As if we needed to add to the strain of the already-perplexing Colony Collapse Disorder that continues its silent kill of European honeybees worldwide, a late-year news item from Bloomberg portrays a New York judge taking a delinquent EPA to task for turning a blind eye of approval toward Bayer's latest bee killer, environmental advocates say. Why care? Because those honeybees pollinate our crops. So the honeybee goes, so the human population goes. Do we really need another bug spray — another nail in our own coffin? It's time we got schooled in the art of smart consumerism. It's a new year, a new decade, and it's not too late. Self empowerment, anyone?
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What Raindrops Tell us About the Emergent World Order
We've been on the path to globalized trade so long now that it is possible to imagine what the future may look like. Is yesterday's conspiracy — the New World Order — tomorrow's reality? This column compares an abstract subject to something most of us are far more comfortable with: raindrops.
Job Loss Breaks Social Ties — Starting Over
Sociologists followed a Wisconsin graduating class for over 45 years and found that when career circumstances change for the worse, social ties tend to break. Hard times may be temporary, but the isolation may be permanent. Learn how to fight back.