Then I thought about the roses that people are planting now, (called “knock out roses”) that have NO nectar, and thus are starving our precious pollinators to death.

And I also thought about Monsanto, DuPont, Dow Chemical, Crop Life America and Bayer, who are all making insecticides called neonicotinoids, that are decimating the pollinator populations by poisoning them to death.

Monsanto and Dow also are now producing new milkweed-killing herbicides, and these will destroy our monarch butterfly populations. Milkweed is their favorite food and vital to their survival.  What would a world be without butterflies? Why are they poisoning their food supply? They are such fragile creatures and how much hardship can they take?

Please join in and help stop this annihilation of our precious web of life.

This is very serious.  I appreciate everyone who has signed my  petition to stop these poisonous neonicotinoids.  I am asking for your assistance now to contact everyone you know to please take a moment and sign this petition.  Please help me reach my goal of 250,000 signatures, which I feel we need in order to get the EPA’s attention.  Right now, we are at 137,000 signatures.

It is so important that everything we do each day helps to sustain and heal and nourish the environment, not destroy it.

If you know anyone who has roses, please inform them about the knock-out roses, that are devoid of nectar.  Butterflies are attracted to them, and when they get there, there is no food.   All that is needed is a little research, to find the best roses to plant that will provide food and nectar for our pollinators.

I contacted Texas A & M University (where I studied landscape architecture and where these roses were developed) more than a few times and they said there is no research to show how this is affecting the environment.  But from my own studies, the large bumblebees were becoming extinct over 27 years ago (3- 4 species are now extinct) from the plants with no nectar (many are GMO and some are hybrid like the knock –out roses) causing them to starve to death. These knock-out roses are now planted all over urban environments in enormous quantities and areas.

I think universities and companies also need to do environmental impact studies on all of their new technologies. At this time, there are no requirements for these at any of the schools that I know of.  I think it would be wise for all universities or schools to require courses on environmental impact for all of their engineers, chemists, inventors, etc. as part of their curriculum. I also feel it would be prudent for universities and companies to be required to preform environmental and health impact studies on all of their inventions and chemicals they are proposing to use. We are all so closely intertwined with each other and what we do does impact the earth and all of it’s inhabitants.

Just a thought.

Thank you sincerely for helping to add to our signatures, because by making more people aware, our world will become a healthier place in which to live.

Sign My Petition Today- Click Here

Also, look at what is happening with Monsanto!

https://fdn.actionkit.com/donate/Monsantos_stock_is_Falling_help_push_them_off_the_cliff/?t=3&akid=1679.129696.jRuKlD

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I am blessed to have her as my friend and so I am sharing this wonderful award with you.

The Award of the Botanical Society of America to Anitra Thorhaug.

for her many varied and substantial

contributions to Botany at the New York Botanical Garden in New

York City. Her marine restoration efforts commencing with Biscayne

Bay, Florida as well as teaching these techniques throughout the

tropical world and including her present restorations in 7 highly

polluted Texas estuaries were highly commended. Also included were

her efforts in forming science-based policy for pollution emissions

such as heat, salinity alterations, oil, dispersed oil, heavy metals

into estuarine and marine environments through both her intensive

laboratory research and working with policy-makers at national and

international levels. Her multicolor light and her membrane research

was stated as being fundamental information to botanical science.

Anitra Thorhaug is presently at Yale School of Forestry, and previously

was at Research Professor at Florida International, at RSMAS and

Microbiology of University of Miami , Visiting Professor at University

of California at Berkeley, and at Weizmann Institute for Science with

Aharon Katchalsky. She is President of Institute for Seagrass, Burton

Texas, and President of Greater Caribbean Energy and Environment.

She has previously won 4 awards from the United Nations for

her work, and an honorary doctorate from Philippines Women’s

University. She has written 12 books and 400 scientific papers and

been consultant to a series of UN agencies ( FAO, World Bank, IMO,

UNESCO, UNEP) as well as foreign and US and state governments on

marine pollution has acted on the board of major scientific societies.

She holds a real estate, a pilots and cave divers license.

Futher information can be reached through A. Thorhaug

– athorhaug@msn.com

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