Today is National Honey Bee Awareness Day! Where would the world be (no pun intended) without the Pollinators? In honor of the bees who pollinate many crops here are three presentations on bees.
Bringing Back Urban Bees
QUEST on KQED Public Media.
Attracting Native Bees To Your Garden
QUEST on KQED Public Media.
Better Bees: [...]
Jean-Michel Cousteau, world-renowned oceanographer, shows us where massive amounts of garbage from throughout the world winds up. First in a series of three on trash, today’s post is about Marine Debris. What is Marine Debris? It’s trash left over from sea-faring activities plus land-based trash that wind up here via the [...]
This is a tongue-in-cheek animation short on the some of the absurdities of “greenwashing” by those companies who would exploit the “green movement’ in any way possible.
Kqed.org recently had a radio show on the a project based at Stanford University. Here’s a 5 minute clip about a joint project between Stanford, the World Wildlife Fund and the Nature Conservancy.
Each of us cannot deny our connection with nature. Generations ago, connecting to nature was much easier – even for city dwellers. Now, many do not get the chance to experience nature. A few decades ago, much of the public became afraid to wander in nature especially in cities along with some suburbs. Some city [...]
How environmentally friendly is your web hosting? I myself haven’t made the switch to solar powered and wind powered web hosting. I truly wish that more companies would do this. With the proliferation of so many sites and blogs, it would be fantastic if eco-friendly web hosting would be much more viable and mainstream. Until [...]
survivalists
http://www.vegparadise.com/survival.html
It gives me great pleasure to write about Pigs.org. What I like about this animal sanctuary located in West Virginia, U.S.A. is their ethos and honest assessment of what it’s like to run an animal shelter. Pigs main focus is on rescuing and caring for abandoned pot-bellied farm pigs. Other animal [...]
celebrate world water week
so glad that there are some fair trade diamonds out there. what about you?