Source: Farmers Guardian. Hilary Benn, Defra Secretary, has rejected calls from the organic lobby to ban insecticides they say damage the health of honey bees.

In response to yesterday's article about bees, Phil Chandler, author of The Barefoot Beekeeper, here suggests 10 more natural and organic orientated solutions to help the endangered honey bee.

Bees are probably one of the most economically useful creatures on earth, pollinating a third of all we eat. They provide more than 50% of pollination of wild plants on which birds and mammals depend say Dr Ivor Davis, Master Beekeeper.

This french form to send letters to Harper and Kenny to let Galloway in Canada, please note and forward

Canada is a democracy - protect our freedom of ideas. Help enable Galloway to do his planned Canadian speaking tour: The anti-war British MP George Galloway has been banned from entering Canada where he is due to speak at a number of public events next we

Another key barrier that sometimes pits conservationists against ecologists has been removed by this report from the UK's RSPB on windpower and wildlife living side by side.

Interesting, seems a large number of Brits would go solar if the utilities were made to pay a reasonable price for unused power generated.

At last a campaign for a refocusing of political priorities on people not failed banks.

Three hundred and forty Greenpeace activists from across Europe have blocked the exits of the Brussels building where EU finance ministers are discussing funding for developing nations to tackle climate change

The Trades Union Congress's report "Unlocking Green Enterprise: A low carbon strategy for the UK economy" is a superb outline approach to policy initiatives that show how markets alone are unable to meet the needs of a 21st Century UK.