PodSpec » public policy http://podspec.com Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:39:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Messing with our planet http://podspec.com/2010/04/04/messing-with-our-planet/ http://podspec.com/2010/04/04/messing-with-our-planet/#comments Sun, 04 Apr 2010 16:21:40 +0000 cs http://podspec.com/?p=300 IN 1975 scientists expert in a new and potentially world-changing technology, genetic engineering, gathered at Asilomar, on the Monterey peninsula in California, to ponder the ethics and safety of the course they were embarking on. The year before, they had imposed on themselves a voluntary moratorium on experiments which involved the transfer of genes from [...]]]> http://podspec.com/2010/04/04/messing-with-our-planet/feed/ 0 Irish Carbon Budget http://podspec.com/2009/10/23/irish-carbon-budget/ http://podspec.com/2009/10/23/irish-carbon-budget/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:58:58 +0000 cs http://podspec.com/?p=236 LONDON – Ireland is to ban the traditional lightbulb with householders forced to switch to new long-life low-energy bulbs.

Legislation is being introduced to ban the sale of the normal incandescent lightbulb from January, 2009 so as the normal lightbulb breaks, householders will have to replace them with the more environmentally friendly long-life bulb which uses [...]]]> http://podspec.com/2009/10/23/irish-carbon-budget/feed/ 0