Using plants to pull metal out of soil could help curb environmental destruction and human rights abuses.
Alpine pennycress is a charming little plant. Its low-growing rosette of green leaves is topped by leggy stalks bearing clusters of pinkish-white flowers. As they develop, these flowers transform into beautiful flattened seed pods that, in the words of botanist Liz Rylott from the United Kingdom’s University of York, “resemble a British old penny.”
Watch out Canada - Prime Minister Banker Daddy Mark Carney just added this project to your fast-track list. Here’s our Honest Government Ad about Ksi Lisims LNG terminal and PRGT Pipeline—minus the bullshit.
This struggle, developing cooperation into coalition, is an example of the absolutely necessary UNITY that must be built among those fighting for a society that combines democratic working-class power with ecological sanity. ONLY that alliance has a chance of creating a future for our children.
This is a 60 Minutes Story about how the Trump administration violated our constitution and people's basic human dignity. Acting like this does nothing to make us safer, and in fact only makes it more likely that American citizens are put at risk
