Looks like planting bee gardens is the next thing for the granola - get - touch- with - the -earth 
crowd. 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118428490685465247.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

I think its great, kinda like a carbon offset. People indirectly plow under farm land or wild land for a 
house and now they give some square footage of ground back to the pollinators. 

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