{"id":974,"date":"2014-08-07T18:23:45","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T17:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/?p=974"},"modified":"2018-08-21T10:16:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T09:16:15","slug":"tedx-and-river-of-flowers-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/?p=974","title":{"rendered":"Tedx and River of Flowers video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch this delightful animation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PBZqkOANHAM\">video<\/a> from River of Flowers which explains why we need more wild flowers in our towns and cities.<\/p>\n<p>This was the theme of a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tedxwarwick.com\/talks\/\"> Tedx talk<em>,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fjallravenkankenoutlet.me.uk\/fjallraven-kanken-mini.html\"> Mini <\/a> the Urban Buzz,<\/em> <\/a> that Urban Bees gave recently at Warwick University.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone who supplied photos for the talk who I wasn&#8217;t able to credit. They include River of Flowers,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alter48.fr\/-mercurial.html\"> mercurial<\/a> (urban meadow in Hackney,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xavy.fr\/-air--thea.html\"> <\/a> east London,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alter48.fr\/air--1-og.html\"> 1 og<\/a> and the tree pit planted with flowers);  Melissa Cooper&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/outwalkingthedog.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Out Walking the Dog<\/a> blog which tracks nature in NYC and captured that greedy squirrel; Matthew Cohen of <a href=\"http:\/\/mattedesignphotos.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">mattedesignphotos.com<\/a> who took the fantastic photo of Vivian Wang with the Empire State in the background; and Silvia at <a href=\"http:\/\/globalgeneration.org.uk\/honey-club\">Global Generation<\/a> for her great photos of young beekeepers in the Skip Garden on the King&#8217;s Cross development site.<\/p>\n<div>The pioneer of conservation in the US John Muir sums up what my talk is all about.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>&#8220;When one tugs at a single thing in nature,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alter48.fr\/air--thea-pas-cher.html\"> <\/a> he finds it attached to the rest of the world.&#8221;<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thanks to illustrator <a href=\"http:\/\/daniellecallaghan.com\/\">Danielle Callagham<\/a> for including the quote in her beautiful book The plight of the honey bee and for <a href=\"http:\/\/lga-ap.com\/bio?p=janna.levitt\">Jana Levitt, at LGA Architects in Toronto<\/a>,  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch this delightful animation video from River of Flowers which explains why we need more wild flowers in our towns and cities. This was the theme of a Tedx talk, Mini the Urban Buzz, that Urban Bees gave recently at Warwick University. Thanks to everyone who supplied photos for the talk who I wasn&#8217;t able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}