http://www.vallianatos.com views on hellenism and ecology Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:50:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Truthout recently published my thoughts on honeybees and the threats of industrial agriculture. Here's an excerpt: Honeybees have been in terrible straits. A little history explains this tragedy. For millennia, honeybees lived in symbiotic relationship with societies all over the world. The Greeks loved them. In the eighth century BCE, the epic poet Hesiod considered ... http://www.vallianatos.com/?p=80 After working for EPA for 25 years, here's a glimpse of what I saw: The EPA came into being in December 1970. President Richard Nixon created this new agency because of the massive failure of the government to protect nature and humans from the unkind touch of toxic chemicals and radiation. But Nixon's ... http://www.vallianatos.com/?p=74   The Seattle Post-Intelligencer just published an opinion piece I wrote on EPA's flaws and future. It references the agency's corporate-captured regulatory approach and  my experience trying to get the pesticide toxaphene banned in the 1980s {that's the chemical structure above} as well as alternative approaches to safeguarding health and the ... http://www.vallianatos.com/?p=50 I have a short commentary piece on this summer's Greek fires in the Chicago Tribune. "... The August burning of Greece revealed the deplorable, unacceptable and dangerous situation into which the country has fallen. Greece is a tourist nation, almost entirely devoted to serving foreigners for a few months a year; however, ... http://www.vallianatos.com/?p=13 Welcome to through greek eyes, a collection of views and writings by Evaggelos Vallianatos.... http://www.vallianatos.com/?p=1