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| One way or another, seeds have fed humans for centuries. But their future, and ours, is threatened by the combination of genetic engineering and global warming. {mp3remote}http://media.krcb.org/audio/nbr/12-23-08.mp3{/mp3remote}
Click here to read an excerpt from Uncertain Peril.
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Claire Hope Cummings, the author of Uncertain Peril, is a Napa County based writer, journalist and environmental attorney.
| If all of humankind were to vanish from the planet overnight, the effects of our presence would linger on for centuries, and in some cases, millennia. {mp3remote}http://media.krcb.org/audio/nbr/12-22-08.mp3{/mp3remote}
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| Author Alan Weisman. Read his full bio here. |
If humankind were to vanish from the Earth, which of our artifacts would be the first to follow us, and what would endure the longest? Find out here .
| Democrats in the California state legislature have pushed through an $18 billion budget package aimed at slowing the state's growing deficit. But its not clear that the bills will become law--or that they were legally adopted. {mp3remote}http://media.krcb.org/audio/nbr/12-19-08.mp3{/mp3remote}} | |
Noreen Evans (D-Santa Rosa) chairs the Assembly Budget Committee, and believes the budget actions taken Thursday were at least technically legal. But because they employed a never-before-used strategem, that's open to debate. Sacramento Bee political columnist Dan Walters explains the issues here .
| If you can define gelato, you're ahead of the state of California. {mp3remote}http://media.krcb.org/audio/nbr/12-18-08.mp3{/mp3remote} | |
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Most food products in California have detailed legal definitions. Chris Tan, founder and co-owner of Gelateria Naia in Hercules, says ice cream is a good example of that, and a good model for the standards he has proposed for gelato. {mp3remote}http://media.krcb.org/audio/nbr/definitions.mp3{/mp3remote} |
Tan considers his company to be part of the Slow Food movement--it takes about 16 hours to make a batch of gelato--and he hopes the definition he has proposed will reinforce California's position as a leader in adopting healthy food standards.
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There's a high cost involved in the commercialization of drinking water, especially in under-developed countries.
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Irena Salina is the director of FLOW (For Love Of Water), which was produced by Steven Starr. 
Six years in the making, FLOW debuted at the prestigious Sundance Festival almost a year ago, but Starr notes that it was still timely then and remains so now.
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Watch the trailer for FLOW here:
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You can also add your name to the petition to add access to fresh water as Article 31 of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Companies that sell bottled water in this country are now looking to make expanded use of agricultural water rights, Starr says, an approach that may require redefining the scale of those rights.
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Building on the information contained in the film, Starr has begun a web-based networking site called FreeFlo to enable water rights activists to share ideas and information collaboratively.
freeflo.org
Mission Statement
FreeFlo is a communication network designed to strengthen the global water activist community, to challenge the privatization of water, to promote solidarity and water justice for all. FreeFlo illuminates issues impacting water ecosystems and individual access to water, and supports local, community-controlled solutions for sustainable water use. Find out more about FreeFlo here.
