Tagged with: Bees
Tag: Bees
Urban Beekeeping is Thriving
via fwdailynews.com AP Content
Trend is driven by young hobbyists and green entrepreneurs:
“Honey from city hives makes its way into swanky restaurant kitchens and behind the bar, where it’s mixed into cocktails or stars as an ingredient in honey wine…City governments, won over by beekeepers’ passion, are easing restrictions. In recent years, New York, Denver, Milwaukee and Santa Monica have made beekeeping legal. The Backwards Beekeepers group is working to legalize beekeeping in Los Angeles.”
Tagged with: Al Gore, Beehive, Bees, Climate Change, Colony Collapse Disorder, Cute Animals, Environment, Honey
Congress Joins Fight to Save the Honey Bees
From US News Washington Whispers:
In advance of a House hearing on the status of colony collapse disorder, the name given to the disappearing bee syndrome, some 21 House and Senate Democrats and Republicans will join Burt’s Bees and Häagen Dazs Wednesday at a conference to air the problems facing the bee. Right smack in the middle of National Pollinator Week, the event on Capitol Hill will feature lawmakers interested in the bee, like Sen. Hillary Clinton and House Agriculture Committee’s Rep. Dennis Cardoza, the nation’s bee man, the Agriculture Department’s Jeff Pettis, and supporters from Häagen Dazs and Burt’s Bees. Afterward, Häagen Dazs’s new vanilla honey bee ice cream will be served and Burt’s “Help Honey Bees” lip balm will be offered.
Air Pollution Impedes Bees’ Ability to Find Flowers
Air pollution interferes with the ability of bees and other insects to follow the scent of flowers to their source, undermining the essential process of pollination, a study by three University of Virginia researchers suggests.
via Washington Post
Honey Bee Preservation
I was reading up on the honeybee die-off known as colony collapse disorder (CCD) and found a couple of sites to bookmark:
American Beekeeping Federation (http://www.abfnet.org/)
Foundation for the Preservation of the HoneyBee (http://www.honeybeepreservation.org/)
Burts Bees & the Greening of Clorox
Full article at The NYTimes
“Today, the couple’s quirky enterprise is owned by the Clorox Company, a consumer products giant best known for making bleach, which bought it for $913 million in November. Clorox plans to turn Burt’s Bees into a mainstream American brand sold in big-box stores like Wal-Mart. Along the way, Clorox executives say, they plan to learn from unusual business practices at Burt’s Bees — many centered on environmental sustainability. Clorox, the company promises, is going green. “