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Slovenia Bans Treated Corn Seed and Pesticide as Bee Deaths Continue

Slovenia Bans Treated Corn Seed and Pesticide as Bee Deaths Continue

Avaaz.org calls for a ban on nicotine pesticides

Today, the major international organization Avaaz.org called for a ban on the use of the nicotine pesticides strongly implicated in the die-offs of honeybees and pollinators dying worldwide:

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/save_the_bees_usa/?cl=895640742&v=8117

We urge  everyone to sign this important petition.

Cheers, Kevin

 

 

 

"Nicotine Bees" Population Restored With Neonicotinoids Ban

TreeHugger.com's Roberta Cruger recently reported on Nicotine Bees' delibvery to the US Congress, and that honeybee populations in Italy were restored with the ban on nicotine pesticides:

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/05/nicotine-bees-population-restore...

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Italy keeps ban on neonicotinoid seed coating to save bees

YourIs.com, Italy keeps ban on neonicotinoid seed coating to save bees

The Italian Agriculture Ministry suspended the use of pesticides containing clothianidin, thiametoxam and imidacloprid for the coating of any plant seeds (May '09).

Tens of thousands of them don’t even manage to get back to their apiary. Disoriented, they lose the way home and die. Others just drop dead after sucking the tiniest amount of dew exuded by maize leaves if the plants have been absorbing neonicotinoids, a class of pesticides that Italy has temporarily banned as seed coating in September last year for their “possible connection to the colony collapse of bees”.

Landmines and Ethics: Jody Williams

Jul 13 2003
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Is the indiscriminate damage caused by land mines compatible with an ethical world?

Jody Williams is one of the founders of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, and in 1997 accepted the Nobel Peace Prize award on behalf of the ICBL.

Filmed by Nettuno TV in Italy, and re-broadcast with permission from the Global Security Institute.

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