The Institute for Social Ecology's Biotechnology Project is an internationally recognized grassroots initiative for biotechnology activism, committed to expanding public awareness and increasing debate around genetic engineering and other biotechnologies through grassroots education and action, internationally recognized public events, and the development of democratic, community-based activist networks to challenge corporate agribusiness and advocate for ecological and equitable food systems.

Our most recent programs have included: Youth Media for Sustainable Agriculture; support for regional grassroots organizing, including the Vermont GMO Information Network and GE-Free Maine; Stop GE Trees Campaign; response to the 2007 Biotech Industry convention in Boston; and the book Gene Traders: Biotechnology, World Trade and the Globalization of Hunger.

We have also initiated a new Climate Justice project, focused on writing, research and activism on alternatives to mainstream approaches to catastrophic global warming. We are working to expose the myriad false solutions to global warming (biofuels, nuclear power), and articulate transformative, community-centered solutions to address this emerging global crisis.

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