Independent Writer
Education/Family / Sustainable Practices
by Marina Schauffler · Published April 3, 2016 · Last modified June 12, 2016
“… Creativity must, in the last analysis, be seen not as something happening within a person but in the relationships within a system.” — Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi, Creativity Innovation is critical to achieving sustainability, making...
Education/Family / Health / Sustainable Practices / Technology
by Marina Schauffler · Published March 20, 2016 · Last modified June 12, 2016
When the topic of cellphone safety arises, common responses harken back to grade school – stopping just short of the fingers-over-ears intonation “I can’t HEAR you!” Our addiction to these captivating devices is not...
Climate Change/Energy / Ecological Values / Economics
by Marina Schauffler · Published March 6, 2016 · Last modified June 12, 2016
“Is it really possible to be bored by the end of the world?” This question, in the opening minutes of Avi Lewis’s film This Changes Everything, reveals the paradox at the core of the...
Education/Family / Sustainable Practices
by Marina Schauffler · Published February 14, 2016 · Last modified June 12, 2016
When the editor of Source invited a column for this sustainable weddings issue, I confess that my reply was flippant: “Can’t people just elope?” In terms of low environmental impact, a courthouse wedding is...
Economics / Food / Sustainable Practices
by Marina Schauffler · Published February 7, 2016 · Last modified June 12, 2016
The Press Herald recently reported that Maine residents spend a third more on food than the national average. This was not news for those of us tallying up grocery bills. We live daily with...
Economics / Sustainable Practices
by Marina Schauffler · Published January 24, 2016 · Last modified June 12, 2016
When a gas pump rejected my credit card, I assumed its card reader was broken. Later that afternoon, another store clerk returned my card unused and told me, “It may be shut down for...
Climate Change/Energy / Education/Family / Sustainable Practices
by Marina Schauffler · Published January 10, 2016 · Last modified June 12, 2016
Portland teacher Gus Goodwin has more than two decades of classroom experience, but recently students caught him by surprise. He was swept up in what he calls a “very powerful experience, one of the...
Climate Change/Energy / Food / Health / Sustainable Practices
by Marina Schauffler · Published December 27, 2015 · Last modified June 12, 2016
Lose weight. Exercise daily. Save more. It’s that time of year when holiday to-do lists morph into new year’s resolutions. Self-improvement goals are worthy, but it’s time to think bigger. Fortunately, there’s a resolution...
