Maine
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Obama creates whole new national monument to celebrate National Park System’s 100th birthday
Adding to the 265 million acres he's protected in his administration.
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Critical List: Lucy Lawless occupies oil ship; Maine fisherman catches child-sized lobster
Lucy Lawless, best known for her role as Xena, Warrior Princess, teamed up with Greenpeace to occupy an oil drilling ship. The panel on Morning Joe posited that environmentalists think the alternative to fossil fuel is granola. (In case this wasn’t clear already, everyone on Morning Joe is a jerk.) A Pew Research Center poll […]
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Critical List: Connecting climate change to the Texas heat wave; ditching plastic straws
Climate scientist James Hansen says he can prove that climate change caused the Texas heat wave. Maine fishermen caught more lobster last year than ever before. Wave and tidal energy could provide enough electricity to meet 15 percent of current demand in the United States. In London, plastic straws are the new plastic bags. No […]
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Maine bans LEED in state buildings at timber industry’s behest
The pristine wilderness of Maine would make anyone feel more in touch with the environment … unless you're a politician and vested interests with tons of money put pressure on you to undermine green programs like LEED and you cave. That's the short version of what happened earlier this month. For a while, Maine was […]
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Might and Maine: One state brings renewable power back to the people
Maine citizens are taking renewable power into their own hands.Photo: Matthew David PowellAs the Durban climate talks come to a disappointing (if predictable) close, Politico takes a look at prospects for federal action on energy issues and breaks the news that with a deadlocked Congress — in a presidential election year — no one should […]
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Experiment in (e)co-habitation gets the green light
It looks like a hippie commune. It smells like a hippie commune. But the Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage is not a hippie commune!
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Living off the grid: SUPER FUN
You know that fantasy you have where you move to Maine, go off the grid, and raise your children to know what nature and good old American values are like? Well, one family is living that fantasy, and writing about it for The New York Times.
All summer, Craig and Susannah Hopkins Leisher have been living with their three sons in a cabin in the Maine woods.
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Critical List: Climategate scientist cleared; Halliburton exec drinks fracking fluid
The National Science Foundation found Michael Mann, a scientist at the center of Climategate, did nothing wrong. You don’t say.
Ford and Toyota are going to be working together on technology for hybrid trucks and SUVs.
Apparently Michele Bachmann wants to the United States to become an Iran-like state where oil is government-subsidized. How else to explain her continued, irrational insistence that gas will be $2 per gallon during her presidency? -
Natural gas, war of words
Citizens blocked a proposal to build a liquefied natural gas terminal on tribal land in Maine, but the battle isn't over yet.