The Maine Academy of Natural Sciences in Hinckley was recognized recently as one of the state’s Community Climate Champions by Maine Conservation Alliance.
As a legislator who supports sustainable practices, I was invited to the MeANS campus to participate in the recognition ceremony and to view the school’s hands-on sustainable agriculture program, with its new focus on aquaponics. The students were eager to explain the aquaponic process, in which fish fertilize the water for the vegetables grown in the school’s greenhouses. The aquaponic program reduces the school’s carbon footprint by replacing food that must be trucked in from far away with local food that the students grow themselves in the school’s greenhouses.
The sustainability practices of MeANS also include the installation of 122 solar panels on the administrative building. These panels will generate significant electricity.
MeANS is an inspiration for what can be done at the local level to address climate change. Kudos to the students and staff at MeANS for their work in sustainability.
Rep. Karen Kusiak, D-Fairfield
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