I’m pleased to announce that my new book “Listening to the Bees” is now available in the US. I’d appreciate any assistance you can provide in spreading the word about the book. Announcements in newsletters, journals, magazines would be great,…
Book Launch 10 May 2018!
“Listening to the Bees”
Very excited for my new book “Listening to the Bees” co-authored with poet Renee Saklikar. Manuscript in to the publisher (Nightwood Editions), book due out 30 April 2018. Stay tuned!
Final Report: Audacious Visions for the Future of Bees, Beekeeping and Pollination
Au·da·cious: “A willingness to take surprisingly bold risks; bold, daring, fearless, intrepid, brave, courageous, valiant, heroic, plucky.” Very excited to announce that the final report from the Bee Audacious conference is now available. Here’s a small bit from the report…
Bee Audacious
Just back from the Bee Audacious conference, and it was astounding, possibly the best bee meeting I’ve ever been at. It combined bees and dialogue, and was a model of both civility and tangible outcomes. There will be a full…
The One Room Schoolhouse
It was a red brick former one-room schoolhouse, standing forlorn and isolated at the edge of a swatch of Midwestern prairie. I was similarly lonely, having just arrived in Lawrence, Kansas to take up graduate studies, with no place to…
Sweet Deal
(photo by Kevin Payravi, Wikimedia Commons) I recently authored a report for the Vancity Credit Union about economic opportunities with bees and pollination. There’s lots of gloom and doom out there about bees, but there also are many opportunities. Vancity…
Fragments
Poetry and science may seem to have little in common, but they do share one trait: building from fragments. I’m collaborating with a wonderful poet, Renee Sarojini Saklikar, on the Honey, Hives and Poetry project, in which we’ve been reading…
Bees and Dialogue video/ Semester in Dialogue Fosters Understanding, Leadership
A couple of recent updates in the bees and dialogue vein: Global Civic Policy Salon, “Bees and Dialogue,” video 4 May 2016 A nice article in the 30 May 2016 Toronto Globe and Mail Western Universities Report about the Undergraduate…
Competing Doomsdays
There is a remarkable story unfolding in Ontario and Quebec around pesticides and bees, rooted in two competing doomsday scenarios. Grain farmers claim pests will destroy their crops unless they are allowed to use neonicitinoid pesticides, while beekeepers point to…