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4th Friday Lecture Series
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Tomorrow's Table
Mixing Organic and Genitically Modified Food

Bewitching Bees!
Bee Survival & Food Supply

Environmental Legacy of the Gold Rush
Human, Geologic & Chemical Consequences

Lights in the Sky
Rainbows, Halos & UFOs

Hydrogen Economy in our Future?
Cars, Power & Possibilities

ABC-Arthropods, Butterflies & Climate
What do the "Indicator Species" tell us?

Music Selection

Lectures at a Glance General Information & Tickets

October 24, 2008

Bewitching Bees – Sweet!

One third of the food we eat is directly or indirectly dependent on honeybees or pollination. If bees were gone, U.S. agricultural production would lose 20 billion dollars a year, with all the fruits, nuts, seeds and dairy products dependent on bees.

The “man to talk about bees” is Randy Oliver, back by popular demand from the 2006 lecture series. How are bee population levels? Is our food supply at risk? Heard on national television and a celebrated speaker at conferences on bees and pollination all over the world, Oliver is on the cutting edge of a movement to promote natural or non-chemical beekeeping.

Oliver will talk about the shifting paradigms of the beekeeping industry, and will open up the fascinating world of the bees, their physiology, morphology, and how bee survival is affecting world food supply.

Randy Oliver

Randy OliverRandy Oliver has turned a childhood passion about bees into a profitable beekeeping venture and become a mentor to thousands in his classes all over Northern California.

 

Honey bees are experiencing problems around the globe.  Randy keeps a finger on the pulse of current bee research worldwide, as well as performing his own trials.  He then digests the information into usable practical advice for beekeepers everywhere.

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We are most grateful to our 4th Friday Lecture Series sponsors who help keep these lectures accessible to everyone:
PG & E
, Auburn Journal, NEC Electronics America, Marion Friedman, Mackenroth and Laird Attnys., 49er Printing & Copying Service and Auburn Sentinel.

Sept. 26th, 2008
Dr. Pamela Ronald
& Raoul Adamchak

Oct. 24th, 2008
Randy Oliver

Jan. 23rd, 2009
Dr. William Murphy

Feb. 27th, 2009
Dr. Paul Doherty

March 27th, 2009
Joshua Cunningham

April 24th, 2009
Dr. Arthur Shapiro

All Lectures start with live music at
7 PM
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Unity of Auburn
1212 High Street
Auburn, CA 95603