r/UpliftingNews • u/ArgentineBeauty • 4h ago

Two Minnesota solar farms planted native grasses and wildflowers beneath their panels. Five years later, flowering plant species had increased sevenfold, native bee numbers more than 20 fold and total insect numbers had tripled, while more bees were also visiting nearby soybean fields.

https://www.ecoticias.com/en/two-minnesota-solar-farms-turned-the-ground-beneath-their-panels-into-habitat-and-native-bee-abundance-rose-more-than-20-fold/36680/
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u/Ryan_e3p 3h ago

Too much work for the average person. Tell them to just stop mowing. Telling people they can do more by actually doing less is how to win over the masses.

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u/Great_Definition_531 3h ago

It’s not too much work. I bought a hundred native plants at a local sale this spring and they are thriving and covered in pollinators. Learn to prep a site (not hard) and look for these programs in spring. Easy.

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u/OrphanGrounderBaby 2h ago

See but then you have people that are deathly allergic to pollinators. I’ll probably be downvoted but my wife would die in minutes if stung, just another POV

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u/geldhahn 2h ago

It's a valuable take, honestly. There are adverse effects to almost(?) anything humans do on a large enough scale.

I wouldn't have taken the covid vaccine, if I knew beforehand how mich it will fuck with me. However, it doesn't diminish the utility of said measure for the population as a whole. Same thing applies to planting wildflowers.