print...
GJEP Responds to NYT Magazine Article Promoting GE Trees
Forests and communities across the Eastern US would be threatened if researchers win US government approval to release...
Buffalo Rising: First Fridays Revisited
Photo: Langelle/GJEP Buffalo Rising 6 March 2020 by RaChaCha Also injecting an activist sensitivity has been the ¡Buen...
Artvoice: Chile: Peoples’ Uprising Images from the Front Lines at ¡Buen Vivir! Gallery
Photo: Langelle/GJEP Artvoice 5 March 2020 The ¡Buen Vivir! Gallery for Contemporary Art at 148 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo,...
The Daily Orange: Genetically Engineered Trees A Risk To Environment
The newspaper of the State University of NY (SUNY) at Syracuse is The Daily Orange. SUNY Syracuse's - Environmental...
Best of Censored News Gives Nod to Chile Coverage of Mapuche Uprising
Best of 2019 at CENSORED NEWS: Special thanks to Orin Langelle for live coverage from the protests and struggle for...
The Washington Post Runs Article on the American Chestnut
Blight wiped out the American chestnut. Parallel efforts are close to bringing it back. The Washington Post December...
A Discussion on the Realities of COP25
COP25 Was Moved to Spain to Conceal Chilean Government’s Human Rights Violation The Real News Network December 13,...
WBAI News Interviews Anne Petermann
WBAI News with Paul DeRienzo Interviews Anne Petermann December 12, 2019...
COP25: Perpetuating Impunity for Human Rights Violations
Santiago, Chile. On International Human Rights Day: tear gas canister flies through the air. A canister like this...
KPFK Interviews Alejandra Parra on Chile Protests & Global Environmental Justice
The climate bloc began at the metro stop La Moneda in front of the Central Unitaria de Trabajadores. Photo: Orin...
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