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Every city needs healthy honey bees - Noah Wilson-Rich

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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. (Filmed at TEDxBoston.)

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HOW MANY ACRES DOES A SINGLE BEEHIVE NEED? A HIVE WILL FORAGE AN ARE UP TO 8000 ACRES. IT DEPENDS ON THE AREA, YOU CAN KEEP AROUND 20 HIVES IN ONE PLACE.

FIVE THOUSAND TONS OF WATER-ICE DELIVERED TO CISLUMAR SPACE PER TWO -YEAR MISSION! IN A RECENT ANNOUNCEMENT, TRANSASTRA CORPORATION PROPOSED A SPACECECRAFT ABLE TO ACHIEVE THIS. THEY CALL IT THE QUEEN BEE, A NEW PART OF THE ASTEROID PROVIDED IN- SITU SUPPLIES

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