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Saturday, June 13th, 2009
Honeybees in danger
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 them gifts of the gods [...]
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Saturday, June 13th, 2009
From watchdog to lapdog: the secret history of the US Environmental Protection Agency
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 first priority was fighting the war [...]
