🎙️ How can nature and humans thrive in cities together?

Alex McLean, started beekeeping at 15 and it’s taken him around the world and into business as Co-Founder and CEO at Alveole, a turnkey urban beekeeping company.

Alex negotiates partnerships with commercial real estate across North America and Europe; one of his main challenges is translating the need for nature alongside us in cities for the people who have the power to improve the urban environment for all city dwellers.

In this tenth episode of The More the Brainier, Alex receives advice from: 

🔹 Cindy Gallop, Founder & CEO, MakeLoveNotPorn; and

🔹 Mara Sandoval, Head of Event Design and Interaction, World Economic Forum

Together, they address his burning question: How do I make people care about nature being an integral part of the city? 

Covered in this episode

• Alveole and its mission
• Urban beekeeping 101
• How do we get people to care about nature in cities?
• Moments of awe
• What do bees represent?
• The transformation of Singapore
• Nature as privilege
• Normalising nature
• Outreach to children
• Edible cities
• The link between nature, health and wellbeing
• Storytelling as a tool to bring nature to children
• The power of gardening
• Potential for radical improvement with urban planning
• Bottom-up change limitations
• When top down models for change are necessary
• How can everybody benefit?

Today’s guests:

• Alex McLean, (Main guest); Cindy Gallop; Mara Sandoval

Host: Christine Renaud, Braindate

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This episode of The More the Brainier was produced by Christine Renaud and Jane Gibb. Editing and sound engineering by Jenya Sverlov and Chris Leon.