Is the modern economic system broken? These urban beekeepers think so – and this is their solution

The Guardian reports the following. ENC is republishing it as an attributed briefing, not as independently confirmed fact. If this item is false or incomplete, the responsibility sits with The Guardian, which released it. At Bybi in Copenhagen, a dedicated group of staff and volunteers have built a community for all centred on the production of honey – much of which is given away for nothing. Could it be replicated elsewhere? The bees at Bybi, a collective of beekeepers in Copenhagen , live on the roof. Their home is a complex of Victorian buildings, right in the centre of the city, that looks like an idealised vision of the modern social enterprise, ennobled by the architecture of the past. It’s a place of cottage industry in concert with nature, where the marginalised are brought in from the fringes and corporations stand waiting to help, where jobs happen but a lot of the work is done by volunteers, and where – this bit is important – a lot of time is spent discussing ideas. Oliver Maxwell, Bybi’s 48-ye… Original link: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/oct/14/is-the-modern-economic-system-broken-these-urban-beekeepers-think-so-and-this-is-their-solution