Factory Farming and Colony Collapse Disorder are YOUR Problems

POLAR BEARS NEED YOUR HELP! Go to the Take Action! page! Today’s DawnWatch features stuff I’ve been telling you about for a year now. LISTENING YET? “The Sunday New York Times Magazine” this week, published December 16, includes a piece by Michael Pollan in the “The Way We Live Now” section. It is headed “Our [...]

Missing Bees Fuel Fears of Agricultural Disaster

This is the third update I’ve made today. Be sure to scroll down and read the other two, or not. No pressure. Fortune magazine’s David Stipp wrote a very good, very informative story about the agricultural and economic disaster caused by colony collapse disorder. The story states: “We wouldn’t starve if the mysterious disappearance of [...]

Pollinator Partnership Releases New Video

You can watch the video titled “Pollenators at Risk – Assignment Earth” on the Partnership’s Web site. Recommendations made near the end of the video to reduce our impact on declining pollenators include 1) creating habitat in your own backyard for pollenators by cultivating native plants, 2) reducing our impact on the environment by burning [...]

Loss of Honeybees Will Make You Hungry

CNN reports today: Unless someone or something stops it soon, the mysterious killer that is wiping out many of America’s honeybees could have a devastating effect on the country’s dinner plate, perhaps even reducing its people to a glorified bread-and-water diet.Honeybees do not just make honey; they pollinate more than 90 of the tastiest flowering [...]

Where Have All the Honeybees Gone?

I keep hearing and reading reports about the mystery of missing honeybees from farms all over the U.S. I wrote about this in an earlier post titled The Birds and Declining Bees. That post referenced a report from the National Academy of Sciences titled “Status of Pollinators in North America.” You can find more information [...]

The Birds and the Declining Bees

The National Academies recent report titled, Status of Pollinators in North America, indicates “Long-term population trends for some North American pollinators — bees, birds, bats, and other animals and insects that spread pollen so plant fertilization can occur — are “demonstrably downward,” says a new report from the National Research Council. However, there is little [...]

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