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By Bob McKillop Bob McKillop is a CCL volunteer living in Portland, Maine. Any business planning to operate over the next twenty-five to seventy-five years will be dealing with the impacts o... Read more
Absolutely, pandemics and climate change are connected! And the evidence is strong. As the planet heats up, animals big and small head toward the poles to get out of the heat. During this mi... Read more
RACIAL JUSTICE IS CLIMATE JUSTICE Few people see the connection between climate justice and racial justice, but one cannot exist without the other. Before there is a successful transition to... Read more
We’re All in This TogetherClimate Solutions Beyond Your Backyard Lobbying (Virtually) for Carbon Reduction By Don Parent Forty years have passed since I studied the mechanics of climate chan... Read more
We’re All in this Together Climate Solutions Beyond Your Backyard Frontlines of the Climate Crisis By Susana Hancock 197 billion tons of ice melted from Greenland last summer. Kiribati... Read more
Protect Portland’s Trees NOTE: The West End recently experienced three significant multiple mature tree cuttings. Due to this tree loss, a group of West Enders has worked closely with the Ci... Read more
We’re All in This TogetherClimate Solutions Beyond Your Backyard CRISIS LESSONS By Peter Dugas As the world grapples with the Covid-19 pandemic and its devastating economic impacts, another... Read more
A NEW NORMAL With attention focused on Covid-19, health threats posed by climate change remain unchanged and existential. By continuing to burn fossil fuels, coming decades could experience... Read more
With COVID19 increasingly threatening industrial food supply chains, we need to consider other options for feeding ourselves. The Victory Gardens of WW II come to mind. Consider: the U.S. ha... Read more
We’re All in This TogetherClimate Solutions Beyond Your Backyard YOUR OWN CLIMATE SOLUTION SIMULATOR By Tamara Risser What if you woke up one day to find that all the fossil fuel powered car... Read more
