#Burlington Bees

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you wouldn't believe your knees

if 5 million trailered bees...

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Burlington residents waking up on August 30th 2023 to find that 5 million bees are on the loose

me remembering summer 2020 when everyone was worried about killer bees

[thesoftboiledegg]

Did you think we were done with the merchandise roundup? Nope--yesterday's post was only the beginning.

Months ago, I ran into a guy at the mall who said that he found his Rick and Morty T-shirt at Burlington Coat Factory. My area doesn't have one, but I was in a different city that had a location and decided to stop by.

That turned out to be a smart decision because I found these items on the racks:

I spotted a couple of nearby head shops on Google Maps, so I dropped by the first one, which was awkwardly placed near an intersection. But the Rick and Morty pipes near the entrance made the effort worthwhile.

When the owner saw me taking pictures, she said I can take photos of anything and share them online. That was a good reaction to have. I've gotten in trouble a couple of times before 😬 One store accused me of sticking something in my purse (it was my phone), and another politely said they don't allow pictures.

But that wasn't the case this time. The owner was delightful and gave me free bottled water and snacks, plus a free $10 item after I bought CBD gummies.

Pickle Rick had his own tray:

Silicone is all the rage.

Head shops always have a few miscellaneous Rick and Morty items. I'm not weed-savvy enough to know how to use these.

Hey look, Bender's getting blasted!

The other head shop in the area had some decent pipes. I LOVE the bee design. Don't know where it came from, but it's becoming a smoke shop staple.

I see that the world hasn't forgotten about the Joker. Zombie Rick and Morty lurk in the back.

A couple of rolling trays. Rick's looking a little short and stocky in that first one.

Pickle Rick also looks different. Maybe this guy is Cucumber Rick.

For the record, smoke shops (and stores in general) have more merchandise that I don't photograph. They just have a lot of overlap, so I try not to share the same items more than once.

Stay fresh, everybody!

[20th-century-railroading]

EMD GRADUATES by Roger Bee Via Flickr: Lurking on the roundhouse whiskers at Minneapolis Junction on the Burlington Northern on New Years Day 1973 are diesels from an earlier era. Both now Burlington Northern engines and destined for the paint booth for a coat of green and white; GP7 1535 ex Great Northern is in its original colors was constructed in May of 1951. Ex Northern Pacific GP9 number 1942 a 1958 graduate of EMD also is in its original colors. 

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from The New Yorker:

We pulled off the two-lane highway and onto a short farm road, and then got out at an access gate along a wire fence that enclosed an eleven-acre field of solar panels. The reason we were there is that three years ago, when Encore Renewable Energy—a Burlington-based developer of solar arrays—set up the panels, it contracted with a nonprofit that the Kiernans started, called Bee the Change, to seed pollinator-attracting plants that are native to the area in the rows between them. The organization’s small crew tends more than twenty fields like this across the state, weeding and, at least once a year, mowing what they have planted so that it doesn’t grow so high it shades the panels. Most of the attention to “agrivoltaics”—use of one piece of land for both farming and for producing solar energy—has gone to more common agricultural practices, such as letting sheep graze between the panels. But at least fifteen states, including big players like Illinois, maintain solar-pollinator scorecards, which are used as accountability measures in the solar-development community. The theory is that we face two crises—climate change and the rapid loss of biodiversity—and that the same patch of land might be used to address them both.

The approach seems to be working. When the Kiernans are hired by a solar developer, it’s usually to plant on what was until recently a farm field; “the farmer has decided to take a dozen acres” and lease them to solar companies “to get a guaranteed income,” Mike said. Because the fields are typically monoculture and have been treated with pesticides for years, “the pollinator density is really low.” Mike uses a pollinator-counting method that involves walking on the margin of a field and counting unique pollinators for seven and a half minutes. Then a random-number generator tells him which row of solar panels to walk along, and as he walks he counts the pollinators he sees in seven and a half minutes, then adds the two numbers together. “On those abandoned farm fields, we might get a count of forty or fifty in fifteen minutes,” Mike said. “But now, once we’ve done our thing, you can see ten at a glance. You can see three hundred in fifteen minutes. You see a lot of them even this late in summer, during what we call a ‘dearth period.’ Wait till next month, when the asters come in!”

As the nonprofit’s name implies, their first tools were honeybees; they installed hives in solar fields. But, the more they learned about biodiversity, the more they wondered whether this strategy was actually the best for the environment. Honeybees are domesticated and are so persistent and numerous—more than thirty thousand can live in one hive—that, in Mike’s words, they “can put too much harvesting pressure” on the plants. There may not be enough nectar left behind for all the wild pollinators, a complication that spells peril not just for them but for the plants they’re particularly adapted to. “There are more than three hundred and fifty native bee species in Vermont,” Tawnya said. So they stopped placing hives and started installing native plants that attract wild bees.

“In New England, you’re often looking at five-megawatt projects, which means maybe twenty-five acres,” Farrell told me when we spoke by phone earlier this month. “We’re at four or five per cent of our electricity coming from solar now in this country. In order to hit the President’s target of forty-five per cent of our electricity by 2050, we have to grow. And that means we have to deliver the most visually appealing, environmentally responsible projects possible.” In 2020, his company pledged to build all their projects with some form of agrivoltaics. In many cases, that’s sheep grazing. “Not goats,” he said. “Goats will try to eat the wires between the panels, and also to jump up on the panels, which is not good for either one.” Sheep, though, appreciate the shade that the panels provide and are “some of the best asset managers we have in the business, mowing the grass for us. They do their job exceptionally well, and all they want is forage and water, which we can give them.”

Pollinators are even easier animals, though—once the plants have established themselves, they don’t need more than an occasional mow. “We think solar is a good neighbor,” Farrell said. “It’s clean, it’s quiet, and if it increases pollinators it’s helping the whole community.” And so—at a moment when new fossil-fuel-funded schemes are reportedly spreading disinformation about renewable-energy programs—“it can help reduce the friction. It can lower the hurdles to get over, which of course translates into dollars and cents.”

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[celineszoges]

Where have all the flowers gone .. just short time ago ... Pollinator-named sports teams will proudly give back by funding for their animal namesake brands and the environment with habitat protection, climate action, herbicide and pesticide management, education and awareness ... Together united win the Game of Earth. Pollinators, we will we will we will Save you!

Bee the change for pollinators 

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[lifebyday]

september 20, 2023.

we might be on the cusp of fall, but flowers are still blooming and bees are still buzzing. burlington, vt.

[20th-century-railroading]

KINGMAN AT ITS BEST by Roger Bee Via Flickr: One of Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s newest high horsepower diesels is west bound in curvy Kingman Canyon near Kingman, Arizona on 04-02-1996. This EMD SD75I is just a few months old and is in Santa Fe Warbonnet colors lettered for BNSF.