<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.5726" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"
bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document
face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=765 border=0>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD><IMG height=10 alt="" width=1 border=0></TD></TR>
<TR vAlign=top>
<TD><BR>
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0>
<TBODY>
<TR vAlign=top>
<TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
size=1>01/13/09<BR><B>Honey Bee Pollination Crisis: Can Native Bees
Take up the Slack?</B><BR><BR><B>Claire Kremen</B>, Conservation
Ecologist, UC Berkeley; 2007 MacArthur Honoree<BR><BR>Monoculture
farming leaves us highly dependent on honey bees, whose pollination
affects 75 percent of fruits and vegetables and 30 percent of all
food production. However, managed hives are being wiped out by
colony collapse disorder at an alarming rate. Kremen will discuss
how wild bees can boost the effectiveness of managed hives and play
a critical role in pollinating the crops that keep California's
economy humming.<BR><BR><B>MLF: ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL
RESOURCES<BR>Location:</B> Club Office<BR><B>Time:</B> 5:30 p.m.
reception, <B>6 p.m. program</B><BR><B>Cost:</B> $8 members, $15
non-members<BR><B>Program Organizer:</B> Carol
DiBenedetto<BR><BR><FONT size=+1><A
title=https://tickets.commonwealthclub.org/open.asp?show=985
href="https://tickets.commonwealthclub.org/open.asp?show=985"
target=_blank>Get tickets
now!</A></FONT></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 face="Gill Sans MT" size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="10"><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>Laurie Davies Adams<BR>Executive
Director<BR><B>Pollinator Partnership </B><BR>423 Washington Street, 5th
floor<BR>San Francisco, CA
94111<BR>415-362-1137<BR>LDA@pollinator.org</FONT><FONT lang=0 face=Arial
color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0
face="Gill Sans MT" color=#0000ff size=4 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="14"><B><A
href="http://www.pollinator.org/">www.pollinator.org</A></B></FONT><FONT lang=0
face="Gill Sans MT" color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="10"></B><BR><A
href="http://www.nappc.org/">www.nappc.org</A><BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0
face="Gill Sans MT" color=#000000 size=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="12"><B><I>National Pollinator Week is June 22-28, 2009. <BR>Beecome
involved at <A
href="http://www.pollinator.org/">www.pollinator.org</A></I></FONT></B></DIV></FONT><BR><BR><BR><DIV CLASS="aol_ad_footer" ID="58e0499d1ada5623ecdddc234077e686"><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">One site keeps you connected to all your email: AOL Mail, Gmail, and Yahoo Mail. <a href="http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000025">Try it now</a>.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>