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Chrissy Adamowicz, Sustainable Maine Outreach Coordinator

As our Sustainable Maine Outreach Coordinator, Chrissy helps communities create policies that are supportive of sustainable living behaviors that protect Maine’s environment. She gives presentations, provides information, and creates materials for our website as a way to engage concerned citizens. Prior to working at NRCM, Chrissy promoted sustainability in Androscoggin County through healthy eating and active living initiatives. She has a bachelor’s degree in Ecology and Environmental Science and a master’s degree in Sustainable Communities. Chrissy enjoys the outdoors, travel, art, and daydreaming of car-free communities.

Maine School Cafeterias Reducing Plastic Pollution and Waste

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We are all familiar with the challenges of using plastic cutlery. These utensils notoriously fail at the only task they are made for: cutting and picking up food. In addition, they create a lot of single-use trash, are not recyclable, and there are reusable options. In recent years, schools have brought plastic cutlery into lunchrooms. Read More

Maine State Prison Growing Food

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Inmates are growing gardens, and gardens are growing them. Gardens offer so many metaphors for the ups and downs of life, and the inmates at Maine State Prison are getting the chance to experience them first hand. In a partnership with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, a new gardening program gives some inmates the Read More