Agricoltura, Noah Wilson-Rich: Every city needs healthy honey bees
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Bees have been rapidly and mysteriously disappearing from rural areas, with grave implications for agriculture. But bees seem to flourish in urban environments — and cities need their help, too. Noah Wilson-Rich suggests that urban beekeeping might play a role in revitalizing both a city and a species.
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Jeez. we could at least put solar panels on the roofs of skyscrapers
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how was a talk this good only receive 1.2k view sigh sigh though a cost analysis for a individual would have been nice to see
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Noah you are a very engaging speaker. I'm going to ask my colleague at work who keeps bees in his garden about doing it myself.
Bees have been rapidly and mysteriously disappearing from rural areas, with grave implications for agriculture. But bees seem to flourish in urban environments — and cities need their help, too. Noah Wilson-Rich suggests that urban beekeeping might play a role in revitalizing both a city and a species. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more. Find closed captions and translated subtitles in many languages at http://www.ted.com/translate Follow TED news on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tednews Like TED on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector
Also, keeping bees in an urban environment is not a solution. You will get more toxic particles in honey because of car pollution. This has been showed on tomatoes kept on balconies in a big city, it won't be any different for honey. And why do we need bees? To produce honey and pollinate crops. We don't have that many crops in the cities that require lots of pollination (are you planning on planting canola on a roof? I'd like to see that). What about honey production? Will you bee able to produce different kinds of honey in the city? Will you produce enough? What about pollution?
No, all those solutions you are talking about are not enough. I like the idea of putting a few hives and crops in the city, it's nice for a scientist to study that and you are a very good speaker, but your talks give the impression that putting bees in the cities and feeding them proteins and probiotics is the main solution. Consider comparing the number of hives inside the cities (and the maximum hive capacity of cities) and the number of hives in rural areas. I don't think your projects are relevant.