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Liquid Gold

Saturday, 21 March 2009

Today I am a thief. My part in a large gang of professionals who resorted to robbing a bee hive of more than a third of its liquid gold has left me craving the sweet taste of more honey! As I have previously posted, bees are vital to our survival and the mysteries behind the colony collapse disorder have been heralded as the canary in the coal mine for climate change... today, however, we enjoyed the traditional act of robbing a hive, uncapping the frames and extracting the honey in a centrifugal extractor... The honey was much richer and thicker than previous robberies because all the re-vegetation we've done in the area has finally taken off! Mmmmm.... deliciously sweet honey! Now that I have more than 5kg of honey in my possession I've stumbled across some intriguing new recipes to try out. Chocolate addiction has been temporarily overcome with honey addiction! And I can lick my lips all day with my home made honey kissed lip balm!

Labels: honey

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$5000 bonus...

Friday, 19 December 2008

My sincere thanks to all those who voted... The picture to the left was chosen as the winner of the environmental prize!!!! We have our start up funds for the new venture :-) This is so so exciting!! It's really hard to believe one person could win a $10000 environmental prize AND a $5000 environmental prize all in 1 year but as I always say, anything is possible... This is the boost the project needed to get off the ground over christmas/new year...

I also made a fantastic discovery today... Health by Chocolate - fantastically organic chocolate, supposedly good for the environment AND good for your health. No more low iron or low anything else... I can chocolate way my good health! Unfortunately it's only available in the US... But Xin and I tried to create healthy, study enhancing chocolate during exams once so perhaps there is another business opportunity for us there! I have always wanted to make chocolate, from crushing the cacao beans to decorating the wrappers... and now that there is a plantation in Queensland it can be sustainable as well as healthy!

This blog is a bit all over the place today... I'll put more consistent and better blogging on my list of new years resolutions too, but I just felt I needed to mention a few startling facts.... Grace, an old friend from school recently recommended I read The Honey Spinner a worldwide honey adventure (yum!). The narrator (also named Grace) drizzles her way through various pots of 'liquid gold' discovering some serious issues behind the tasty industry. Albert Einstein once said that: 'If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man'. While the current focus is on the US financial crisis another crisis is unfolding, the ramifications of which might prove to be just as serious. Colony collapse disorder, a phenomenon that has been called the Marie Celeste of the bee world, has been occurring since 2006. Colonies of adult bees just disappear. Few bodies are ever found and tests show that they are full of pathogens. Nearly a third of honeybee colonies have been destroyed by the syndrome and scientists do not yet know why it is occurring. I really don't know what we can do about this, but more people should know!

To really top off a very varied post, I couldn't resist including the story of another crazy Tesla devotee (my dad is another)... Tesla, while a great physicist, was slightly troubled in that he used to vibrate buildings at the exact frequency that it took to make them collapse... He was also famous for the Tesla coil... A doctor in Western Australia has chosen to follow in his footsteps make electrical art, Tesla style. Warren has launched Tesla Downunder to showcase his artistc experiments which use up to 500000 volts from the mains, and a long exposure camera...

Thanks again for your votes!!

Labels: bees, chocolate, competition, environmentalism, honey, winner

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