Bowdoin College has announced it is being recognized for its sustainability efforts by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) in the organization’s 2021 Sustainable Campus Index, which highlights innovative and high-impact initiatives from colleges and universities based on data collected from AASHE’s Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System (STARS) report […]

  For many years the Penobscot Paddle and Chowder Society has held its annual fall supper and outdoor festival on Mount Desert Island over a three-day October weekend. Chowderheads were back again this year. The adventure menu consisted of hiking, biking, sea kayaking, canoe racing, and various other escapades. While many of us arrived the […]

At a recent dinner party, my host launched into a monologue about a plant he had discovered in his garden and was delighted with. It had, he said, green leaves (what a clue!) and large, yellow flowers. What he found most remarkable was that it appeared all by itself in his somewhat wild, somewhat shady […]

Above, Bath Middle School 6th graders collect creatures from a pond at Chewonki. Bath Middle School has a history of collaboration with Chewonki, a Midcoast nonprofit that began as a summer camp and now includes its own school and slate of environmental educations programs. For the past six years, thanks to funding from Region School […]