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Urban Apiaries: All Abuzz About Rooftop Beekeeping
February 26th, 2011

Via Clean Energy Lease, a short article on urban beekeeping:

Buzz around town is that beekeeping is going towards a micro level. With bee health declining, competition from overseas production, and more, bee keepers are going through a challenging time. Wherever there is agriculture produced, bees have a role in pollination. Without healthy bees, agriculture suffers. With the advent of urban agriculture on the rise, there are more and more beekeepers looking at the approach of urban farmers to search for rooftops, open lots, and land acreage closer to populations to host bee hives. This reduces the extremely high carbon footprint involved in current bee production, pollinates the urban farms, and more. New York recently became very bee friendly, and rooftop bee production is allowed.

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Educated at Yale University (Bachelor of Arts - History) and Harvard (Master in Public Policy - International Development), Monty Simus has held a lifelong interest in environmental and conservation issues, primarily as they relate to freshwater scarcity, renewable energy, and national park policy. Working from a water-scarce base in Las Vegas with his wife and son, he is the founder of Water Politics, an organization dedicated to the identification and analysis of geopolitical water issues arising from the world’s growing and vast water deficits, and is also a co-founder of SmartMarkets, an eco-preneurial venture that applies web 2.0 technology and online social networking innovations to motivate energy & water conservation. He previously worked for an independent power producer in Central Asia; co-authored an article appearing in the Summer 2010 issue of the Tulane Environmental Law Journal, titled: “The Water Ethic: The Inexorable Birth Of A Certain Alienable Right”; and authored an article appearing in the inaugural issue of Johns Hopkins University's Global Water Magazine in July 2010 titled: “H2Own: The Water Ethic and an Equitable Market for the Exchange of Individual Water Efficiency Credits.”

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