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By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 24 May 2010 03:22:07 +0000

Thanks for stopping by Anil. I will definitely look into what I can do to help spread the word – it’s a terrific initiative and I would like to do what I can to help.

By: anil gupta

anil gupta — Sun, 23 May 2010 21:16:25 +0000

dear Tim and Veronica
i really appreciate your comments and ideas,
hope through you honey bee network will connect with new friends who wish to recognise, respect and reward green grassroots innovators and trad knowledge holders . pl do visit sristi.org. nifindia.org gian.org techpedia.in and look forward to anmy contacts around your areas of influence who can help us share what we have and learn from what they have discovered
anil

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 23 May 2010 05:05:46 +0000

Thanks for the tip on this one Veronica – it’s a terrific talk! Translating this must be a fair bit of work – I saw the work you did on your blog with the Itay Talgum talk – another one of my favourites!

By: Verónica

Verónica — Sat, 22 May 2010 16:18:36 +0000

Hi Tim!
I’m glad you liked this talk!
It’s really very interesting
I think these words are very powerful:

“Minds on the margin are not marginal minds”

and I also liked the origin and essence of his idea, as he explained:

“one day , while coming back from the office towards home, it occurred to my mind, that if I could be like the honey bee, life would be wonderful.
What the honey bee does: it pollinates, takes nectar from the flower, pollinates another flower, cross-pollinates.
And when it takes the nectar, the flowers don’t feel shortchanged. In fact, they invite the honey bees through their colors. And the bees don’t keep all the honey for themselves.
These are the three guiding principles of the Honey Bee Network — that whenever we learn something from people it must be shared with them in their language. They must not remain anonymous”

Thanks and have a great weekend!
Vero
PD: this week I was working on this talks translation, so Spanish subtitle is already available!

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