The citizen volunteer from Portland engages everyone from fellow residents to U.S. senators to build support for reducing carbon pollution.
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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.
A note of gratitude for Karen Voci and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation
From Lisa DeSisto, publisher of the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram.
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.
Read about the three 2021 recipients of MOFGA’s Russell Libby Scholarships
The face of farming in Maine: Three young women cherish the soil, their state and the planet.
Tom Klak: Rescue mission to save the American chestnut
The University of New England professor is working in the lab, woodlots and communities to try to develop a blight-resistant American chestnut tree.