Environmental Writer
Ecological Values / Food / Health / Sense of Place
by Marina Schauffler · Published March 13, 2022 · Last modified April 3, 2022
Maine farmers are resourceful and resilient, but nothing could have prepared them for this invisible and insidious disaster. “We are… the human collateral of PFAS-contaminated biosolids,” observed organic farmer Nell Finnegan of Albion, casualties...
Climate Change/Energy / Ecological Values / Health / Sustainable Practices / Technology
by Marina Schauffler · Published February 27, 2022 · Last modified March 29, 2022
After five years enduring a rain of toxic hairs from browntail moth caterpillars, Sally Donelson is ready for a novel solution. She has to suit up at her family’s lakefront camp in Litchfield —...
Climate Change/Energy / Economics / Health / Pollution/Waste / Sustainable Practices
by Marina Schauffler · Published December 5, 2021 · Last modified March 30, 2022
The plastic industry could soon surpass coal in greenhouse gas emissions. Yet, its growing climate impact is largely unnoticed. Plastic is ubiquitous, filling stores, overtopping landfills and littering shorelines. It’s even within us,...
Ecological Values / Health / Pollution/Waste / Sense of Place / Sustainable Practices
by Marina Schauffler · Published April 18, 2021 · Last modified June 5, 2021
In timber operations, like this one in Allagash, herbicides are typically applied after clearcutting to kill emergent hardwood species and foster growth of planted forests. Photo by Hilton Hafford. At a public hearing...
Climate Change/Energy / Economics / Health / Pollution/Waste / Technology
by Marina Schauffler · Published March 7, 2021 · Last modified April 15, 2021
Amid a torrent of public comments at a recent Rockland City Council meeting to discuss a proposed Midcoast natural gas pipeline, a teenager’s honest expression of bewilderment stood out: “I am surprised by this...
Climate Change/Energy / Ecological Values / Education/Family / Health / Pollution/Waste / Sustainable Practices
by Marina Schauffler · Published January 10, 2021 · Last modified January 25, 2021
I can’t recall reading a book I so wanted to recommend to others as the new climate anthology, edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson, “All We Can Save: Truth, Courage and...
Climate Change/Energy / Economics / Health / Housing
by Marina Schauffler · Published October 11, 2020 · Last modified November 9, 2020
What do you do when the place you call home becomes unlivable? Tens of millions of Americans will face this wrenching choice over the coming decades as they contend with climate-fueled disasters such as...
Ecological Values / Health / Pollution/Waste / Sustainable Practices
by Marina Schauffler · Published June 18, 2020
Braxton Winston, an at-large member of the Charlotte, N.C., City Council, vividly recalls his first encounter with tear gas at a peaceful protest four years ago. “Struggling to breathe. Skin burning. Vomiting. Trying to...
