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Most Recent 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, 2023, Article, As Forests React to Climate Change, Can Genetically Modified Trees Stand in the Gap? first appeared on the Sustainable Brands website. The article discusses biotech startup Living Carbon, which has developed a GE hybrid poplar tree. The company claims the trees have...
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 solution combined with a techno-fix on top of another false solution Chris Lang's March 18, 2023 article in REDD-Monitor is a great overview of how Living Carbon is selling carbon offsets with no peer-reviewed science to back its claims. Excerpts from the article can be...
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 March 2017, Global Justice Ecology Project, OLCA-Chile and member groups from the Campaign to STOP GE Trees toured the Bio Bio and Araucanía regions of Chile to investigate the social and ecological impacts of industrial tree plantations in the region. These impacts included the...
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 appeared in the Spring 2023 edition of Heartwood community's biannual newsletter Heartbeat. By Anne Petermann and Steve Taylor MAINE – On his land in western Maine, naturalist Bernd Heinrich is surrounded by American chestnut trees and seedlings. More than 1,300 of them grow on his...
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: On Monday February 13, 2023, nearly 5,000 GE trees were planted in a U.S. Forest. The modified poplars, planted in Georgia on private land, were produced by Living Carbon. The San Francisco-based biotechnology company claims the trees are fast growing. This claim is uncertain, as...
Press Coverage
REDD-Monitor Runs Press Release From the Opening of COP25
REDD in the news: 2-8 December 2019 REDD December 9, 2019 REDD-Monitor’s round-up of the week’s news on forests, the...
KPFK 2nd Interview with Anne Petermann On Chile Uprising
At the Cumbre de los Pueblos. Photo: Petermann/GJEP Anne Petermann reported live on Sojourner Truth on December 3,...
Release: Experts Discuss Dangers of GE Chestnut
"Experts Discuss Dangers of Genetically Engineered American Chestnut Release" For Immediate...
Telesur: Con numerosa participación inicia en Chile la Cumbre de los Pueblos
Con numerosa participación inicia en Chile la Cumbre de los Pueblos Telesur, Martes 3 de diciembre de 2019 Cifras...
Common Dreams: Green Groups at COP 25 Warn Against Market-Driven Solutions to Climate Emergency
Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams December 2, 2019 As the United Nations climate summit COP 25 kicked off in Madrid,...
Common Dreams Runs Press Release on COP25
Photo: Orin Langelle/GJEP As UN Climate COP launches in Madrid Activists in Chile Demand Rejection of Neoliberal Model...
Anne Petermann On Chile Protests, Mapuche Resistance & The Environment
During the March Against Violence Against Women in Santiago, Nov 25, 2019. Banner reads: "They declare war on us;...
GJEP on Redacted Tonight: Lee Camp Interviews ED Anne Petermann about radical solutions to climate change
Watch this interview with GJEP Exec Director Anne Petermann on Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp on RT She addresses the...
KPFK Special One-Hour Show on Forest & Climate Crisis and Upcoming Convergence
This one-hour special aired Wednesday 25 September on the nationally syndicated Sojourner Truth show on Pacifica's...
Interview with Exec Dir. Anne Petermann on Climate Change, Deforestation and the Need to Rise Up
This interview took place earlier this month with Eleanor Goldfield for her Act Out program on Free Speech TV. The...
Counterpunch Runs Article on GE American Chestnut as Trojan Horse
The GE American Chestnut: Restoration of a Beloved Species or Trojan Horse for Tree Biotechnology? Counterpunch, 14...
NEW: Risks of GE American Chestnut in Independent Science News
The GE American Chestnut – Restoration of a Beloved Species or Trojan Horse for Tree Biotechnology? Independent...
GE American chestnut: Potential Impacts on Indigenous Peoples
Note: The assertion that the American chestnut could be restored using GE technologies is not at all certain. Tests...
Dr. Rachel Smolker debates risks of deregulating GE American chestnut trees on NPR-On Point
How GMOs Might Save The American Chestnut Tree This program aired 29 April 2019 and was hosted Meghna Chakrabarti. The...
Earth Minute Radio: Chestnut Champions Resign Over GE Trees
Earth Minute 4/17/19, Sojourner Truth show, KPFK Pacifica Radio, Los Angeles Anne Petermann discusses the choice of...
GE Tree Controversy in American Chestnut Foundation Leads to Resignations
Chestnut champions quit to protest genetic engineering By Elaine Thompson Worcester Telegram & Gazette 28 March...
Orin Langelle WDBX Interview on Photojournalism and Activism
GJEP co-Founder Orin Langelle was interviewed on the "Greenhouse Rebellion" program on WDBX community radio prior to a...
GJEP’s Orin Langelle on the Front Page of Southern Illinois’ Largest Newspaper
Two activists bury themselves up to their necks to block a logging road near the Fairview timber sale area of the...
LISTEN: Anne Petermann on False Climate Solutions on ‘Ear to the Pavement’ Podcast
Of all of the things there are to worry about in the Trump era, climate change is at the top of the list. But the...
GJEP Op-Ed in The Hill: Forests In Crisis but Biotechnology Not the Solution
Global Justice Ecology Project's Anne Petermann, Rachel Smolker and Ruddy Turnstone (as Rachel Kijewski) authored an...
Washington Post: 250,000 Tell USDA to Reject Genetically Engineered Eucalyptus Trees
While the public anxiously awaits the USDA's final decision regarding the approval of the commercial release of...
Fight Against GE Eucalyptus in US Gets Major Media Coverage
Major news outlets are reporting on the news that over 250,000 signatures have been collected telling the USDA to not...
New Mint Press article covers criticisms about US GE loblolly pine approval
16 February 2015 - Christine Graef of Mint Press published an article Monday titled "USDA Moving Toward Less...
MintPress covers GE Trees
December 6, 2014 Christine Graef's article for MintPress News brings to light numerous concerns that are raised by the...
Most Recent 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, 2023, Article, As Forests React to Climate Change, Can Genetically Modified Trees Stand in the Gap? first appeared on the Sustainable Brands website. The article discusses biotech startup Living Carbon, which has developed a GE hybrid poplar tree. The company claims the trees have...
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 solution combined with a techno-fix on top of another false solution Chris Lang's March 18, 2023 article in REDD-Monitor is a great overview of how Living Carbon is selling carbon offsets with no peer-reviewed science to back its claims. Excerpts from the article can be...
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 March 2017, Global Justice Ecology Project, OLCA-Chile and member groups from the Campaign to STOP GE Trees toured the Bio Bio and Araucanía regions of Chile to investigate the social and ecological impacts of industrial tree plantations in the region. These impacts included the...
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 appeared in the Spring 2023 edition of Heartwood community's biannual newsletter Heartbeat. By Anne Petermann and Steve Taylor MAINE – On his land in western Maine, naturalist Bernd Heinrich is surrounded by American chestnut trees and seedlings. More than 1,300 of them grow on his...
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: On Monday February 13, 2023, nearly 5,000 GE trees were planted in a U.S. Forest. The modified poplars, planted in Georgia on private land, were produced by Living Carbon. The San Francisco-based biotechnology company claims the trees are fast growing. This claim is uncertain, as...
Press Coverage
REDD-Monitor Runs Press Release From the Opening of COP25
REDD in the news: 2-8 December 2019 REDD December 9, 2019 REDD-Monitor’s round-up of the week’s news on forests, the...
KPFK 2nd Interview with Anne Petermann On Chile Uprising
At the Cumbre de los Pueblos. Photo: Petermann/GJEP Anne Petermann reported live on Sojourner Truth on December 3,...
Release: Experts Discuss Dangers of GE Chestnut
"Experts Discuss Dangers of Genetically Engineered American Chestnut Release" For Immediate...
Telesur: Con numerosa participación inicia en Chile la Cumbre de los Pueblos
Con numerosa participación inicia en Chile la Cumbre de los Pueblos Telesur, Martes 3 de diciembre de 2019 Cifras...
Common Dreams: Green Groups at COP 25 Warn Against Market-Driven Solutions to Climate Emergency
Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams December 2, 2019 As the United Nations climate summit COP 25 kicked off in Madrid,...
Common Dreams Runs Press Release on COP25
Photo: Orin Langelle/GJEP As UN Climate COP launches in Madrid Activists in Chile Demand Rejection of Neoliberal Model...
Anne Petermann On Chile Protests, Mapuche Resistance & The Environment
During the March Against Violence Against Women in Santiago, Nov 25, 2019. Banner reads: "They declare war on us;...
GJEP on Redacted Tonight: Lee Camp Interviews ED Anne Petermann about radical solutions to climate change
Watch this interview with GJEP Exec Director Anne Petermann on Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp on RT She addresses the...
KPFK Special One-Hour Show on Forest & Climate Crisis and Upcoming Convergence
This one-hour special aired Wednesday 25 September on the nationally syndicated Sojourner Truth show on Pacifica's...
Interview with Exec Dir. Anne Petermann on Climate Change, Deforestation and the Need to Rise Up
This interview took place earlier this month with Eleanor Goldfield for her Act Out program on Free Speech TV. The...
Counterpunch Runs Article on GE American Chestnut as Trojan Horse
The GE American Chestnut: Restoration of a Beloved Species or Trojan Horse for Tree Biotechnology? Counterpunch, 14...
NEW: Risks of GE American Chestnut in Independent Science News
The GE American Chestnut – Restoration of a Beloved Species or Trojan Horse for Tree Biotechnology? Independent...
GE American chestnut: Potential Impacts on Indigenous Peoples
Note: The assertion that the American chestnut could be restored using GE technologies is not at all certain. Tests...
Dr. Rachel Smolker debates risks of deregulating GE American chestnut trees on NPR-On Point
How GMOs Might Save The American Chestnut Tree This program aired 29 April 2019 and was hosted Meghna Chakrabarti. The...
Earth Minute Radio: Chestnut Champions Resign Over GE Trees
Earth Minute 4/17/19, Sojourner Truth show, KPFK Pacifica Radio, Los Angeles Anne Petermann discusses the choice of...
GE Tree Controversy in American Chestnut Foundation Leads to Resignations
Chestnut champions quit to protest genetic engineering By Elaine Thompson Worcester Telegram & Gazette 28 March...
Orin Langelle WDBX Interview on Photojournalism and Activism
GJEP co-Founder Orin Langelle was interviewed on the "Greenhouse Rebellion" program on WDBX community radio prior to a...
GJEP’s Orin Langelle on the Front Page of Southern Illinois’ Largest Newspaper
Two activists bury themselves up to their necks to block a logging road near the Fairview timber sale area of the...
LISTEN: Anne Petermann on False Climate Solutions on ‘Ear to the Pavement’ Podcast
Of all of the things there are to worry about in the Trump era, climate change is at the top of the list. But the...
GJEP Op-Ed in The Hill: Forests In Crisis but Biotechnology Not the Solution
Global Justice Ecology Project's Anne Petermann, Rachel Smolker and Ruddy Turnstone (as Rachel Kijewski) authored an...
Washington Post: 250,000 Tell USDA to Reject Genetically Engineered Eucalyptus Trees
While the public anxiously awaits the USDA's final decision regarding the approval of the commercial release of...
Fight Against GE Eucalyptus in US Gets Major Media Coverage
Major news outlets are reporting on the news that over 250,000 signatures have been collected telling the USDA to not...
New Mint Press article covers criticisms about US GE loblolly pine approval
16 February 2015 - Christine Graef of Mint Press published an article Monday titled "USDA Moving Toward Less...
MintPress covers GE Trees
December 6, 2014 Christine Graef's article for MintPress News brings to light numerous concerns that are raised by the...
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