Bill McKibben speaks with Tawnya and Mike Kiernan about their company, Bee the Change, and how solar panels and pollinators can have an advantageous relationship.
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.
of Green Mountain Power, who has been described in these pages before, was an early supporter of the program. “And maybe the most important cheeseburger I had in my life,” Mike said, was a decade ago when he met with Chad Farrell, the founder and co-C.E.O. of Encore Renewable Energy, which deploys medium-scale solar arrays—not rooftop solar, but not the sprawling fields in the Western states, either.
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