This blog has several entries relating the current disaster facing bees in the world, called ‘colony collapse disorder’. Bees are dying off at an alarming rate, but scientists have not been able to definitively name the reason(s). So much of nature is dependent on our little pollinators, the bees, that without them, we would be in a world of hurt. Most folks probably don’t think about how our food chain depends on the humble honey bee, but, it surely does, and agriculture, our economy and our diets will never be the same if this problem doesn’t go away. We humans have been very, very bad to bees.  The industrial agricultural way of doing things has many, many unsustainable aspects to it, but the bee problem may be the straw that breaks it.  Bees are trucked all over the place in the spring, in an exhausting race to pollinate crops and trees over huge geographical areas in the United States.  We don’t love the bees and the beekeepers anywhere near enough.  It appears that a group has gotten together and started to make a documentary about this very important issue called ‘The Vanishing of the Bees’. You can view a trailer of the documentary, and, contribute to the movie funds if you are moved to help publicize this dire situation. The trailer is difficult to watch, very wrenching, but it’s necessary to get the word out, and the problem can’t be watered down for delicate sensibilities.  Maybe we should get Al Gore involved…

• The Vanishing of the Bees