The full interview aired on originally on Sustainable Long Island, a monthly radio show Francesca hosts on WPKN 89.5 FM. How To Bring Pollinators To Your Yard and CommunityĬommunities all around the country are becoming more friendly to pollinators in order to stem the drastic decline of insects.įrancesca spoke with Gail Pellett, organizer for one such group, ChangeEHampton, about their campaign to make their local community more pollinator-friendly. Oliver Milman in the Guardian: “Fears for bees as US set to extend use of toxic pesticides that paralyze insects” Oliver Milman in the Guardian: “Bees Can Play Soccer” What’s causing the Insect Apocalypse? Why does it pose such a threat to us? And what can be done to stem the loss of the miniature empires that hold aloft life as we know it? Oliver Milman, environment correspondent for the Guardian, gives us some of the answers. In The Insect Crisis, journalist Oliver Milman dives into the torrent of recent evidence that suggests that the insects kingdom is suffering the greatest existential crisis in its 400-million-year history. Three out of every four of our planet’s known animal species are insects. The end of birds the end of food and the end of complex life as we know it-that’s the catastrophe we face if we continue to lose insect populations around the world, as we are doing at an alarming pace. It really helps to get the word out about our show.ĭo you like birds? How about eating? How would you like to live in a world where our waste never degrades-bodies and poop just piling up around us? Love Writer’s Voice? Please rate us on your podcast app.

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Writers Voice- in depth conversation with writers of all genres, on the air since 2004. We talk with Gail Pellett of the group ChangeEHampton. Then, we round out today’s episode with some practical advice on how to make your lawn and garden pollinator-friendly. It’s a devastating examination of how collapsing insect populations worldwide threaten everything from wild birds to the food on our plate. We talk with Oliver Milman about his book The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World.

The insect crisis by oliver milman