A growing awareness of the benefits of composting is paying dividends beyond those found in the healthy produce and beautiful flowers compost can help create. Students at Saco Middle School (and many other schools around Maine), through hands-on learning, are discovering the multiple benefits of composting. In addition to the obvious benefits you can taste, Read More
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A College in Maine That Tackles Climate Change, One Class at a Time
by Diane Cardwell New York Times news story BAR HARBOR, Me. — Like many residents of this picturesque island town on the edge of Acadia National Park, Zach Soares had trouble keeping his house warm, going through five cords of wood in the winter. So he jumped at an offer last year for free energy Read More
Madison Wins Big at Wind Challenge
By Doug Harlow, Staff Writer Kennebec Journal news story MADISON — Students jokingly call it The Floating Beast; a scale-model, floating offshore wind-turbine platform. But it was no joke recently when the model — and the four Madison high school students who developed it — took the overall top award in the Windstorm Challenge 2012 at Read More
