Create a Thriving Backyard Community
See your yard as habitat, not lawn. Landscape planners encourage us to visualize the area around our homes in terms of rooms that act as external living spaces. If we extend this idea, going...
Author: Marina Schauffler
Getting a Grip on Climate Change
A recent UN climate change report and a National Climate Assessment did garner headlines, but no Maine media covered a related paper from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) entitled What...
The True Cost of Plastic
When we buy takeout food, we know we’re paying a price for convenience – trading extra money for the time we save. What we pay at the register, though, does not begin to account...
