Glowing Plant: seeds to be shipped ?
The project
Glowing Plant: Natural Lighting without Electricity
Now order:
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Glowing Plant seeds $50
A pack of 50-100 fertile seeds of Glowing Plant Arabidopsis. Use the plants as a nightlight or show them off to your friends. The seeds are expected to ship in September 2014
or
- Maker Kit $300
The maker kit includes the ingredients you need to genetically transform your own plant at home or at a DIY Bio lab like Biocurious or Genspace
…field release?!
ETC Group and Friends of The Earth request a halt to Synthetic Biology project.
http://www.etcgroup.org/content/kickstopper-letter-glowing-plants-project
and suggest “If your Kickstarter backers are still interested in supporting a more genuinely sustainable lighting project they could, for example, be encouraged to fund any one of a number of Kickstarter solar power projects such as the Folding USB Solar Cell”
They quote:
United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which, in 2010, advised:
“Parties and other Governments [are] to apply the precautionary approach in accordance with the Preamble to the Convention, and the Cartagena Protocol, to the introduction and use of living modified organisms for the production of biofuels as well as to the field release of synthetic life, cell, or genome into the environment, acknowledging the entitlement of Parties, in accordance with domestic legislation, to suspend the release of synthetic life, cell, or genome into the environment.” COP10, Decision X37, para 16. (2010) https://www.cbd.int/decision/cop/default.shtml?id=12303