Forums:

Native pollinators worth about $3 billion annually

pollinator

Posts: 2103

Location: Oakland, CA

posted 14 years ago

Number of slices to send:

Optional 'thank-you' note:

Send

I just watched a great video about insectiary planting, and its potential economic impact.

Apparently, the decline in native pollinator populations is a huge economic concern. The video seems to offer some good practical advice, as well:

Pollinators Welcome

"the qualities of these bacteria, like the heat of the sun, electricity, or the qualities of metals, are part of the storehouse of knowledge of all men. They are manifestations of the laws of nature, free to all men and reserved exclusively to none." SCOTUS, Funk Bros. Seed Co. v. Kale Inoculant Co.

Posts: 59

Location: NW Ontario

posted 14 years ago

Number of slices to send:

Optional 'thank-you' note:

Send

Here's a link to a documentry about bees. Economics may be partly responsible for the decline of the honey bee.
Once again it seems humans have tried to better a natural process and maximize productivity for our own ends only to find out that we didn't understand what we were doing.
http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/natureofthings/2010/bees/

Just the other day, I was thinking ... about this tiny ad:

Heat your home with the twigs that naturally fall of the trees in your yard

http://woodheat.net