Not only are honeybees disappearing, but bumblebees are going the way of the dinosaurs too. Bumblebees pollinate roughly 15% of crops, which are worth about $3 billion dollars. While there isn’t a definitive cause yet, the National Academy of Sciences has reported that a combination of habitat loss due to housing developments, intensive agriculture, pesticides, [...]
Archive for 9 October 2007
We are screwed
Posted: 9 October 2007 in UncategorizedTags: bees, biology, bumblebees, environmentalism, fatalism, global warming, honeybees, pollinators, stupidity
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The Failed Congress
Posted: 9 October 2007 in UncategorizedTags: bush administration, congress, democrats, green party, kucinich, nsa, politics, sheepocrats, W, wiretapping
The problem with our two-party system is that it encourages uniformity. I am becoming more and more convinced that the only difference between the parties is their rhetoric. An observation that led me to vote Green in the last presidential election. When the Democrats took control of the House in the last election, there was [...]
