Elon Musk has also pledged $100 million for researchers who can show how to take huge volumes of carbon dioxide straight from the atmosphere and store it permanently.
environment
Toast the 2021 Source Award winners with a homemade concoction
And take a moment to reflect on how to cook and eat more sustainably, starting by exercising that muscle that reduces food waste.
Carrie Mayo: Sustainability begins at home (and work, and around town)
From beach cleanups to energy-saving tips to community composting, the York resident is working for the environment in myriad ways.
Heather McCargo: Launching a counterattack against invasive species
The Wild Seed Project founder is dedicated to returning native species and biodiversity to Maine’s landscape.
Letter from the Source editor
The pandemic has commanded our attention so much over the past year that it has been hard to have any energy left over (renewable or otherwise) to worry about the grave environmental problems we face, let alone to try to fix them. That’s the story for me, anyway, but as we paged through the nearly […]
Partners for World Health: A second life for unused medical supplies
The Portland nonprofit collects supplies discarded by hospitals and ships them worldwide to others that desperately need them – and reduces medical waste that would otherwise end up in the trash.
Andy Burt: A lifelong advocate, and she’s not done yet
Grassroots work on a new environmental rights bill and making films about climate justice are the latest – but not last – efforts in the Edgecomb woman’s lifetime of advocacy.
Committee votes to give DEP more power to clean up ‘forever chemicals’
Maine’s 2 U.S. senators, meanwhile, are asking the Biden administration to allow states to use federal stimulus money to address PFAS contamination.
Mills seeks more federal support, action on ‘forever chemicals’
In a letter to Maine’s congressional delegation, Gov. Janet Mills wrote that PFAS contamination is ‘a national problem that ultimately requires a federal response.’
Mills commits state agencies to ‘lead by example’ in climate change fight
The governor said the state will follow a new report’s blueprint for making government operations more climate-friendly.