With a rising cost of living, everyone wants to know how to save energy these days. Kill A Watt meters can help people better understand where electricity is being used – and wasted – in their homes.
Rivers, streams, and wetlands in Maine are classified as AA, A, B, or C depending on the goal for the waters use. AA is the highest class and C the lowest. All classifications meet the requirements of fishable, swimmable set by the Federal Clean Water Act. But do all the waters live up to their goal?
Folks of a certain age will remember cartoons like” Pepe le Peu” and “Bugs Bunny”, in which enticing smells were represented by solid, animated ribbons that drew the characters up and forward as if possessing both mind and body.
Do you believe that one simple gesture can have a lasting effect on the whole? Zachary Montgomery does.
A slow-moving, murky stream flows through a shady forest. The water is shallow and warm, so you go wading, and a leech gets stuck to your foot.
Every now and then you hear that a school or business was evacuated because of a “hazardous” chemical spill. Occasionally, we read about a newly discovered “toxic” waste site.
Get past its egghead name, didymo (Didymosphenia geminata), or its more colorful nom de guerre, rock snot, and you encounter one of the newest threats to Maine’s environment.
While processing work search logs for the Unemployment Office over the weekend, I noticed there were quite a few people who did not seem to understand what information this form was asking of them or how to actually use this form to record their work search efforts.
My 4-year-old son helped me mow the lawn last weekend. Wait! Before you start regaling me with horror stories of your cousin Lou who cut off three toes while mowing in flip-flops, let me point out that my lawn mower is not self-propelled, and the blades rotate at an extremely slow pace
The notion of a “staycation” has become popular in these tough economic times. If you’ve somehow managed to miss the buzz, a staycation involves spending your vacation time at home or taking short trips from home base, rather than traveling to more exotic—and expensive—locales.
