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A Natural Obsession

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Organic foods are exploding in popularity. But fears of biotechnology—and a widespread mistrust of science—won’t help efforts to create a truly sustainable agriculture.
When delegates from 192 nations arrive in Copenhagen in December for the UN COP15 summit, they will confront a 181-page draft negotiation text, 2,000 bracketed passages still in [...]

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Third time lucky

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Industrial biotech: A “third wave” of biotechnology is arriving. Will it be able to avoid a poor reception from the general public this time around?
FOR a long time the public has perceived biotechnology to mean dangerous meddling with the genes in food crops. But biotechnology is of course about much more [...]

What Do Venture Capitalists Know?

By ron

The National Venture Capital Association surveyed 170 of its members, and this is their collective wisdom for 2008:
The sectors VCs are most bullish about are Clean Tech, Media, Biotech, and the Internet, in that order: