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Kickstarter, biología sintética y biohackers

Enviado por Veronica Villa el

Por Jim Thomas

Es posible que usted haya oído hablar de Kickstarter, un sitio web muy apreciado por artistas, diseñadores, cineastas y otros, que aprovechan la financiación que consiguen a través de esta plataforma. Pero Kickstarter ha asumido otro nuevo papel, bastante desagradable: una vía para la experimentación de las empresas de biotecnología, que buscan nuevas formas de evadir normas y regulaciones.

Kickstopper! Frenar la contaminación biológica

Un golpe muy bajo a la biodiversidad

A fines de abril de 2013, el Grupo ETC se enteró que tres biohackers de la muy libertaria Singularity University en California iniciaron un proyecto en la popular plataforma de financiamiento llamada Kickstarter. Es un plan para lograr la primera liberación al ambiente de un organismo producido en laboratorio mediante biología sintética -una planta arabidopsis fosforescente. El proyecto en Kickstarter prometió enviar a vuelta de correo más de 100 semillas a cualquiera en Estados Unidos que les donara $ 40 dólares en línea. A la fecha, más de 4 mil personas esperan recibir las semillas alteradas en laboratorio. Serían el primer resultado de la biología sintética que se libera al ambiente.
El Grupo ETC está organizando una contra-campaña para frenar este desastre biológico.

Response from 'Glowing Plants' project

Enviado por Anonymous el

Email sent by Antony Evans

 

From: Antony Evans 

Date: May 7, 2013 1:34:33 PM EDT

 

Subject: Re: Request to Cancel the Kickstarter Synthetic Biology ‘Glowing Plants’ project.

Dear Jim Thomas and Eric Hoffman,

Thank you for your interest in our project and taking the time to write to us with your concerns. Please allow me to clarify and expand upon a few key points. 

Kickstopper letter to 'Glowing Plants' project

Enviado por Jim Thomas el

ETC Group and Friends of The Earth request a halt to Synthetic Biology project.

 

2 May 2013 Dear Antony Evans,

Request to Cancel the Kickstarter Synthetic Biology ʻGlowing Plantsʼ project.

We are writing to express our concern, in the strongest possible terms, about the project you have listed on Kickstarter, which, as currently advertised, will likely result in widespread, random and uncontrolled release of bioengineered seeds and plants produced with synthetic biology techniques. We respectfully request that this project, which poses real world risks to the environment, be abandoned as currently described.

Kickstopper Letter to Kickstarter

Enviado por Jim Thomas el

ETC and Friends of the Earth request Kickstarter Inc to Cancel the 'Glowing Plants' Project

 

Kickstarter Inc

155 Rivington St.

Second Floor

New York, NY 10002

United States 

30th April 2013

 

Dear Perry Chen, Charles Adler and Yancey Strickler:

Request for Kickstarter to cancel the Synthetic Biology ‘Glowing Plant: Natural Lighting with No Electricity’ project

Kickstopper! Putting a Stop to Synthetic Biology Pollution

A real kicker for biodiversity.

At the end of April 2013, ETC Group learned that three biohackers from Singularity University in California had mounted a project on the popular crowdfunding site Kickstarter. It was a plan to carry out the worlds first environmental release of an avowedly Synthetic Biology organism - a glow-in-the dark arabidopsis plant. Shockingly the 'Glowing Plants' kickstarter project promised to mail up to 100 bioengineered seeds to anyone from the United States who gave them $40 online . To date over 4000 people expect to receive syn bio seeds in the post. Even more shockingly they claim that the US Government had agreed not to regulate, assess or monitor this widespread random and nation-wide release of synthetic organisms.
ETC Group is now mounting a counter-kickstarter campaign: - the Kickstopper! Read how you can be part of it.

Interview with Pat Mooney on All Together Now on geoengineering and synthetic biology

Geoengineering and Synthetic Biology

Charlene Spretnak, host of All Together Now, talks with Pat Mooney, Executive Director of ETC Group, in Ottawa, about the push by many governments for “techno fixes” (instead of burning far less fossil fuel), such as “solar radiation management,” GHG sequestration, and weather modification — and the corporate push for various types of synthetic biology.

 

Using Conservation for Synthetic Biology.

Enviado por Jim Thomas el

Using Conservation for Synthetic Biology.
Inglés

Frankly it was all a set up. In the delightfully romantic setting of an old Cambridge college in springtime, complete with free drinks and delicious food, the organizers of last weeks 'Future of Nature' Conference smiled on conspiratorially as their contrivances to introduce two awkward strangers played out over 3 days.

The strangers in this case were not so much boy-meets-girl as naturalist-meets-geek and what they purportedly had in common was biology. The Future of Nature had been billed as an encounter between the synthetic biology community (biotech scientists practicing an extreme form of genetic engineering that builds artificial organisms) and the conservation biology community who are still trying to hold back the frontier of wildlife destruction for non-engineered nature.

Maíz transgénico de Sudáfrica: imposición en México y Zimbawe

Enviado por ETC Staff el

BOLETÍN DE PRENSA

Grupo ETC, Centro Africano para la Bioseguridad,

FoodMattersZimbabwe y CTDT

Johannesburgo, Harare y Ciudad de México 15 de abril de 2013

Nuevas importaciones de maíz transgénico de Sudáfrica a México

Cargamentos no autorizados hacia Zimbawe

En peligro el centro de origen y las formas de vida campesinas del maíz en Mesoamérica y en África

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