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eco-friendly communities

 -- Quote of the Day --  "Charisma is not so much getting people to like you as getting people to like themselves when you're around." ~ Robert Brault  -- Positive News --  Kudos to 3 amazing cities within the US (Asheville, NC, Talent, OR, and Carrboro, NC ) who have  joined a program known as " Bee City, USA " http://ejus.tc/1t63f9Q To join this program, communities must create and instigate policies that help protect and restore bee colonies . Some of these policies might include promoting native bee-friendly plants to create habitat and food for them. Other policies might look at encouraging eco-friendly farming, organic gardens, creation of green space and installing specially designed gardens in public spaces from parks to school yards.  Creating these spaces is not enough - there must be education as well. Therefore cities will need to pla...