Enrique Gili is a freelance writer covering Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS), issues for regional magazines in the Southland and beyond. I live in Ocean Beach, San Diego the coolest beach town around.
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August 29, 2007
It's difficult to nail down the last time this antique city was considered cutting edge. Whatever the answer, New Orleans was not defined by its spirit of innovation in the decades preceding Hurricane Katrina. But the flood that changed everything...
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Category: Food&Drink
Radiation has its purposes when it comes to mutating the genetic structure of plants. Microwaving orchids has produced quite a few happy accidents. Dr. Pierre Lagoda the head of plant breeding and genetics at the International Atomic Energy Agency, has...
Posted by EJGili at 11:32 AM • 0 Comments •
Scientists may have cracked the merlot code. But but don't hold your breath for that first bottle of "Double Helix Red." The announcement marked the first full accounting of a fruit's genetic material and revealed tantalizing information about the link...
Posted by EJGili at 11:15 AM • 2 Comments •
August 28, 2007
Category: Food&Drink
The unintended consequences of factory farming are just beginning to be fully understood. Fattening pigs for market in cramped pens isn't good for the animal and ultimately not for us as consumers or the environment. According to new research from...
Posted by EJGili at 11:51 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Environment
Marc van Roosmalen is a world-renowned primatologist whose research in the Amazon has led to the discovery of five species of monkeys and a new primate genus. But precisely because of that work, Dr. van Roosmalen was recently sentenced to...
Posted by EJGili at 11:31 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Food&Drink
China plies its trade, apparently without regard for the things that make commerce not only dependable but possible: respect for intellectual property, food and drug purity, and basic product safety. With each tawdry revelation, China's brand of capitalism looks increasingly...
Posted by EJGili at 11:06 AM • 1 Comments •
August 27, 2007
Category: Energy
China's environmental degradation is now so severe, with such stark domestic and international repercussions, that pollution poses not only a major long-term burden on the Chinese public but also an acute political challenge to the ruling Communist Party. And it...
Posted by EJGili at 12:24 PM • 0 Comments •
Stomachs and petrol tanks are for the first time in competition and farmers everywhere are asking themselves a novel question: am I planting food or energy? There is no single source for the revolution sweeping across every continent. But one...
Posted by EJGili at 12:15 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Food&Drink
There are few satisfactions in the world that compare with eating a sun-warmed tomato that has turned the perfect red and is just barely pliant to the touch: plucked, wiped on the inside of your shirt, and bitten into right...
Posted by EJGili at 12:06 PM • 1 Comments •
August 25, 2007
Category: Commentary
In NYC Stuyvesant HS is a haven for the five boroughts smartest students. The ultimate magnate school for high achieving middle schoolers seeking entry to the finest high- school education money can't buy. Back in the day, my friends competed...
Posted by EJGili at 12:26 PM • 1 Comments •
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