Dearest readers,
OK, so bees might not be your primary concern these days, what with health care and jobs and foreclosures to worry about. But we depend on our buzzing buddies more than you might think: for one thing, they play a key role in producing a third of the food we eat.
So here’s an easy way to show your love for the bees this week: tweet!
Through a campaign called Help the Honey Bees (#HelpHoneyBees), Haagen-Dazs is raising funds and awareness. As part of the campaign, from now through November 11, the company will donate $1 per tweet with the proper hashtag, up to 500 per day. The money will support honeybee research at UC Davis. Of course, they could just cough up the $3500 and be done with it ... but that wouldn’t be viral and all that good stuff!
Show the world you’re as viral as colony collapse disorder ... tweet for the bees today.
And check out my bee hugs video, below. It’s one of my favorites. Spread the honey love!
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amazingdrx Posted 9:41 am
08 Nov 2009
Talk up the wilderness bee crop idea please Umbra? Just as wilderness crops like shea butter and natural herbal medicines are putting a decent living into natural symbiotic (rain) forestry in Afica and South/central America, it might buoy the rural economy here.
The wildflower honey we get from the woods and fields and trails here is sublime.
Anopther question? Since 100% perfectly organic is a hard standard to acheive in a contaminated biosphere, could a lesser standard be developed? I'm thinking of honey because it's hard to get 100% wild plant source food for bees, but 95% ought to be possible given wildness trail portable apiaries. Towed out a few miles on a bear proof trailer? Why not?
An as-ORGANIC-as-you-can-get standard.
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Mikey400 Posted 1:57 pm
08 Nov 2009
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12 Nov 2009
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gersariel Posted 7:07 am
13 Nov 2009
Life is a chain that all of us are interlinked! No one is less or more that the other ...we need all of us to keep on going
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