WANTED: Grants, investors, advisors, green roof space, and partners - To start a "B-Corporation"* in Queens, NYC, based on products from local beekeepers and beehives.
*"Benefit Corporation" benefits the triple bottom line = society + environment + stakeholders
Contact: queensapiary@gmail.co
Press:
Queens Apiary Blog:
http://queensapiary.wordpress.com
T-shirt Fundraiser:
http://www.booster.com/queensapiary
Queens Apiary Goals:
- Create better society and environment through innovations in sustainable beekeeping, urban farming (permaculture), off-grid living, net-zero (energy self-sufficient) buildings, manufacturing, distribution, and waste management.
- Create benefit not just for the shareholders, but bees, people, workers, society, and the environment. "What's good for bees is good for people."
- Follow best practices and beyond in sustainability, diversity, equality, and food justice.
- Proactively hire people with disabilities.
- Create a workplace that is a "calling" and a place of growth and development.
- Aim for zero waste, zero carbon footprint.
- Stop the widening gap between 1% and 99%.
- Promote urban farming and permaculture.
​- Help eliminate GMO's, synthetic pesticides and non-organic/mono-crop agriculture by 2020.
What is a B-Corporation?
Queens Apiary is a project initially funded via Kickstarter.com:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kamitera/honey-made-in-queens-nyc-queens-apiary-and-green-r
Featured in a Documentary on Urban Beekeeping:
