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A Spring Without Bees: How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply

Name: A Spring Without Bees: How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply
Author: Michael Schacker
ISBN: 9781599216003

by Michael Schacker

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Overview

Almost fifty years after Rachel Carson called our attention to the dangers of pesticides like DDT, the world faces a similar environmental disaster. In a riveting detective story that melds science and politics, Michael Schacker examines the evidence for Colony Collapse Disorder-which is wiping out beehives across America and beyond at an alarming rate-and offers a plan to save the bees. Like An Inconvenient Truth and Silent Spring before it, A Spring without Bees is a compelling cautionary tale and a clarion call for action.

Synopsis

In a riveting detective story that melds science and politics, Michael Schacker investigates the case of the missing bees, examining the many theories on the cause, including cell phones, mites, new pathogens, and bee management.

About the Author, Michael Schacker

Michael Schacker is an investigative science writer and is the founder of The New Earth Institute, a lifelong learning center on the Internet. He has served as a strategic consultant and contract writer in the field of regenerative agriculture, and believes that there is a solution on this Earth for each of our many problems if we but look for them.