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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
We’re All in This Together: Climate Solutions Beyond Your Backyard By Kristen Caldwell I was part of a delegation lobbying our representatives in Washington, D.C. last November and the... Read more
As the climate emergency intensifies, inaction costs us tens of billions of dollars annually. And current emissions are far beyond what the planet can bear to support life. So how do we… Mov... Read more
DEALING WITH CLIMATE ANGST AND ANGER The Doomsday clock just advanced to 100 seconds before midnight – the closest we have ever been to utter disaster. Helplessness is a common response to s... Read more
By Tony Zeli Youth from all across Maine gathered at polling stations on Super Tuesday, March 3rd, to remind voters that while the youth cannot yet vote, the people at the polls can, and the... Read more
My name is Riley Stevenson and I am a junior at Lincoln Academy. Throughout the past year, I have become increasingly worried about climate change and distressed by the lack of action by my... Read more
The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth super-highway on which we progress with great speed, but at the end lies disaster. The other fork in the road – the one “le... Read more
By Adolphe Wakana A native of Burundi in Central Africa, I moved to Portland three years ago. Like many others, I am a direct witness of the indisputable impacts of climate change over the p... Read more
Letter to the Editor MAKING MAINE CLEAN There are thousands of facts and statistics proving the urgency and greatness of the problem we are facing now and will be facing for a long time. Cli... Read more
Thousands in Portland Take Part in Global Climate Strike
by Adam Marletta Nearly 2,000 protesters converged on City Hall on Sept. 20 to demand action to combat climate...