Two solar farms in Minnesota were built on retired agricultural land, and instead of the gravel...

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Two solar farms in Minnesota were built on retired agricultural land, and instead of the gravel or mown turf that usually goes under panels

The ground was seeded with native wildflowers and prairie grasses. Researchers came back to the same test plots for five years and counted what flew and crawled past them. Insect abundance tripled. Native bees went up twentyfold. It's not that hard...

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Thevy29 · 41-45, M

Remember when we were 10 years from f#cked, due to climate change? Then the pandemic happened and after a month of us humans locked away, the earth renewed itself faster then anyone expected... Then we went right back to f#cking things up again... 😒

OhPuhleeze

I want to live there

JoyfulSilence · 51-55, M

Oxygen farm!

ninalanyon · 70-79, T

There are some solar farms that have sheep grazing between the rows. The sheep turn out healthier than in open fields because of the shade from the panels.

https://www.leravi.org/they-placed-1700-sheep-among-solar-panels-and-the-animals-unexpected-behavior-surprised-researchers-16255/

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