Baker Design Consultants will conduct a climate resiliency analysis on three town landings: Garrison Cove boat launch on Bailey Island in Harpswell, Sabino Landing in West Bath, and Acre Lot Wharf in Phippsburg.
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One year in, Maine’s climate plan moving forward, fueled by unexpected federal windfall
Gov. Mills marked the occasion by announcing new initiatives to help towns and cities help meet the Maine Climate Council’s plan and her goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 45% by 2030.
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UMaine-Farmington’s Sustainable Campus Coalition celebrates 20th anniversary
The Sustainable Campus Coalition, founded in 2001, is “an organization of students, faculty, staff and community members” working to reduce the campus’s “environmental impact” and educate the community on sustainability.
Posted inMaine
Ten coastal communities band together to defend against flooding from climate change
The towns will invest up to a half million dollars to develop a defense system against coastal flooding.
Posted inThe Franklin Journal
UMaine-Farmington students block road to protest town’s fossil-fuel emissions
Four University of Maine at Farmington students blocked off Main Street, one of Farmington’s busier roads and thoroughfares, to protest climate change and the town’s fossil fuel emissions. The sit-in ended when police intervened after 15 minutes. The sit-in raised discussion between participants, bystanders and other local activists about the most impactful ways to protest and instigate change.
Posted inNation / World
California wildfires this year torched thousands of giant sequoia trees
Intense fires that burned hot enough and high enough to kill so many giant sequoias – trees once considered nearly fire-proof – puts an exclamation point on the impact of climate change.
Posted inBusiness, Nation / World
Coming off climate talks, U.S. to hold huge crude sale in Gulf
President Biden campaigned on vows to end drilling on public land and waters, but the leases mean production could go past 2030, when scientists say the world needs to cut greenhouse gas emissions to avoid a climate catastrophe.
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Frustration, defiance in village to be abandoned to the sea
Residents of a small coastal village in north Wales face becoming the U.K.’s first ‘climate refugees.’
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Foundations commit billions to fight climate change
Global warming is an area many think philanthropy has neglected.
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Serious about climate change? Get serious about peat.
These waterlogged, acidic, low-nutrient ecosystems are the most carbon-dense lands on Earth.