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GE Crop Thriller Leaves Bond and Bourne for Dust

Andrew Gunther | Posted 05.15.2013 | Green
Read More: Food & Water Watch, Sustainable Food, Agriculture, Genetically Engineered Foods, Sustainable Agriculture, Biotech, Bayer CropScience, Genetically Modified Foods, Monsanto, Dupont, Syngenta, Green News
Andrew Gunther

Mounting calls in the U.S. for the labeling of GE foods also represents a huge problem for the likes of Monsanto: What will happen to demand for GE seeds once consumers actually have a real choice over whether or not they consume GE food?

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Christina Wilkie

Pesticide Lobby Spends Millions To Defend Chemicals Tied To Bee Deaths

HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 03.29.2013 | Politics
Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Pollen, Video, Bayer, Bees, Lobbying, Crop-Duster, Beehive, Pesiticides, Honeybees, Dupont, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The chemical pesticide lobby is waging a multi-million dollar battle to prevent regulation of chemicals linked to the dramatic escalatio...

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Monsant-Oh No!

Alex Palombo | Posted 03.28.2013 | Politics
Read More: Elizabeth Warren, Dupont, Monsanto Protection Act, Monsanto, Consumer Protection, Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, Cfpb, Politics News
Alex Palombo

The Monsanto Protection Act is a continuation on the trend of corporations getting away with shafting their customers out of millions, leaving consumers worse for the wear and letting corporations off scot-free.

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The Importance of Basic Research

Karen Kashmanian Oates, Ph.D. | Posted 05.07.2013 | Science
Read More: Steve Jobs, Teflon, Michael Jordan, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Mick Jagger, Cern, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Mark Zuckerberg, Mary-Claire King, Weizmann Institute of Science, Dupont, The Bell Labs, Science News
Karen Kashmanian Oates, Ph.D.

The rock star status of today's scientific celebrities encourages aspiring scientists to focus on the retail possibilities that can result in fast fame and wealth. While understandable, this unwittingly neglects a crucial part of the scientific equation.

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Top 10 Sustainable Business Stories of 2012

Andrew Winston | Posted 02.22.2013 | Green
Read More: Nrdc, Emc, Mit, Big Data, Green Business, China, US Drought 2012, Staples, Apple, Nike, Hybrid Cars, Saudi Arabia, Jeremy Grantham, Bill Mckibben, Bcg, Solar Power, Global Warming, Clean Economy, Fuel Economy Standards, Microsoft, Unilever, Biofuels, Corporate Sustainability, Mayor Bloomberg, Collaborative Consumption, Marks and Spencer, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Zero Waste, Clean Air Act, Transparency, Mckinsey, Natural Capital, Universal Pictures, Carbon Tax, Al Halvorsen, Foxconn, Heineken, Ups, Solyndra, Walmart, John Elkington, Do the Math, Pwc, H&M, Kimberly-Clark, President Obama, Patagonia, Green Supply Chain, Cop18, Greenbiz, Hertz, Dupont, Coca-Cola, Hurricane Sandy, Crayola, Climate Change, Dunkin' Donuts, Flyknit, Tazreen Fashions Fire, Gm, B&Q, Carbon Disclosure Project, Tyson Foods, Open Innovation, Carbon Footprint, Energy Efficiency, Mississippi River, Tesla Model S, Columbia University, Lca, Pepsico, Sasb, Gisr, Green News
Andrew Winston

We may not be keeping pace with these pressures, but leading companies continue to evolve more sustainable strategies and tactics. Let's look at some top macro- and company-level stories.

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It's Time We Occupied Well Street: The Incomprehensible Defeat of Prop. 37

David Fagin | Posted 02.11.2013 | Home
Read More: Pesticides, Gmos, Organic Food, Prop 37, GMO Labeling, Gmo, Barack Obama, Monsanto, Dupont, Home News
David Fagin

As someone who supports the objective of Prop. 37, and any legislation/ideology that will force the bio-tech industry to come clean and tell us what, ...

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10 Companies That Are Hiring Veterans

The Huffington Post | Alexis Kleinman | Posted 11.11.2012 | Business
Read More: Companies Hiring Veterans, Veterans Day, PG&E, Jobs, Hiring, Businesses Hire Veterans, Dupont, Veterans, Video, Business News

After coming home from war many veterans still face the challenge of unemployment. In 2011, 12.1 percent of recently active U.S. military veterans...

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What Will You Do for the Revolution? Prop 37, D-Day for the Food Movement

Dave Murphy | Posted 12.15.2012 | Home
Read More: Rachel Carson, Yes on Prop 37, Prop 37, Gilles-Eric Seralini, GMO Labeling, Wes Jackson, Monsanto, Epa, Usda, Monsanto Genetically Modified Seeds, Wendell Berry, Fda, Monsanto Corn Study France, Monsanto Corn, Silent Spring, California Right to Know Campaign, Yes on 37, Dupont, Home News
Dave Murphy

For the food movement, for the future of our planet and our democracy, there is no more important battle than to reclaim our rights from out of control corporations and the failure of government oversight.

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A Robber Baron for President?

Carl Pope | Posted 11.07.2012 | Green
Read More: Robber Barons, Mitt Romney, Democratic Convention, Koch Industries, Dupont, Bain Capital, GST Steel, Green News
Carl Pope

If Romney is elected, Koch's profits, not America's welfare, will lead the White House must do list.

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Controversial Company Wins Huge Payout From Rival

AP | Posted 10.01.2012 | Business
Read More: Video, Patent Infringement, Monsanto Lawsuit, Business News, Monsanto Dupont Trial, Ap, Dupont, Monsanto Dupont, Monsanto, Business News

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A jury on Tuesday awarded Monsanto $1 billion in a patent-infringement trial against rival DuPont. The trial in U.S....

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The Romney Attack: Socialize The Losses, Privatize The Gains

Bloomberg View | Anthony Luzzatto Gardner | Posted 07.16.2012 | Business
Read More: Mitt Romney, Goldman Sachs, Accuride Corp., 2012 Elections, American Pad & Paper, Job Creation, Bain Capital, Dupont, Behring Diagnostics, Business News

Bloomberg View: Mitt Romney touts his business acumen and job-creation record as a key qualification for being the next U.S. president. What’s...

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To Fight Hunger, Inspire Youth

Paul Schickler | Posted 07.17.2012 | Impact
Read More: White House, G8, Global Hunger, Global Food Security, World Hunger, Farmers, Agriculture, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Dupont, Young Leaders, Barack Obama, Food Security, Impact News
Paul Schickler

There will be a significant audience missing from the G8 Summit symposium on food insecurity -- the people who are going to be responsible for feeding those additional two billion in 2050.

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WATCH: Metro Removes Dupont Circle Escalators

The Huffington Post | Posted 03.22.2012 | DC
Read More: Dc Metro, Red Line, South Dupont Metro, Metrorail, Escalator Removal, Video, District of Columbia, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, Escalators, D.C., Dupont Escalator Removal, Dupont, Metro, DC News

WASHINGTON -- Although the south entrance to the Red Line's Dupont Circle station remains closed, Metro officials are keeping would-be passengers upda...

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Alexander Eichler

General Electric Paid A Tiny, Tiny Tax Rate This Decade

HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 03.18.2013 | Business
Read More: Boeing, General Electric, Video, Verizon, General Electric Lobbyists, General Electric Taxes, Corporate Tax Rate, Wells Fargo, Lobbyists, GE Taxes, Corporate Tax Breaks, Corporate Tax Loopholes, Corporate Taxes, Dupont, Barack Obama, Ge, Business News

General Electric again finds itself the focus of a politically-charged battle over corporate taxes. A new analysis of the mega-corporation's tax f...

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2012 duPont Award Winners Announced

Posted 12.21.2011 | Media
Read More: Columbia School of Journalism, Video, Columbia University, Dupont Awards 2012, Dupont Silver Baton, Dupont Awards Columbia, Silver Baton, duPont Awards, Dupont, Media News

Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism announced the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award winners for 2012 on Wednesday. The duPont Awards...

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Tyvek:Design Material?

Joel Edmondson | Posted 10.26.2011 | Arts
Read More: Dupont, Tyvek, Artecnica, Karl Zahn, Environment Furniture, Heath Nash, Eco-Friendly, Jean-Marie Massaud, Modernmaine, Furniture, Design, Ligthing, Arts News
Joel Edmondson

The discovery of Tyvek® was a chance occurrence, when in 1955 a researcher noticed white polyethylene fluff coming out of a pipe in a DuPont experime...

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10 Companies That Radically Transformed Their Businesses

TIME.com | JOSH SANBURN | Posted 08.16.2011 | Business
Read More: Business Transformations, Nokia, Xerox, Apple, Ibm Radical Transformation, Fortune, Corning, Dupont, Monsanto, Ge, Business News

IBM turned 100 today, the rare company to thrive a century after it was founded. But in the 1980s and 1990s, many people had written the company off. ...

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Koch Industries' Deep Web Of Influence

The Center for Public Integrity | John Aloysius Farrell | Posted 06.06.2011 | Business
Read More: David Koch, Environmental Protection Agency, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Brothers, Dodd-Frank, Charles Koch, Epa, Koch Nitrogen, Invista, Koch Industries, Koch Carbon, Ethanol, Dupont, Georgia Pacific, Bush Tax Cuts, Video, Business News

By John Aloysius Farrell The Center For Public Integrity At an EPA hearing last summer, representatives from Koch Industries argued that moderate ...

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A Dubious Alliance Of Food Giants

Slashfood | Nanette Maxim, Posted Mar 18th 2011 @ 3:00PM | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Snack Food Association, Gmos, Council for Biotechnology Information, Basf, Big Ag, American National Standards Institute, CropLife America, Dupont, Alliance to Feed the Future, Home News

We guess alliances like the Snack Food Association and the Council for Biotechnology Information (whose megacompany members include BASF, DuPont, Dow,...

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The New Reality -- How The Davos Man Is Being Dragged Into The 21st Century

Dr. Sasha Galbraith | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Executive Women, Davos 2011, Kraft, Pepsi, Dupont, World Economic Forum, The Guardian, Wef, Zoe Williams, Business News
Dr. Sasha Galbraith

The World Economic Forum kicked off this week. And this year, the press is enamored with the new quota system.

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Chemical Company To Pay Town $70 Million For Pollution

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Dupont, Dupont West Virginia, Spelter West Virginia, Environment, Dupont Spelter, Dupont Settlement, Dupont Lawsuit, Green News

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Chemical maker DuPont Co. will pay $70 million and fund long-term medical monitoring for residents of a West Virginia town w...

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Nation's Biggest Polluters Freed From Environmental Oversight By Stimulus

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Didion Milling, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Bp, Westar Energy, Nepa, NEPA Exemptions, Environmental Stimulus, Polluters Oversight, Polluters Stimulus, Polluters Regulation, Dupont, Green News

In the name of job creation and clean energy, the Obama administration has doled out billions of dollars in stimulus money to some of the nation's big...

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Where the Action Is: Consumer Spending

Blythe McGarvie | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Silly Bandz, Innovation, Direct Investment, Unemployment, Wealth, Exports, New Companies, Gdp, Action, Brazil, Savings, Consumer Spending, Dupont, Emerging Markets, Global Companies, Business News
Blythe McGarvie

While professors research and consult, business men and women create and grow businesses. We all succeed by going where the action is. Let's look at where the action is for consumer spending.

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All Eyes On Iowa: An Interview With Democratic Challenger for Secretary of Agriculture, Candidate Francis Thicke

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Secretary of Agriculture, Sustainable Living, Francis Thicke, Michael Pollan, Dupont, Monsanto, Democratic Party, Biofuels, Beth Dalbey, Syngenta, Candidate, Big Agriculture, Jack DeCoster, Politics News
Mike Ragogna

One of the most important races that you haven't heard about yet in this election cycle is currently unfolding in America's Heartland. Thicke is turning heads, shining a light on current unsustainable food-production practices and oversight.

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12 Famous Companies' Surprising Beginnings

Wallet Pop | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Ferrari, Nintendo, Nokia, Company Origins, Hasbro, Tiffany, Dupont, Sony, Corning, Famous Companies, John Deere, Gucci, Abercrombie & Fitch, Ibm, Business News

Quick, when you think of Nokia, what immediately comes to mind? Cell phones, right? Most of us would be surprised to know that Nokia didn't start out ...

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