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This is a letter to the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker Vice President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans The Health Commissioner Vytenis Andruikaitis Why did President Juncker fail to state ECHA’s risk assessment in

Source: Biocides glyphosate and clothianidin are contributing to the destruction of aquatic life on the Great Barrier Reef European Commission renews the license for glyphosate on the basis of ECHA’s Classification 1

I’ve been saying for years that the coral bleaching worldwide is most likely due to pesticides and the idea that it’s due to a tiny fractional change in ocean temperature is utterly ridiculous and only promoted by people with absolutely no true biological knowledge or ulterior motives.

Sustainability is not telling everyone the Earth is flat because someone has told you that it is.

Source: https://patch.com/california/temecula/1-750-homes-planned-near-old-town-temecula-mountain-lion-corridor

At the time of the agreement’s signing, an attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity said the pact gives Santa Ana’s imperiled mountain lions “a pathway to recovery.”

“Poorly planned highways and development have hemmed this population in, and these beautiful big cats are being driven toward extinction. Now they have a better chance at survival,” said attorney J.P. Rose.

Yes!
Be well my friends!

A study published in the journal Ecology Letters highlights the benefits of urban gardens for their human caretakers and local ecosystems.

Source: Community Gardens Are Good for the Neighborhood

Yes they are! It is a terrible shame in my opinion that some have waiting lists of more than a year. Come on City councils. And churches often have land that they could put to a good use other than watering grass.

https://www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/community-gardens/

The Environmental Working Group released its annual list of non-organic produce with the most pesticides. Blueberries and green beans joined this year’s top 12.

Source: 2023’s ‘Dirty Dozen’: The 12 fruits and vegetables with the most pesticides—and 4 tips for enjoying them safely

I’ve been trying not to dwell on pesticides as much I have been told that I’m being too negative :-)
However in this article there is a key phrase:”two or more”. The combination of pesticides is a serious problem for the population. The combination of two different pesticides could have vastly increased harmful effects the same as over the counter medications. When you get drugs over the counter the pharmacist consults the database of problem combinations. Those kinds of studies are not being done on pesticides. Be well and try to avoid all the toxins out there.

Source: Are your strawberries bland? Pesticides could be to blame

😂 Just start thinking about this. Then keep thinking about this. Then think about it again. Then start asking yourselves how many other things we don’t know about the effects of pesticides.

Bats. They have a bad reputation. That’s why we decided to create a cutest bat contest. Let us know in the comments who should win!

Source: The Cutest Bat Contest: Here Are The Winners

Rio Verde, Arizona, a suburb just outside of Scottsdale, had its water supply shut off as a consequence of the mega-drought affecting the southwest.

Source: A suburb outside of Scottsdale, Arizona has had its water shut off due to the drought, in a ‘worst-case scenario’

Bummer. They wouldn’t have an issue if they all had pool2ponds :-). Some of my clients got in the neighborhood of 10,000 gallons of rain water this last month. Wow.

A rise in demand for Adderall has triggered a shortage of the drug.

Source: Adderall shortage puts U.S. on brink of public health crisis

Just stunned….

There are 335 million people in the USA as of this date.
And 41 million prescriptions of adderall as of last year. Over 10% …. I am just stunned. Sometimes you think you actually know how evil the biomedical industrial complex is and then you realize you don’t have a clue.

Source:https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn6350

Over the past decade, research has shown that microorganisms living on and inside eukaryotes—the microbiota—are drivers of host health. For plants, microbiota can greatly expand their genomic capabilities by enhancing immunity, nutrient acquisition, and tolerance to environmental stresses (1). More than ever, plant microbiota are being considered as a lever to increase the sustainability of food production under a changing climate.

Sustainability is not being dependent on chemical fertilizers and yet glyphosate and neem oil are both likely to increase our dependence on chemical fertilizers as they are toxic to the soil food web. It’s likely many other biocides are also toxic to the soil food web and even our beneficial microbes. The increased use of chemical fertilizers may be part of the reasons behind the next quote.

For example, the domestication of legumes, combined with long-term nitrogen fertilization, has been linked to the evolution of less mutualistic rhizobia (nitrogen-fixing soil bacteria that form nodules in the roots of legumes), and legume varieties that are less able to discriminate between rhizobia that provide nitrogen to the plant versus those that do not (4, 8).

Source: https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/delta-abandons-appeal-of-pilot-suspension-award/

So I just got through giving a small permaculture talk in which I said that permaculture was simply not about “treating other people badly.”

I’ll tell you what else permaculture is _not_, it is not about big self-entitled businesses paying for the science that they want. And it’s not about crooked doctors and scientists being bought and sold. Since businesses are now people, let’s all start calling the business Karen’s of the world “Delta airlines.”