Nice post. It would read easier if you put in a few paragraph breaks.
I hadn't heard that about possible connection between honeybee problems and cell phones, wifi etc. I'll have to look for more about it, but I think the answer (as usual) is both/and. That is it isn't just the cell phones, or just the multitude of herbicides and pesticides they are exposed to, or just the mites and diseases that are thriving more in warmer climate, or just the fact that in warmer winters they use up their food too fast or just that they are being trucked around all the time, but the combination of all of these and probably others that we don't know about, adding up to an overwhelming number of abuses and insults.
And yes, all of these things affect human beings as well as bees, just perhaps not as fast.
It always feels good to hear about the good things that individuals and towns are doing, but as a species we are not learning nearly quickly enough the necessity to protect the earth systems. And pretty much all our efforts are being overwhelmed by population growth. If you could cut the per capita use of resources and production of CO2 and other pollutants in HALF (not a goal anyone even thinks about), but the population doubles, you have accomplished nothing. World population was 4 billion in 1974, 6 billion in 1999, 7 billion in 2011, 8 billion in maybe 7 or 8 years from now ....
But all each of us can do is do the best we can to lower our footprint on the earth and work to develop projects that help others do the same. The most important thing any one person can do is have no more than one child. I know people don't like to hear that, but no amount of living simply can make up for all the resources/pollution that will be used by your children and their children. And this is very much more true for Americans than others, since our children use so much more than their fair share:
A child born in the United States will create thirteen times as much ecological damage over the course of his or her lifetime than a child born in Brazil ... the average American will drain as many resources as 35 natives of India and consume 53 times more goods and services than someone from China.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... ion-habits
I asked the city over the phone for one of the "green" dumpsters. A few days later it was there. It gets emptied, I'm not sure by whom. I can start with my block until everyone has two. That's something at least. Maybe start some community gardens. I've noticed that the nicer a neighborhood looks, the less people tend to just toss trash on the streets. There's still a few but I've had less problems since I put a trash can at the edge of my property. I work hard on my yard & every morning there seemed to b the random soda bottle or snickers wrapper tossed in my yard. Rather than patrol for offenders( I thought about it!) I simply provided an alternative to littering. IMHO mankind needs to dial it back a bit. There was less crime, also, in the good old days when successful was being able to put n a long days work & were happy if they could provide for their families & having a home with workable land to leave to their children. No one wanted, rather, aspired for $100 million. Pardon the rant but I love this site for the fact that I can get in touch with my inner tree hugger! With fellow earth loving loons.