How the public gives back to environmental causes and conservation groups.
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Maine Voices: At the crossroads of ethics and the environment
The values of caring for the environment are the same as caring for our families and neighbors.
Commentary: Gov. LePage misinforms public in push to end land trust tax exemptions
About 95% of the land is already on the tax rolls, and the fiscal impact of taxing the others would be negligible.
Another View: Portland’s students, schools set example for sustainability
Trash reduction is in everyone’s best interest.
Brad Burns of Falmouth angles for return of striper abundance
A passionate fisherman, he leads Stripers Forever, a conservation group that pushes to end commercial fishing of striped bass.
Schools get poor grade for effort to minimize amount of trash
Hand dryers, washable or compostable food trays and recycling paper would be good first steps.
Author Elizabeth Hand goes to dark places
How climate change informs a writer’s life
Another View: Columnist Dill ignores dangers of consuming processed foods
Real cereal, not the artificially colored sugary kind, is good for you and for the planet. We should eat that.
A look back at when the Kennebec River crested – and a look ahead
With climate conditions changing, experts can’t say when the next great flood will happen – only that it will.
Somerset County’s Big Six forest faces a big financial deadline
A private landowner wants big money in easements to not cut the maple trees down.