Green Options » buy locally http://greenoptions.com/tag/buy-locally Posts tagged 'buy locally' Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:26:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en The Sound of the British Summer: Gone in 10 Years? http://ecoworldly.com/2008/03/11/the-sound-of-the-british-summer-gone-in-10-years/ http://ecoworldly.com/2008/03/11/the-sound-of-the-british-summer-gone-in-10-years/#comments Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:26:01 +0000 Pem Charnley http://ecoworldly.com/2008/03/11/the-sound-of-the-british-summer-gone-in-10-years/ honey-bee.jpgGlobalization brings with it many threats to endemic island species.

Certainly, as an example, food air miles often makes the news, with consumers urged to buy locally, in a bid to cut down trade reliant on kerosene and its resultant CO2 emissions.

But importing foreign foods brings with it additional risks and uncertainties. One can never know for sure what else is being imported along with their food.

I use this, I stress, as merely a clue as to what may have caused the varroa mite, which carries a number of viruses and which has wreaked havoc on UK bee colonies.

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