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Some Unintentional Humor from the Biotech Industry

by: Jill Richardson

Mon May 18, 2009 at 11:47:07 AM PDT


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Check out this email I got today from BIO, the biotech lobby group. They weren't trying to be funny.

Sustainability is more than just a buzzword; it is increasingly the benchmark by which consumers, investors and governments evaluate products and technologies. The challenges of population growth and global climate change will require sustainable and creative solutions to meet increasing demands for food and fuel.

Today, BIO has assembled top executives from British Petroleum, Coco-Cola, DuPont, McKinsey & Company and Burrill & Company, government and policy leaders from the Center for Environmental Leadership in Business and National Corn Growers Association, and Andrew Young Jr., Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations to examine the question of future sustainability.

I've replied to the email asking for more information, since I can't make it to Atlanta for the event. But I am dying to hear what Coca-Cola and DuPont have to contribute to sustainability.

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I'm telling you... (4.00 / 4)
It's gonna be Lo(cal)Coke!  Only half-joking...

If you're interested, you can follow the goings-on at the World Ag Forum in St. Louis (between today & Wednesday) here.  They're doing a good job keeping posts coming up...

A "Medal of Excellence" was presented "to someone who has demonstrated serious leadership in the agriculture industry".  The guy this year?  A former EU Commissioner who argues that NAIS is absolutely necessary, apparently by adding 2 plus 2 and coming up with 17...

Coming soon to a Philadelphia near you!


They won't be happy (4.00 / 3)
until the air we breath is charged by the lungful.


Yankee Frugality: use it up, wear it out, make it last, or do without.

[ Parent ]
problem with some of this biotech stuff (4.00 / 2)
is that it kinda sustains itself a little too much...

"If God were to appear to starving people, he would not dare to appear in any other form than food." - Mahatma Gandhi

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