I am working with facilities managers, landscape gardeners and CSR managers to rewild rooftops, advise on trees, shrubs and flowers that feed bees and other pollinators year-round, and install bee hotels and other habitat for wild bees. Clients include Savills, BNP Paribas Real Estate, KPMG, Weil law firm and Lush cosmetics. https://urbanbees.co.uk/blog_1/?p=3488I also educate employees, clients, local communities and pupils about the pivotal role bees play in nature and how we can help them. https://urbanbees.co.uk/blog_1/?p=3174I am a member of the UK Government All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Bees and Pollinators advisory group.After a 20 year career as a full-time Guardian journalist, I am currently a part-time commissioning editor on the Guardian's Comment desk, and pursuing my bee passion by working for Urban Bees, the company I co-founded with my husband, Brian McCallum. We aim to help companies meet their biodiversity goals and social value targets by making cities more bee-friendly. Our best-selling book, A World Without Bees (2008), showed how we can't live without bees. Our latest book, The Good Bee (2019) showcases the 20,000 solitary and social bees that provide vital ecosystem services globally. Our books have been translated into five languages https://www.amazon.co.uk/Alison-Benjamin/e/B0034Q97HO/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1I also give talks, tours and write articles to raise awareness and appreciation of these lynchpins of our planet. And I produce a monthly Buzz newsletter www.buzz-newsletter.co.uk and Bees to See identification guide. https://www.instagram.com/p/CYL6O5boYsB/Bees provide nature-based solutions to some of our most pressing problems. By pollinating flora they improve air quality, prevent flooding, cool concrete and make cities more attractive places for people and wildlife to live. Cop26 showed how climate change and nature are intertwined. We can't tackle one without restoring the other. I have written about how the Covid lockdown reawakened an appreciation of nature among many city dwellers and its potential to improve wellbeing. https://www.theguardian.com/profile/alisonbenjaminUrban Bees can build on this interest for the benefit of bees, people, and companies too.Call Alison on + 44 (0)788 4054150Email: alison@urbanbees.co.uk
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