Sustainability Awareness Week 2020: FIT Hives

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Sustainability Awareness Week 2020: FIT Hives
Contributor Names
Sparrow, Michele
Langenbach, Sarah
Braun, Mylea
Date
2020-10-09
Description
Sustainability is a key component of FIT's mission and is embedded in the college's curriculum and operations. During virtual Sustainability Awareness Week, from October 5 to 9, 2020, we invited our community to learn about recent innovations from leaders in the industry, experience FIT's efforts to make a positive impact on the earth, and discover new ways to live with a smaller footprint.
Take a look inside FIT's residence honeybee hives and learn more about the importance of honeybees, with FIT alumnae Michele Sparrow and Sarah Langenbach. Filmed by FIT student Mylea Braun (2023)
After presenting their idea at the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U), a team of students installed beehives on an FIT roof. The Honeybee Conservancy, a nonprofit that supports bee populations, has helped maintain them.
FIT's hives have become part of a "pollinator corridor" that includes Madison Square Park, the Flower District, and the High Line, plant-rich areas that offer good foraging areas for bees. The FIT Hives project contributes to the effort to support the bee population in New York City, and serves as an educational tool, as well.
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Moving Image
Subject
Sustainability
Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.)
Beehives
Honeybee
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This video was produced by the Fashion Institute of Technology ("FIT") and is the property of FIT. FIT expressly prohibits the copying, displaying, or uploading to a website of any portion of this video, except for the purposes of fair use as defined in the copyright laws, without express written permission from FIT. This video has been made available online by the Fashion Institute of Technology Gladys Marcus Library strictly for research and educational purposes. If you are the copyright holder for content in this video and have any objections to this work being made available online, please notify us immediately at [email protected].
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FIT Repository ID: aod_000868

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Fashion Institute of Technology. (2020, October 9). Sustainability Awareness Week 2020: FIT Hives [Video]. Archive on Demand. https://archiveondemand.fitnyc.edu/item/23569
Fashion Institute of Technology. "Sustainability Awareness Week 2020: FIT Hives." Archive on Demand, 9 Oct. 2020, https://archiveondemand.fitnyc.edu/item/23569
Fashion Institute of Technology, "Sustainability Awareness Week 2020: FIT Hives," Archive on Demand, October 9, 2020, video, https://archiveondemand.fitnyc.edu/item/23569