<div dir="ltr">Haagen-Dazs uses honey in some of its ice cream and has worked with the Pollinator Partnership. The company has provided more than a million dollars for bee research. You can read more about it here: <a href="http://www.haagendazs.us/learn/honeybees/">http://www.haagendazs.us/learn/honeybees/</a> or just google it for additional articles.<div>
<br></div><div>Olivia</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>Olivia Kwong<u></u><u></u></b></p>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Robert Layton Beyfuss <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rlb14@cornell.edu" target="_blank">rlb14@cornell.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<b>Burt’s Bees Lip Balm</b> and <b>Häagen Dazs</b> ice cream – perfect pollinated products to cap Pollinator Week in the Capitol,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546a"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Kwong, Olivia<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 20, 2014 3:33 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:native-plants@lists.plantconservation.org" target="_blank">native-plants@lists.plantconservation.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [PCA] NEWS: White House Announces Presidential Memorandum for Pollinators<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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From: <b>Tom Van Arsdall</b> <<a href="mailto:tva@pollinator.org" target="_blank">tva@pollinator.org</a>><br>
Date: Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:40 PM<br>
Subject: [Pollinator] White House Announces Presidential Memorandum for Pollinators<br>
To: <a href="mailto:pollinator@nappc.org" target="_blank">pollinator@nappc.org</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">June 20, 2014</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For Immediate Release</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Tom Van Arsdall
<a href="mailto:TVA@pollinator.org" target="_blank">TVA@pollinator.org</a> 703.509.4746</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Laurie
Davies Adams <a href="mailto:LDA@pollinator.org" target="_blank">LDA@pollinator.org</a> 415.362.1137</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Pollinator Week 2014 Culminates in Presidential Memorandum</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Leaders across the Nation Mobilize for Pollinators</span></i><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
<b>White House</b> today announced the first comprehensive pollinator initiative ever created across the federal government. This morning
<b>President Barrack Obama</b> signed a <b>Presidential</b> <b>Memorandum</b> to bring federal actions to the pollinator issue that will provide increased collaboration, solid science, practical management, and essential research goals. The Presidential Memorandum
works within existing budgets, and through coordinated efforts has the potential to increase efficiencies and effectiveness. The
<b>Pollinator Partnership </b>acted as a resource to the White House for many months as the White House Executive Office brought stakeholders together and canvassed federal departments and agencies. Among the directives in the memorandum are actions increasing
forage on federal lands, assessing the effects of pesticides including neonicotinoids, including native seeds in post-fire restoration, landscaping federal facilities for pollinators, educating the public about pollinators, and more. All details are at
<a href="http://pollinator.org/PR_whitehouse.htm" target="_blank">http://pollinator.org/PR_whitehouse.htm</a>.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For the Pollinator Partnership, the memorandum is the result of a nearly 20-year campaign to increase awareness and action for pollinators
and marks a new dawn of wise land management across the country. The Presidential Memorandum is a first for comprehensive terrestrial conservation and for pollinators – it demonstrates real leadership on the part of the President and his science team. Importantly,
President Obama is joined in supporting pollinators by the bi-partisan list of <b>
45 governors</b> who have signed proclamations for <b>National Pollinator Week</b> supported by millions of constituents across the country who care about this issue.
<b>Pollinator Partnership’s Executive Director</b>, <b>Laurie Davies Adams</b>, noted “This Presidential action shows visionary leadership and offers practical measures that will help pollinators now; it is a triumph for people, plants and pollinators.”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Details about the Presidential Memorandum are being shared today at a Pollinator Briefing in Washington, DC organized by the Pollinator
Partnership in collaboration with the <b>Congressional Pollinator Protection Caucus (CP2C)</b> headed by of
<b>Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) </b>and <b>Rep. Jeff Denham (R-CA), co-chairs </b>of
<b>CP2C. </b>The briefing (3 PM, 1310 Longworth House Office Building) features<b> Dr. Anne Kinsinger, US Geological Survey, Earl Stewart, U.S. Forest Service
</b>and<b> </b>Laurie Davies Adams,<b> </b>discussing the Presidential Memorandum and public-private efforts to support pollinators. Adams introduced the newly-formed
<b>Business for Bees</b>, a collaboration to support pollinators that brings “business know-how” to cooperative conservation and includes
<b>Toyota North America, the Boeing Company, General Mills, Greif, Burt’s Bees, </b>
among others. See <a href="http://pollinator.org/bizforbees.htm" target="_blank">
http://pollinator.org/bizforbees.htm</a> for details.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Also discussed at the briefing will be the
<b>Highways BEE Act </b>(<a href="http://www.pollinator.org/BEEAct.htm" target="_blank">www.pollinator.org/BEEAct.htm</a>), introduced by Reps. Denham and Hastings will be discussed. The briefing will connect hundreds of Congressional staff members and help
them understand and recognize the importance of pollinators to our world. They will hear first-hand about the efforts that the federal government has planned.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">There will be an informational break following the Congressional Briefing featuring
<b>Burt’s Bees Lip Balm</b> and <b>Häagen Dazs</b> ice cream – perfect pollinated products to cap Pollinator Week in the Capitol, where the nation’s leaders are responding to the needs of pollinators with comprehensive and meaningful actions.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Pollinator Week</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> has grown exponentially in scope each year since its
inception in 2007. This year, <b>U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, and 45 governors</b> designated June 16-22 through proclamations—the most ever—as a week to celebrate and protect the nation’s pollinating
animals. A<b> </b>complete list and scanned versions of the proclamations are available at
<a href="http://pollinator.org/npw_events.htm" target="_blank">http://pollinator.org/npw_events.htm</a>). “It is really satisfying to see how many individuals in every state got involved in this project,” commented<b> Kelly Rourke</b> of the
<b>Pollinator Partnership</b>, who coordinated the campaign to engage states. </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Pollinators, like bees, butterflies, birds and other animals, bring us one in every three bites of food and maintain our environment.
Pollinators are responsible for about $16 billion in U.S. agricultural production and world-wide human food production at $190 billion. Pollinators form the underpinning of a healthy and sustainable future for food and the environment, but have shown disturbing
signs of decline. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Efforts during Pollinator Week, and indeed year-round, are working to reverse and prevent pollinator declines.
<b> Sunny Boyd</b>, of the <b>Pollinator Partnership </b>remarked “Our steady drumbeat through the years has brought understanding and commitment across the country on a local as well as a national level. Pollinator Week helps to increase the discussion of
all the issues, from community beekeeping regulations to the elimination of the impacts of pesticides on pollinators.”
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">ABOUT THE POLLINATOR PARTNERSHIP (P2)</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Established in 1997, the Pollinator Partnership is the largest 501(c) 3 non-profit organization dedicated exclusively to the health,
protection, and conservation of all pollinating animals. Pollinator Partnership’s actions for pollinators include education, conservation, restoration, policy, and research. P2’s financial support comes through grants, gifts, memberships and donations from
any interested party. Its policies are science-based, set by its board of directors, and never influenced by any donor. To make a donation, or for information on events during Pollinator Week, visit
<a href="http://www.pollinator.org" target="_blank">www.pollinator.org</a>. </span>
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<a href="http://www.pollinator.org/" target="_blank">Pollinator Partnership</a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Cell: (703) 509-4746<u></u><u></u></p>
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<a href="http://tva@pollinator.org" target="_blank">tva@pollinator.org</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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