Bee Ignorance

I received an email with these pictures and statements.

These are honey bees and if handled properly, they can be removed without a mass genocide of one of the most important links in the food chain.

I feel that people are not educated enough about our environment, that they make very bad decisions and then think that it is perfectly okay. Bees are extrememly important to the pollination of flowering plants, including the nuts, fruits, and vegetables that we eat every day. If one were to come upon a hive like this, you should contact a beekeeper and they would then remove the queen into a wooden bee box and the others would follow, once in the box, the bees would be transported to a farm to help pollinate crops and their honey would be collected for sale to you and me.

http://s57.photobucket.com/albums/g206/Batman1228/Bee%20killing/


" I knew there were bees coming from under the cover and knew they would need to be killed.
Now I know these bombs aren't for bees, but I thought I'll suffocate/smoke them out. So here is the weapon of choice and delivery system.

"I thought I was pretty smart (hehehe), designed to be easily maneuvered underthe cover of darkness... so then I release the weapon of buzz destruction. OMG! the sound from under the cover was incredible!!! Then I ran like crazy....
Coming back few min's later to see the death toll.


"I continued to remove the cover and to light the bbq to give it a clean when I noticedsome fatty looking substance on the top of the side shelf thing.... Bit weird. I always clean it before I put it away for winter and no way was therefat there before, so I began to wonder...
NO... it can't be, could it?
I slowly removed the rest of the cover only to find this …
Can you imagine what would have happened if Ihad just whipped the cover off?"

Solar Homesteading

This guy seems to be going in the right direction but a few formalities need to be addressed. Good videos and good info.

http://www.youtube.com/user/solarcabin

Seed Monopoly: Monsanto

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/11/business/la-fi-food-monopoly12-2010mar12

http://stlouis.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2010/03/08/daily74.html

Bullock Brothers Homestead

New solar panel on the way and a few interesting websites

The website that posted this video is a pretty good one. http://www.growandmake.com

and also this is a cool reference site. http://green.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_Green

After I get the solar charger in a few days I will test it and give a review.

Life Unplugged

http://www.lifeunplugged.net/

This looks like a cool site.

Current reading material

I am currently reading this book and is a great source of first hand knowledge of living the good life and will give you a good belly laugh every other page or so.


You can buy it on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Farewell-My-Subaru-Adventure-Living/dp/0812977890/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266212763&sr=8-1

Befriend Bees

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1216/is_5_214/ai_n13662242/

Solar powered cell phone battery charger

I bought a cell phone charger a year or so ago and never really used it. Now that I have dug it out, I know realize it is like finding a 20 dollar bill you had stashed somewhere. Anyway, this is the charger that I have. It has worked great the last few days and charged up my phone for a few days. Now I am going to continue to use it and in a weird way, make my cell phone green, at least on my end of the line.

Micro Hydro System

Just starting!

If you couldn't tell, I have just started this blog. I am going to share the great things in this world that I have discovered and share them with you. I hope that my scientific inexperience will not drive you away, but be a learning experience for us all.

My hopes are to share thoughts of me and others on how to grow food organically and locally, conserve water and not pollute the one thing we all take for granted, show you how we can all convert or build sustainable and renewable energies for our homes, and just to prove a point, I would like everyone to understand the importance of one small step, bees, in nature and show how crucial that link is in everything that we eat.