8 bee-friendly ways to celebrate with your honey this Valentine’s Day
With populations dropping at a startling rate, Environment Colorado offers ways to celebrate your loved one, help bees thrive.
Save the bees
Updates on our work to save the bees - from asking Amazon to stop selling bee-killing pesticides to sharing bee-friendly garden tips - and how you can help.
Bees play a crucial role in our lives. But as our society uses more pesticides, their populations are plummeting. Fortunately, we know how to help them: protecting already-existing bee habitat, expanding habitat by planting pollinator-friendly plants in our own gardens and on public lands, and ending the worst uses of the pesticides that are killing them. Together, we can save the bees.
The Latest on Save the bees
Five types of urban habitat for bees and butterflies
How to make our cities a home for bees, butterflies and other pollinators
Updates
Conservation funding could be a big win for bees
Trick or Seed builds support for protecting pollinators, reducing pesticides
Making seed balls to support pollinators and pumpkins at Bee Hugger Farm
Featured Resources
Guide to planting a pollinator-friendly garden
Green infrastructure funding can help cities save the bees
The buzz about coffee and bees
Did You Know?
Around the world, 75% of all food crops and a full 90% of all wild flowering plants rely on bees for pollination.
Learn more about the ways our world relies on bees.
The Latest
Trick or Seed: Students distribute pollinator-friendly seed balls and build support to eliminate pesticides
As bee populations drop, CU-Boulder students work to eliminate the consumer sale of bee-killing pesticides like neonics.
Boulder businesses join call to support pollinators
Support bloomed for our Save the Bees campaign as our CU-Boulder student team canvassed Boulder businesses
Pollinator photo petitioning creates a buzz on campus
Environment Colorado's CU-Boulder team got over 150 people to join our call to Save the Bees.
Save the bees & go solar
Designing pollinator friendly habitats into solar farms offers a win-win.
Showing gratitude for bees this Thanksgiving
Many Thanksgiving favorites wouldn’t be the same without bees
Team
Blackledge
Steve
Blackledge
Senior Director, Conservation America Campaign, Environment America
Rakov
Susan
Rakov
Managing Director, Frontier Group; Senior Vice President, The Public Interest Network