The Maine lobster catch has carried the Marine Stewardship Council’s blue-and-white ‘eco-label’ for years, but a legal case will result in the certification being suspended.
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Posted inFood, Green Plate Special, Recipes
Green Plate Special: Your used wine corks can be transformed into useful new products
Locally, two places will accept them, from individuals and businesses, so they can be reused.
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Posted inSouth Portland Sentry, Southern Maine Weeklies
South Portland celebrates completion of solar array
The solar farm is expected to save taxpayers more than $20 million over 40 years and eliminate about 4,100 tons of carbon pollution every year for the next four decades.
Posted inAmerican Journal, Forecaster Opinion, Lakes Region Weekly
Sustainably Speaking: As holiday shopping begins, consider the planet
Growing up in rural Argentina, our family hardly ever went shopping. My father had been raised in the same solid brick house where my six siblings and I grew up. The land around it was forested with eucalyptus, willow and poplar. To the east, wheat and sunflower fields bloomed in the spring. From our open […]
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Green Plate Special: A new app helps prevent waste at small local food businesses
Meanwhile, app users score some terrific food at bargain prices.
Posted inScarborough Leader, Southern Maine Weeklies
Sustainable development discussed at Scarborough town workshop
The town council held a workshop with members from the Sustainability Committee and Conservation Commission.
Posted inSouth Portland Sentry, Southern Maine Weeklies
South Portland sustainability director receives leadership award
Julie Rosenbach, along with Portland Sustainability Coordinator Troy Moon, are recipients of NRCM’s 2022 Conservation Leadership Award.
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For lobster industry, the threat is clear. The adversary is murkier.
Criticism of the lobstering industry has become contentious, and it can be hard to figure out who’s who.
Posted inAmerican Journal, Forecaster Opinion, Lakes Region Weekly
Sustainably Speaking: Oyster farming is farming for our future
Oyster farming appealed to me for many reasons, chief among them how inherently sustainable growing oysters for food is. Sea farming is often tucked under the larger “fisheries” umbrella because we go to work on the sea in boats and come back with food to sell. But there are big differences between the work of […]
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Bath, Brunswick residents can build window inserts
Residents and volunteers will come together to build insulating window inserts from Oct. 31 to Nov. 4, when Bath will host its annual Community Build at the Bath Freight Shed. Brunswick will hold its event Oct. 23-29 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. The deadline to order window inserts in Bath is Oct. 17, and those […]