Year: 2022

€80 BN EC RESEARCH INITIATIVE. "The new European Union research budget has had its official UK launch. Known as Horizon 2020, the program is worth nearly £67bn (80bn euros) and covers the next seven years."" " http://lnkd.in/d9pWWUt View in LinkedIn

FERTILIZERS AND PESTICIDES GREW OUT OF MUNITIONS. "The chemical fertilizer industry (along with that of pesticides, which are based on the poison gases developed for war) is the product of the government's effort to convert its war machine to peacetime purposes."" " http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/whats-eating-america-121229356/ View in LinkedIn

FERTILIZERS AND PESTICIDES GREW OUT OF MUNITIONS. "The chemical fertilizer industry (along with that of pesticides, which are based on the poison gases developed for war) is the product of the government's effort to convert its war machine to peacetime purposes."" " http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/whats-eating-america-121229356/ View in LinkedIn

FROM SUN FERTILIZER TO FOSSIL FUELS. "When humankind acquired the power to fix nitrogen, the basis of soil fertility shifted from a total reliance on the energy of the sun to a new reliance on fossil fuel."" " http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/whats-eating-america-121229356/ View in LinkedIn

ROCKY MOUNTAIN ARSENAL." ""Weapons manufactured at RMA included both conventional and chemical munitions, including white phosphorus (M34 grenade), napalm, mustard gas, lewisite, and chlorine gas.[ RMA is also one of the few sites that had a stockpile of Sarin gas (aka nerve agent GB), an organophosphorus compound, and one of the most toxic substances ever created in a lab."" " http://lnkd.in/dtVBHph View in LinkedIn

ROCKY MOUNTAIN ARSENAL USED FOR PESTICIDES. "from 1946 to 1982, the Army leased RMA facilities to private industries for the production of pesticides. One of the major lessees, Shell Oil Company," " http://lnkd.in/dtVBHph View in LinkedIn

ROCKY MOUNTAIN ARSENAL USED FOR PESTICIDES. "from 1946 to 1982, the Army leased RMA facilities to private industries for the production of pesticides. One of the major lessees, Shell Oil Company,"" " http://lnkd.in/dtVBHph View in LinkedIn

US FARMING TURNING POINT. "The great turning point in the modern history of corn, which in turn marks a key turning point in the industrialization of our food, can be dated with some precision to the day in 1947 when the huge munitions plant at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, switched over from making explosives to making chemical fertilizer."" " http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/whats-eating-america-121229356/ View in LinkedIn

US FARMING TURNING POINT. "The great turning point in the modern history of corn, which in turn marks a key turning point in the industrialization of our food, can be dated with some precision to the day in 1947 when the huge munitions plant at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, switched over from making explosives to making chemical fertilizer."" " http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/whats-eating-america-121229356/ View in LinkedIn

CLOSE CALL ON BLANKET SPRAYING. "After World War II, the government had found itself with a tremendous surplus of ammonium nitrate, the principal ingredient in the making of explosives. Ammonium nitrate also happens to be an excellent source of nitrogen for plants. Serious thought was given to spraying America's forests with the surplus chemical, to help the timber industry."" " http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/whats-eating-america-121229356/ View in LinkedIn