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Next time you hit the post office for stamps, check out these beauties with a message about sustainability.

Issued Aug. 3, these stamps are dubbed the Protect Pollinators Forever series, the stamps depict monarch butterflies and the western honeybee hard at work pollinating a variety of plants native to North America, including goldenrod, the coneflower and a New England aster.

“Bees, butterflies and other pollinators sustain our ecosystem and are a vital natural resource,” said U.S. Postal Service Judicial Officer Gary Shapiro. “They are being threatened, and we must protect them.” We’d happily wait in line for these stamps.

Mary Pols writes primarily about sustainability for Source. She came to the Press Herald in late 2013 to work on Source after a long career writing about movies. She has almost, but not quite, broken the...

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