Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soybeans
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Two Minnesota solar farms planted 66 native species under their panels. Five years of counting revealed a staggering result that nobody had written into the engineering plan.

then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour’s soybeans

  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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    14 days ago

    frankly at this point i wouldn’t be surprised if part of it is literally that it would make people think “oh, things can be better, maybe we should make more things better”.