Global Hive - What the Bee Crisis Teaches Us About Building a Sustainable World

Ecology and philosophy collide in this compelling book examining what the bee crisis means for our world.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
1 From Beuys to Bees
2 Honey Hunt
3 Domestication and What it Means
4 The Bee in All Bees
5 The Caged Queen
6 Enter: Varroa Destructor
7 Mites and Their Mission
8 Microscope and Mind
9 Mating Machinery
10 The Logic of Destruction
11 Macroscope
12 Goethe: The Apprentice of Nature
13 Compassionate Ecology
14 From Conscience to Compassion
15 Global Empathy
16 Beehive Metaphors
17 Bee Frames and Mind Frames
18 The Choreography of Care
19 Swarming Paradigms
20 Compassion Collapse Disorder
21 Imaginal Literacy
22 Global Hive
23 Ecolibrium
24 The Honey Doctrine
Afterword
Endnotes
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Horst Kornberger was born in Austria in 1959. He is a poet, artist, writer and lecturer. He has taught at the Rudolf Steiner College in California and now lives in Western Australia. He is the founder of the School of Integral Art where he pioneers creative, biographical and story writing. He is the author of The Power of Stories: Nurturing Children's Imagination and Consciousness.

Summary

This thought-provoking treatise explores the lack of joined-up thinking in our society, through the lens of the bee crisis and encourages us to think about how, through our own choices, we can build a more sustainable world.

Product details

• Authors: Horst Kornberger, Horst Komberger, Horst Kornberger, Kornberger Horst
• Publisher: Floris Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781782505693
• ISBN: 978-1-78250-569-3
• No. of pages: 144
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Beekeeping, NATURE / Animals / Insects & Spiders, Insects (entomology), Environmentalist thought & ideology, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Zoology: invertebrates