Pollinator Habitats with Brandon Reynolds, Founder of B the Keeper

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B the Keeper provides residential and corporate landscaping services to create habitats for pollinators using native plants. Creating landscapes with native, pollinator-friendly plants is an important part of preserving bee, butterfly, and other pollinator populations that are critical to the stability of our food supply chain and air quality.

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Want to know how to succeed at New Year’s Resolutions?

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Don’t make any. There…I said it. And it feels good to even say that out loud!! Let alone walk into 2021 without any resolutions on my brain. And you betcha…if you don’t make any, you won’t fail!

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Environmental & Sustainability Good News You May Have Missed in 2020

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Welcome back to the Hive for our last video installment of 2020. From kicking off the year with unprecedented wildfires in Australia to a global pandemic to fights for racial equality, contentious elections, worsening effects of climate change around the world, and now closing it out as the COVID19 pandemic continues to take lives and hold our lives hostage, we won’t be sorry to see the last of 2020. And while there’s no doubt it hasn’t been easy to look on the bright side, we wanted to share with you just a few of the environmental and sustainability successes of a year that might seem anything but successful.

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Countdown with the Hive to a New Year

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Let’s take a look back on 2020 with a mind toward what we will accomplish together in 2021!

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The problem with Greenwashing, and how to spot it

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You’ve probably noticed the sudden abundance of products which are eco-friendly, environmentally friendly, green, biodegradable, sustainable, natural, sourced sustainably, recycled, recyclable, compostable, and so on and so forth. There’s an exhausting list of terms which could be

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Keeping it Sustainable This Holiday Season, The Top Ten

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We hope your holiday season is off to a great start and you’ve taken a moment to enjoy the gorgeous lights, décor, and changing seasons around you. If 2020 has taught us anything, taking time to appreciate and be grateful for the little things and, more substantially, the people in our lives and what truly makes us happy is more important than ever. And with that in mind, today we’re going to get into some tips for how to get through this holiday season more thoughtfully and more sustainably.

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Damn, We Need New Methods For Surface Water Management: Dams Have Served Their Term

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The first engineers of dams were beavers, who gnawed on trees and gathered vegetation to build these ecosystem structures. Who would have thought we could learn something about surface water management from semi-aquatic rodents? Today, there are

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Natural Resources: What is the Earth Running Out Of?

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Today, we’re talking about resources. Specifically, non-renewable resources or finite resources which cannot be readily replaced by natural means at a quick enough pace to keep up with our current rates of consumption.

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