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More Than Honey

Jan 2, 2014 | Go Courage, Ideas, Urban Farming |

More Than Honey is a documentary by Markus Imhoof who travelled to four continents in order to interview scientists and bee-keepers about having bee farms. “If bees were to disappear from the globe…mankind would have four years left to live.” These words, quoted in the film, could be prophetic: Bees are dying in record numbers, for reasons scientists don’t fully understand.

How our supermarkets would look like if all the bees died off?

Dec 3, 2013 | Food Crisis & Rescue, Go Action, Go Courage, Ideas, Urban Farming |

Many people may now know the importance of bees; however, they are currently the centre of attention of scientists and companies because of the decline in their population. You may think that it doesn’t concern you if their numbers continue to drop right? However, bees play an important part in agriculture, especially with the food you eat.

沒有蜜蜂下的超級市場⋯⋯

Dec 3, 2013 | Go 行動, Go 靈感, 創新意念, 城市耕作, 糧食危機及救援 @zh-hant |

也許很多人都聽說過蜜蜂的重要性，但蜜蜂數量下降是事實，這個事實近年來更成為科學家們的研究焦點。也許你會認為蜜蜂數量持續下降與你無關，但實情是，蜜蜂在農業生產中擔當著很重要的角色，這更是直接影響到我們的食物供應。

Who Killed the Bees?

Dec 1, 2013 | Food Crisis & Rescue, Go Action, Go Courage, Ideas, Urban Farming |

Because of the decrease in beehive population, in order to pollinate one California crop, almonds it would take 60% of the country’s beehive to do so. Worse, California almonds distributes to 80% of the country’s total almonds supply. Based on research and new studies conducted by scientist, a shocking new discovery has been found regarding the decline and drop in population of bee that pollinate $30 billion of USA’s crops.