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"For the bee, honey is the ultimate reality. It represents the fulfillment of her life mission..."

This quote was forwarded from my friend John McDonald, who is an amazing beekeeper of 45 years, and who is in the film "Nicotine Bees:"

April 9, 2010 - 12:11
"Nicotine Bees" Population Restored With Neonicotinoids Ban

TreeHugger.com's Roberta Cruger recently reported on Nicotine Bees' delibvery to the US Congress, and that honeybee populations in Italy were restored with the ban on nicotine pesticides:

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June 15, 2010 - 14:27
"Nicotine Bees" showing at South Coastal Library, Delaware, USA

Neonicotinoid Insecticides Linked to Honeybee ...

June 30, 2010 - 09:29
"What's wrong with our nation's approach to regulating pesticides" by Jennifer Sass of NRDC, in Washington, DC

 http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/jsass/whats_wrong_with_our_nations_a.html

January 21, 2011 - 12:44
10-Year Old Felix: Plant for the Planet Campaign (Deutsch with subtitles)

The amazing 10-year-old Felix Finkbeiner articulates his wishes for "Plant for the Planet" the campaign to plant trees - a United Nations-sponsored program that has become an...

July 13, 2008 - 09:41
270,000 Organic Farmers Sue Monsanto

Original emailed by Paul Ray

July 23, 2011 - 13:16
A World that Works for Everyone By Jay Walljasper - #Commons

A World that Works for Everyone

By Jay Walljasper

Original article in Notre Dame Magazine:
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January 15, 2012 - 10:28
Adopt Your Local Coal-Fired Power Plant

How we can get a big part of the US carbon economy to turn off?

Practically? Safely?

Over the past few years, I've been very impressed with The Sierra Club's "Stop the Coal Rush...

November 12, 2011 - 14:01
An amazing visualization of KIVA.org and the flow of Money-for-Good-Will around the world

I just saw one of the great accomplishments of the 21st Century: KIVA.org, shown via an amazing video visualization of money flowing around the world:

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September 10, 2011 - 17:16
An Open-Source Design Ecosystem for Civilization: OpenFarmTech.org - #Commons

Open Source Ecology is a network of farmers, engineers, and supporters that has been imagining and creating the Global Village Construction Set, an open source, low-cost, high performance...

April 28, 2011 - 11:39
April 29th 2011 - German Beekeepers Demonstrate Against Systemic Pesticides in Cologne

Manfred Hederer, President of DBIB, the German Professional Beekeeping Association, released this announcement this week. The situation for honey bees in Germany is very bad, and worsening....

April 23, 2011 - 15:03
Are honey bees being killed off by chemically coated crop seeds?

Link to Original Article: Friday, May 14, 2010 by: David Gutierrez, staff writer

June 3, 2010 - 13:14
August 24th: Audubon Greenwich, Connecticut, film series to screen Nicotine Bees

Space limited. Advance tickets required. RSVP to Jeff at 203-869-5272 x239....

July 19, 2010 - 15:31
Avaaz.org calls for a ban on nicotine pesticides

Today, the major international organization Avaaz.org called for a ban on the use of the...

January 6, 2011 - 16:07
Bayer Corp. Annual Meeting: German Beekeepers Protest Pesticides

This image was sent by German beekeepers of their protest outside the Bayer Corporation annual meeting April 29, 2011:

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April 30, 2011 - 12:16
Becoming Human Again: Occupy Wall Street and the Restoration of Caring - #Commons

The Occupy Wall Street protests have uncovered what we had refused to see, and asked us to re-look at what had been taken for granted:

We have a good world when we take care of each other,...

December 10, 2011 - 08:25
Bee-Killing Nicotine Pesticide Illegally Registered in US - One Million+ Sign Emergency Petition

A remarkable emergency petition with over one million signatures has been submitted to the USEPA requesting the withdrawal of the pesticide clothianidin - a nicotine-based systemic pesticide...

March 24, 2012 - 17:14
Bee-Killing Pesticide Imidacloprid Voluntarily Withdrawn for Almonds

Bee-Killing Pesticide Imidacloprid Voluntarily Withdrawn for Almonds

November 21, 2011 - 17:33
Beekeepers win: European Court of Justice declares that GMO pollen cannot be allowed to contaminate honey

Relayed from:

Walter Haefeker, President
European Professional Beekeepers Association
Member of the Board of Directors
German Professional Beekeepers Association...

September 9, 2011 - 10:45
Bees facing a poisoned spring: New kind of pesticide, widely used in UK, may be helping to kill off the world's honeybees

Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor for The Independent in...

January 20, 2011 - 12:38
Behaviour of Imidacloprid in Fields. Toxicity for Honey Bees

By  J. M. Bonmatin · I. Moineau · R. Charvet · M. E. Colin · C. Fleche · E. R. Bengsch

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May 20, 2010 - 23:07
Blue Spruce Hollow I: Architect David Hartke Builds a LEED/Green Residence

Blue Spruce Hollow, Episode I:

Architect David Hartke showed Pierre his environmentally conscious new home, under construction in Doylestown Pennsylvania. The home is to become a LEED-...

January 2, 2007 - 18:55
Blue Spruce Hollow II: Architect David Hartke Moves Forward with his LEED Green Home

Blue Spruce Hollow, Episode II: Architect David Hartke shows Pierre his environmentally conscious new home, under construction in Doylestown Pennsylvania.

Since this was first filmed in...

June 10, 2007 - 19:50
Bolivia enshrines natural world's rights with equal status for Mother Earth - #Commons

Bolivia follows Ecuador in enacting laws to protect and give rights to nature directly: 

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April 23, 2011 - 14:19
Bombed by 67 Nukes

Senator Abacca Anjain Madisson of Rongelap, Marshall Islands, describes how her country was struck by 67 nuclear...

August 18, 2008 - 19:27
Bravo! Nicotine Bees is an outstanding documentary (by Dr. Neil Carman)


"The producers did their homework - spending two years researching, interviewing an impressive group of individuals and splicing an...

December 28, 2009 - 17:27
British Beekeepers' Association to stop endorsing bee-killing pesticides

http...

November 17, 2010 - 13:30
Building a Culture of Peace: Senator Douglas Roche

Senator Douglas Roche speaks at the 4th Summit of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates in Rome, 2003. Re-Broadcast with permission of the the Global...

July 16, 2003 - 16:47
California Re-Evaluates 282 Nicotine Pesticides February 16, 2010 - 18:09
Canada: Fetuses Have Widespread Pesticide Residues

Pesticides associated to genetically modified foods (PAGMF), are engineered to tolerate herbicides such as glyphosate (GLYP) and gluphosinate (GLUF) or insecticides such as the bacterial toxin...

December 9, 2012 - 11:39