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Nobody knows what the future would be, including you. You can guess, you can imagine, you can predict, but you cannot tell the exact future of your life, the people around you, and this world. But if you are observer enough, you will see that the future of your world actually depends on your hand. Nowadays, more and more people damage the nature without they realize. How can you have a better and brighter future, if the people continue to damage the nature?

The damage can be clearly seen from the weather and the temperature of the world. Mostly it happens because of the pollution as well as the carbon emission that comes from the appliances that you use every day. However, you can reduce and stop this situation from happening if you know the right method to perform. The Energy Efficiency device can be a perfect choice because it helps you to control and manage the energy consumption daily.

By performing and installing this device to your home, you will obtain three different benefits. First you will save the environment around you and your house. Second you will save your pocket because you do not have to pay a huge number of bills. And third you will improve your home because the device will make your home to have a good and efficient appliance.

Pagesa Assembly of Catalonia, Greenpeace and Platform Transgenics Fora! presented in Barcelona today, coinciding with the start of the European Commission conference on the future of the “coexistence” between GM and non-transgenic in Vienna (Austria), a detailed study, conducted over the past 10 months on the status of these crops. This document, entitled “The Impossible Coexistence,” is the first report of its kind in Spain which aims to show the public what are the real consequences of GM crops from the case of Catalonia and Aragon, the main producing regions in Spain and the EU (in both communities transgenic corn acres nearly 50% of the total corn crop).

The report concludes that the “coexistence” of GM agriculture to other agriculture is not viable, and is the result of extensive field research conducted in major maize producing regions to which they have collected dozens of testimonies from farmers, farmers and managers of cooperatives and have analyzed hundreds of samples of corn. The situation described in detail pollution cases appeared in 2005, the opacity in the world of research, no or inadequate monitoring and control of crop and food contamination incidents, clerical errors, the cultivation of illegal camps experimental unauthorized absence from public records and pollution along the entire transport chain and marketing.

Aragonés Committee of Ecological Agriculture and the Union of Farmers and Ranchers of Aragon have provided essential data for the report. It describes how the introduction of transgenic agriculture accentuates the division and confrontation between farmers, forcing them to bear the risks and problems, while the companies responsible for the introduction of GMOs wash their hands. The reality is perceived in the field is a strong fear and anxiety. “The consequences of GM contamination are serious and unacceptable, are proof that these are not under control and therefore can not think of a possible coexistence with conventional and organic agriculture,” said Jordi Cipriano Pagesa Assembly of Catalonia . “Economic losses from pollution are borne entirely by the contaminated and no liability is required to own the technology or the Administration, while dynamite the right to choose of farmers and consumers,” says Cipriano .

Precisely this report is published when the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Ministry of Agriculture intends to adopt two decrees of “coexistence” whose political aim is to legalize the widespread genetic contamination. Consequently, the surface of organic corn, the only truly sustainable option to produce corn, is shrinking at an alarming rate. “Meanwhile the Institute of Riserca i Technology (IRTA) devotes a significant portion of its business to experiment with GM in place to encourage research in agroecology” said Joan Garcia of the Platform Transgenics Fora!

“What is really worrying is that this is just the tip of the iceberg, as there is no official record of contamination incidents,” said Juan-Felipe Carrasco, head of Greenpeace GMO campaign, “the majority of incidents contamination is not detected by lack of analysis or kept secret by both companies as well as governments. “

All information contained in the report converges to the unequivocal conclusion that the “coexistence” between GM and non-GM crops is not possible and confirms that:

The control and monitoring of GMOs from the laboratory to the plate are ineffective, and in many cases nonexistent. The system of segregation, traceability and labeling does not work.

There are no separate systems for detecting and investigating cases of contamination, illegal crops, administrative irregularities or adverse effects of GMOs. The vast majority of contamination is not detected before.

The economic costs of pollution and other problems caused by GMOs are high and are borne by those affected. The social, environmental and health are potentially immense.

The tremendous cost that would be a comprehensive analysis and a real tight control by the authorities, makes this type of technology is socially, environmentally and economically viable.

The lack of transparency prevents most of the decisions of the GM or the scandals they are perceived by society. This, however, is constantly subjected to propaganda for an industry that provides objective information and contrasted with the sole purpose of increasing its control over agriculture and food sectors.

The biotech industry is able to influence at many levels, political power, making its interests prevail over those of the environment or society.

States are unable to prevent the illegal sale and cultivation, and to prevent non-compliance in the cultivation of GMOs.

Therefore, the undersigned organizations demand that:

Immediately suspend any authorization of GM crops in Spain, considering that there is no legal and technical framework to grow them in a position to control and safety. This must be revoked authorizations for all varieties of different governments have adopted to date and experimental crops prohibited.

Suspension of any attempt to pass decrees or an order of “coexistence” based on contamination and lack of accountability, both by the Department of Livestock and, Agriculture and Fisheries (DARP) and the Ministry of Agriculture.
Authorities to undertake a reassessment of the Spanish agricultural policy in the sense of guaranteeing the existence of an absolutely free of GM production, thus ensuring freedom of choice of consumers and farmers over the interests of the biotech industry and the multinational owners of these technologies. To this must seriously consider the possibility of GM-free zones in Catalonia, Aragon and the rest of the state.

You create a commission to study vigorously and independently and transparently analyze environmental damage, social or health of GM, and demand that sanctions be applied to their cause. The transgenic production companies that own the patents should be found guilty of pollution and cause damages.

That living things have a subtle and complex electromagnetic field mobile Orientals called aura and is now known as the energy field is beyond doubt for any scientist-informed. Well, the technical GDV (Gas Discharge Visualization) created by professor Korotkov can precisely measure the electromagnetic field and study its influence on health.

This was possible because, based on research from the German Peter Mandel, Korotkov discovered that in the ten fingers holographic information is contained (total) of the body as well as aspects of the human psyche. And not only that: in a very short time managed to create a method of diagnosis of major organs and body systems using the Kirlian images of the finger tips. It turns out that in the auras of the fingers are reflected all the organs of the body!

Korotkov’s team would then special camera and the GDV-referred-to visualize and measure the full aura through Kirlian image capture on a computer. With this instrument, and thanks to its precise scientific process “would begin the systematic study of the energy level of being human. A technique that allows real-time view of the instant reactions of the body to a medical treatment, exercise, stress, meditation and, very importantly, to the psychological attitudes and thoughts! And not only that, lets see how the aura of a person reflects his mood. Read the rest of this entry »

Whether a new type of solar panel or a biochemical process that turns algae into fuels, advances in renewable energy is often represented as a triumph of technology and innovation.

But when it comes to constructing large scale renewable energy project, the most important ingredient is a very attractive service that has existed in the world for centuries. These are loans or bonds with long maturities, ie that can be paid in five years or more, and are a crucial component in ensuring the success of start-up companies and infrastructure projects in general . Read the rest of this entry »

The availability of energy from renewable energy sources is higher than conventional energy sources, but its use is restricted. Technological developments, the increase of social demand and lower installation cost and rapid depreciation, which encourages the use of a source of renewable energy sources in recent years.

Similarly, the challenges to sustainable development model and the change towards a sustainable development model implies a new conception of the production, transportation and energy consumption.

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