![Planning Commission Work](https://www.evebratman.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Eve-City-Planning-470x140.jpg)
I served on the Lancaster City Planning Commission from January 2017 – May 2021. During my time as Chair of the commission (2019-2021) we issued…
![Climate Change Response(abilities)](https://www.evebratman.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
What is our responsibility to future generations? How does local self-determination, national security, energy demand, and conservation of biological and natural resources interface with the…
![Saving the Stingless Bees (Melipona beecheii)](https://www.evebratman.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Figure-2-3-murals-470x140.jpg)
I show how indigenous, feminist and inter-generational approaches of inter-species care have been key to an effort to bring stingless beekeeping back from the brink…
![Winter Update](https://www.evebratman.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Somehow I missed sending you all holiday cards from the Beeyonce and the Bee-Girls with their life updates. I apologize. 2011 was a busy year…
![Round II](https://www.evebratman.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Hello fellow bee nerds! I am really looking forward to our peer lead bee keeping workshops, beginning next Tuesday (5:00-7:00 at SIS, American University)! Here…
![Brooklyn's Foremost Beekeeper interviewed](https://www.evebratman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/full_1319585048Meg_450x624-72ppi1.jpg)
Brooklyn’s leading beekeeper, Meg Paska, gives the straight dirt on how she pays her bills as an urban beekeeper. It’s not through running around checking…
![Honey Laundering](https://www.evebratman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/phpThumb_generated_thumbnail.jpeg)
Great investigative reporting on Asian honey, flooding the market in the U.S.The stuff is banned in Europe, because of the considerable amount of contaminants (lead,…
![Post Irene Update](https://www.evebratman.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Bee-yonce and her honey bees ( the hive on top of the SIS building ) have survived the storm! They seemed a little irritated today,…
![Assorted Wonderful Bee Stories](https://www.evebratman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/full_1313715398_d634848ef7_z.jpg)
I have gotten this terrific article about beekeeping at O’Hare Airport in Chicago about three times in the last week or two, so by now…