As described in our last column, much of the clothing now available in stores is cheaply produced, and we often buy it frequently to keep up with quickly evolving styles. This fast-fashion trend wastes our money while needlessly draining resources, increasing environmental pollution, and straining landfills. Slow fashion is a more sustainable approach to dressing […]
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Sustainable Practice: Garbage-free households
More than half of the garbage we’re currently burying in landfills or burning — all food scraps, paper, cardboard, yard trimmings and wood, we can sustainably compost instead. You are, therefore, making progress in your household on the pathway to sustainability when you collect compostable materials, actually compost them, and keep all organic waste out […]
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Library launches plastic collection project
Staff of the Dyer Library/Saco Museum are calling for help from the community to reach a goal of collecting 1,000 pounds of plastic bags in a sustainability project. The group has launched Trex Challenge to collect bags that would otherwise go into landfills and waterways. If they collect 1,000 pounds within a year, the organization […]
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Sustainable Scarborough Day to feature electric vehicle test drives
The electric vehicle test drive course will be closer to the main events and bigger than before on Oct. 6.
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Sustainable Living: What is slow fashion, anyway?
Do you repair your clothing so you can continue wearing it or wear a stylish coat your aunt no longer wanted? If so, you are a part of the trend toward “slow fashion,” just like U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree. Earlier this summer, Pingree joined a group of colleagues to establish the Congressional Slow Fashion Caucus. […]
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Maine hospitals launch green initiatives to offset high energy use
The changes at Northern Light Health and MaineHealth include discontinuing certain anesthetic gases and pivoting to renewable heating sources.
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Local condos give residents more control over how their grass grows
Anticipating a pesticide ordinance, town arborists and local condominiums make changes.
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Brunswick eyes ordinance to restrict pesticides
Brunswick residents, inspired by a recent water conservation and ‘rewilding’ law, are pushing for a pesticide ordinance.
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Sustainable Practice: Our sustainable future
Growing up in the 1970s, the year 2000 was far in the future. It seemed not only possible but likely that we’d have a lunar base and sentient robots as depicted in “2001: A Space Odyssey.” But by the end of the aughts, the decade after the world held its breath to see if Y2K […]
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Scarborough residents can help document sea level rise
The town of Scarborough and the Gulf of Maine Research Institute are hosting a Coastal Meetup and Community Science Event later this month to teach residents how to document local changes.