Webinar: Gene Editing – Blurring the Lines Between Nature and Technology

This webinar is part of the Bigger Conversation initiative, which we run at Beyond GM. ‘Natural’ is a much abused concept, and yet it still has meaning to many especially where food and the environment are concerned. The UK government’s document Regulating for the Fourth Industrial Revolution talks about “blurring the lines” between the natural […]

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Gene editing – Solution or Distraction?

Up until a year or so ago, you could be forgiven for thinking that the issue of genetically engineered foods in the UK had faded quietly away.  It hadn’t, of course. While consumer scepticism remained a big hurdle to introducing GMOs into the UK food system – and more widely into Europe – genetic engineers were creating new genetic technologies, imagining new ways to apply them to food and farming and, perhaps most importantly, inventing new narratives to position genetic engineering as simply a natural step on the continuum of plant breeding and improvement of our crop species. In the last decade genetic engineering and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) became ‘gene editing’, genetic engineering became ‘biotechnology’ and genetic engineers became ‘biotechnologists’. ‘Sustainable intensification’, ‘nature-based solutions’, ‘precision breeding’ and ‘speed breeding’ have all become euphemisms for genetic engineering.

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Webinar: Gene Editing & Agroecology – Reframing the Debate on Food System Transition

This webinar is s part of the Bigger Conversation initiative, which we run at Beyond GM. Looked at through the lens of the current industrial farming paradigm, gene editing makes sense as a ‘tool in the toolbox’.  But farming urgently needs to change and it is widely agreed that agroecology is the paradigm we need […]

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Mental Wellness Out Now

I am pleased to say that a new book, which I helped to write and acted as a consultant on, has landed.

Neal’s Yard Remedies Mental Wellness, explores the key lifestyle inhibitors to mental wellness and suggests supportive natural approaches for maintaining mental health in the form of herbs, foods, aromatherapy, homeopathy, breathwork, yoga, connecting with nature, hobbies; and therapies such as acupuncture, reiki, massage, and CBT.

As with all the Dorling Kindersley books I have been involved in on behalf of Neal’s Yard Remedies I was working with a fantastic team and this is both a beautiful and practical volume. It was also an interesting project to work on during stresses and restrictions of the last year’s extended lockdowns!

Copies available to purchase here.

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