[ ]…you can at least make your landscaping into a bee buffet. Start by avoiding flowering plants that were bred for showy features, such as sunflowers or tulips. Instead focus on a wide variety of native plants that blossom in succession, rather than one plant that blooms all at once. This provides a more constant supply of reliable food for the bees. Also keep in mind that good housing is hard to find for bees, so consider providing some options such as a specially designed bee house (check your local wild bird store or garden supply) or a bare patch for bees that prefer nesting in burrows.
Two others things to consider is stop using pesticides outside or use very sparingly. The other is to start a bee colony apiculture (beekeeping). The last requires some time and money like a kit from Betterbee. Mr. Päster reminds us that nearly half of the U.S. bee colonies have collasped. If this trend continues the cost to our food supply and the environment would have a tremendous cost. The food plants that we rely on bees to pollinate for free would have to be pollinated by hand or some new technology – the cost of which would be prohibitive. The none food plants would probably just die off.
New Jersey Grants Rights to Build a Wind Farm About 20 Miles Offshore
The proposal by Garden State Offshore Energy includes the installation of 96 turbines to produce as much as 346 megawatts of electricity, enough to power tens of thousands of houses, starting in 2013. The turbines would be arranged in a rectangle about a half-mile long by one-third of a mile wide and would be placed 16 to 20 miles off the coast of New Jersey’s Atlantic and Ocean Counties, much farther out and in much deeper water than other proposed wind farms.
Wind Towers from a distance P.S.E.G. Renewable Generation
The ability to put the turbines so far out undercuts the opposition some people had to the structures being an environmental eyesore. The company expects the towers to take about seven years to yield enough energy to reach the break even point in profitability.
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