The new National Nanotechnology Strategy Taskforce report “Options for a National Nanotechnology Strategy”, released by Industry Minister Macfarlane on 12 September, fails to address the most significant public interests issues raised by nanotechnology,...
By Georgia Miller. Reprinted from New Matilda 8 September 2006. Unaccompanied by regulatory oversight or public debate, the nanotechnological revolution has begun. Several hundred consumer products now include engineered nanoparticles. Global sales of nanoproducts...
By Gyorgy Scrinis. Reprinted from Arena Magazine, No. 83, June/July, 2006 Nanotechnology — a new range of techniques for engaging with and reconstructing nature at the atomic and molecular level — is being hailed as the basis of the ‘next industrial...
In early July 2006 I was invited and journeyed as the FOE Australia Nanotechnology Projects representative to Zurich to participate in the International Risk Governance Council Conference on Nanotechnology. The purpose of the conference was for the invited speakers...
The nanotechnology issue of Chain Reaction, Friends of the Earth’s quarterly magazine, provides a great introduction to this powerful new technology. Chain Reaction tackles all the hard issues that industry and government are attempting to ignore in the emerging...