Honeybees, human health AND the future of humanity James Fearnley, Department of Environment and Geography
Event details
Wentworth College Lecture
James has spent 35 years studying the medicinal properties of propolis, a natural antibiotic produced by bees.
He has come to realise that honeybees are more important to human beings than most of us think. James believes that his BeeArc project: The Nature of the Future - a £5 million project seeking planning permission in the North York Moors National Park can help all of us to explore and better understand the multiple crises we now face as human beings socially environmentally, economically and culturally.
About the speaker
James Fearnley is a serial social and economic entrepreneur having found his real identity in the student revolution of 1968. Now in his 80th year he can look back on an involvement with home schooling, home births, self-sufficiency, green politics, alternative energy, young people, smallholding, ethical and responsible business, people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour, natural health, community health and community living. He has published two books and over 40 peer review papers on medicines from the beehive. He has been a Pigman, Potter, Criminologist, Consumer Researcher, Green Campaigner and creator of many social, cultural and economic enterprises. He is a poet and a passionate exponent of a world beyond our reason. Recently he started a PhD at York exploring ways in which human beings can evolve out of the multiple social environmental and economic crises we now face.
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