Here's a fact you need to staple to your head: 70% of crops worldwide rely on bees. Yup, so that tomato is in your BLT, and it needs bees. That avocado that's about to be inedible needs bees. But with their increased mortality rates, your neighbour spraying toxins in the form of mosquitos being gone, and pesticides flooding the planet, these poor bees - who only make a teaspoon of honey in their entire short lifespan, are experiencing whole colony collapse. Without pollinators, we have no crops.

Beekeepers and farmers are facing increased financial strains, which makes it much harder to feed a growing global population—which, by the way, we need and are running out of food.

Enter Itai Kanot, the Co-founder and Chief Growth Officer at BeeHero, a technology company focused on precision pollination services to improve crop yields. He's a beekeeper, and he was part of his father's beekeeping business, Boaz Kanot Bees & Honey. He has been around bees (and stung by bees) since he was five years old.

Itai was on track to take over the family bee business, but his father gave him some good advice: Get out there and see what you want to do. So he did. Itai shares his story from beekeeper to entrepreneur and how he and his co-founders have created sensors for hives that help beekeepers understand what's happening in the hive through temperature, humidity, and even the nervousness of the queen.

Today, BeeHero and Itai are on a mission to help growers pollinate their crops with bees and ensure we all have a food future!

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Soil isn't sexy. Even Martha Stewart, in her new commercial for organic soil from Miracle Grow, is out stumping for soil, calling herself a 'dirt nerd.' Good for you, Martha. But while Martha is making our backyard soil healthier, we need to think about making the food that grows our food healthier.

Soil has a microbiome. And here's one for trivia night: there are more soil microorganisms in a teaspoon of healthy soil than there are people on the Earth. Sadly, our soil is dying; it's a non-renewable resource, and healthy, well-managed soil can take carbon out of the atmosphere.

Meet Kathryn Radovan, Co-founder and Senior vice president of business operations at Terra Vera. Terra Vera created an amino acid that uses nature to treat and fertilize soils. Terra Vera is a first-of-its-kind agriculture technology company using an amino acid platform to prevent crop loss and safely improve crop quality. Let's not forget about the bees. Their new company, ApiVera, is going to help commercial beekeepers in so many ways—and if the bees are healthy and happy, so are our crops!

Kathryn talks about the importance of creating sustainable agriculture, how the best discoveries can lead to a new way of thinking, and how her time growing up around the wetlands of Florida changed her perspective on the world.

Check out their upcoming crowdfunding campaign to help the bees: Indiegogo Pre-Launch (Coming soon!)

ApiVera by Terra Vera

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On this show, we dive into a topic that people either love or hate: Needles. Needles aren't new to the world—50,000 years ago, they found evidence of bird bone needles. Needles went from bones to metal to plastic over decades. In the 1960s, the US military gave vaccine needle-free injections with high-powered compression. But it wasn't simple. You had to stand still while the compression gun was applied as the technician pulled the trigger.

Now, consider this: imagine all the waste that plastic needles make: the needle, the syringe, the little plastic coffin it lives in, and the latex gloves needed for each injection. Try Googling the cost of a needle's lifecycle, and you won't be able to find it. Medical waste is a global problem. Earth.org reported that the COVID-19 pandemic was a public health crisis and an environmental crisis. An estimated eight million metric tons of plastics enter the ocean annually. According to a WHO report, the medical waste accumulated during the pandemic increased plastic pollution in the oceans tenfold.

Our guest, Lea Milovich, CEO and co-founder of Flowbeams, knows we can do better and says it's time for a new way to inject micro fluids—needle-free injection using lasers. Lea shares her journey from business innovator to CEO, her never-ending curiosity, and her desire to ensure great technology gets out into the marketplace.

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