Fleeing to Maine from Climate Disasters
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...
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...
Climate Change/Energy / Coastal Issues / Economics / Transportation/Travel
by Marina Schauffler · Published September 27, 2020 · Last modified November 9, 2020
We’re in one of the most active hurricane seasons ever recorded, with two months remaining. For only the second time, the 21 preselected names for storms ran out, leaving meteorologists to label the remainder...
Climate Change/Energy / Ecological Values / Economics / Pollution/Waste
by Marina Schauffler · Published August 30, 2020 · Last modified September 8, 2020
The coronavirus tragedy in the U.S. holds a potent lesson about governance: Facing crises without a strategic plan costs lives. The floundering on display in recent months – with conflicting federal guidance, states forced...
Economics / Food / Health / Slower Living / Sustainable Practices
by Marina Schauffler · Published May 7, 2020 · Last modified June 18, 2020
The current gardening boom has parallels to the widespread “War Gardens” and “Victory Gardens” grown during and after WWI, when the nation struggled with food shortages and the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed more...
Climate Change/Energy / Economics / Sense of Place / Sustainable Practices / Technology
by Marina Schauffler · Published December 5, 2019 · Last modified February 16, 2020
Ascending to his office in Pittsfield, Vaughan Woodruff treads on the same hardwood steps he walked as a third-grader in public school. Now the stately brick building houses several small businesses alongside the solar...
Climate Change/Energy / Economics / Housing / Sustainable Practices
by Marina Schauffler · Published November 25, 2019 · Last modified February 16, 2020
Winter’s descent returns us to a primordial quest, trying to hold heat – that eternal escape artist – within our homes. In Maine, nearly two-thirds of households depend on heating oil, more than in...
Climate Change/Energy / Ecological Values / Economics / Food / Health / Sustainable Practices
by Marina Schauffler · Published October 31, 2019
“We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot,” Leonardo da Vinci is said to have observed roughly five centuries ago. Sadly, that statement still holds, according to geologist...
Climate Change/Energy / Coastal Issues / Economics / Sustainable Practices / Technology
by Marina Schauffler · Published October 17, 2019
During Hurricane Sandy in 2012, Hoboken, New Jersey “literally became an island,” recalled its mayor at the time, Dawn Zimmer, during a recent talk she gave in Maine. The city was 80 percent submerged,...