Environmentalism

Environmentalists assess genetic modification of crops, livestock, and potentially human beings with close attention to their effects on ecosystems and societies. They advocate for caution and responsible social governance in the face of high-risk technological innovation, including by regulating markets and corporations in order to ensure public health and well-being. Environmentalists pioneered the precautionary principle, an approach that assigns responsibility for demonstrating the safety of risky new technologies to those who would benefit from them, rather than those likely to be harmed. These tools of technical, policy, and social analysis hold important insights for understanding and evaluating human biotechnologies.

Liberal, progressive — and racist? The Sierra Club faces its white-supremacist history.

By Darryl Fears and Steven Mufson, The Washington Post | 07.22.2020

Aggregated News

No one is more important to the history of environmental conservation than John Muir — the “wilderness prophet,” “patron saint of the American wilderness” and “father of the national parks” who founded the nation’s oldest conservation organization, the Sierra Club...

Media Coverage

A Cloned Ferret!

By Pete Shanks | 02.24.2021

Biopolitical Times

"Black-footed Ferret Kits" by USFWS Mountain Prairie is licensed under CC BY 2.0 The New York Times published on February 18 an enthusiastic article about a black-footed ferret, hailing it as “the first of any native, endangered animal species in North America to be cloned.”

Animal Biotechnologies

Climate Crisis, Designer Babies, Our Common Future

By CGS Staff | 11.13.2019

Biopolitical Times

We recently co-hosted a lively and thought-provoking conversation between john a. powell and Bill McKibben about heritable genetic modification, climate change, and how the two issues are connected.

Human Genetic Modification

“Small” changes made with gene editing cause severe deformities in plants

By GMWatch | 04.01.2021

Aggregated News

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Gene editing causes drastic unwanted effects in gene-edited plants including severe deformities, a new...

Genetic Selection

Posthuman Enough?

By Richard B. Norgaard, BioScience | 03.30.2004

CGS-authored

Bioethics

Too Clever Too Fast Too Happy

By Bill McKibben, The Guardian | 05.03.2003

CGS-authored

Bioethics

Designer Genes

By Bill McKibben, Orion | 04.30.2003

CGS-authored

A "Post-Human" Future?

Germline Warfare

By Ralph Brave, The Nation | 04.07.2003

CGS-authored

Human Cloning

Human Cloning and Genetic Technology

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The Heinrich Böll Foundation, the Center for Genetics and Society, and the Worldwatch Institute cordially invite you to a briefing and discussion on

Human Cloning and Genetic Technology: The Global Challenge to Social Justice, Human Rights and the Environment

Date:	Tuesday, February 25, 2003
Time:	4:00pm - 5:30pm (light refreshments afterward!)
Location:	Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Root Room (Second Floor) 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036
Metro:	Dupont Circle (Red Line)

Speakers:

Richard Hayes, Executive Director, Center for Genetics and Society
Jurema Werneck, Executive Director, CRIOLA - Afro-Brazilian Women's Movement
John Passacantando, Executive Director, Greenpeace USA
Gina Maranto, University of Miami, Author of The Quest for Perfection
Brian Halweil, Senior Researcher, Worldwatch Institute

Moderator: Marc Berthold, Program Director, Heinrich Böll Foundation

The new human genetic technologies hold both great promise and great peril. Come hear why liberals, progressives, environmentalists, feminists, human rights advocates, disability rights leaders and others are concerned, and what they believe is the responsible course of action now.

RSVP with name, title, organization, department, phone, fax, and email to Ronny Kittler, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Phone: (202) 462-7512, Fax (202) 462-5230, Email: ronny@boell.org.

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