January 2012
5 posts
Are Farmers Addicted to Chemicals?
Farmers I invite you to take the time to understand the toxicology behind the poisons you use. Is it easier for you to spray and apply than to be responsible, especially when bankers require you to use chemicals to protect your loans?
Meanwhile chemical sales people get awarded by the volume of pesticides they sell so they continue to pitch their these-chemicals-are-safe shtick. Making money is...
December 2011
12 posts
The Bees Have a Message ~ the question is will we...
Let go of that old way of being. Or rather that old way of doing. So systems all around us are collapsing; in the long haul, it’s a good thing. A much overdue cleansing of sorts, despite the undeniable pain.
Bees don’t have to die in vain. Not if we take that 12 inch journey down from Occupy Your Head to Occupy Your Heart.
Sounds like a bunch of fluffy talk. But it’s...
Attacking Civil Liberties One Act at a Time
Pssst! Guess what? President Obama may likely sign a bill into law that would allow the government to take you in the middle of the night and lock you up indefinitely for being a so-called “terrorist” without the burden of proving why to an independent judge, despite your sixth amendment’s guarantee of a right to trial.
This is what is at stake with the Senate’s passing of the National Defense...
Going Quantum From Head to Heart
We’re verging on 2012.
“Time is collapsing” This is a phrase that has been coming to me for the past year. Moments feel both infinite and yet fleeting. It’s as though time is losing its meaning. Things are unfolding so rapidly and the to-do list is never ending.
Can you relate?
There is an abyss forming between those who are alive but asleep, they’re watching X-Factor at night,...
Cereals help churn out young slaves to sugar
The story below titled Twinkies for Breakfast? Kids’ Cereals Fail Industry’s own Lame Nutrition Guidelines was written by Michele Simon, public health lawyer and author of Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back. It originally appeared on her site on December 7th and I’ve received permission to repost it.
I chose to reblog her entry because...
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Honey Colony ~ I invite you to join the waggle...
About nine years ago, at the age of 29, I stepped into a cross walk and was hit by a Ford Explorer at 35 miles an hour. I actually dented the vehicle’s grill with my left hip, before bouncing on the hood, rolling off and slamming onto the cement. Somehow my left shoulder got caught between the asphalt and the front right passenger tire, and by the time the driver realized he’d hit a human, I’d...
The Story Behind Those Fine Lips
So what the hell happened here? Really?
It’s New Year’s Eve. Circa 2009. Year two of making Vanishing of the Bees. I open the door to retrieve my mail and find one lone bee dead on my doormat. I happened to look down.
Welcome indeed.
Every time I come into contact with a lone bee — and there have been many bee visitations - I interpret it as the universe telling me I am on...
Big Surprise ~ Big Six Found Guilty ~
After four long days of testimony, the Permanent People’s Tribunal (PPT) has concluded that the pesticide industry’s Big 6 should be held criminally liable for violations of human rights. Not a big surprise here.
“The Tribunal has shown that human rights violations by the pesticide and biotech industry are not isolated. With impunity, they violate economic, social and cultural rights, civil...
Verdict to be Released Against Chemical Companies
About 200 people gathered in Bangalore, India on Saturday December 3rd, for the first day of the Permanent People’s Tribunal (PPT) Session on Agrochemical Transnational Corporations (TNCs). Farmers and farmworkers, families of victims, environmental and health advocates, scientists, and lawyers all have their hopes pinned high on the outcome of the PPT, an international opinion tribunal that aims...
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A Beekeeper on the Edge of Chinatown
*This is an excerpt from my memoir Of Bees & Men. In this chapter I experience my first buzzing hive. It is April 2007.
The first time that we open a hive there comes over us an emotion akin to that we might feel at profaning some unknown object, charged perhaps with dreadful surprise… Maurice Maeterlinck , The life of the Bee 1901.
I was scared but the mystery of the hive beckoned...