While visitors can learn about sustainability and self-sufficiency, founder Chris Knapp wishes most that people leave the Maine Local Living School in Temple with gratitude for connections, relationships and living beings of all kinds.
sustainability
Electric boats poised to make waves on Maine coast
Battery-powered outboards are seen as a first step in ‘electrifying’ the working waterfront. Are pleasure boats next?
Pod recast: This riff on avocado toast drastically reduces the food miles
Here’s a Maine-based sustainably minded answer to a trendy spread: Pea mash.
McCain Foods aims to power half of Aroostook plant with solar gardens
The Canadian potato-processing company’s plans for the Easton plant are part of a broader sustainability effort that includes training farmers in practices that will enrich their soil.
Coldplay hopes to lead with a green tour
The band has added solar panels, kinetic dance floors that generate electricity, compostable wristbands for the audience and is using biodegradable confetti.
Green Plate Special: Improving soil on farms also improves health of environment
And preliminary data says it’ll improve your own health, too.
Douglas Tallamy would like you to help build a Homegrown National Park
Use your backyard to plant species that will help slow Earth’s Sixth Mass Extinction.
Maine lobster at risk of losing a sustainability label over right whale concerns
The California-based Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program is considering which species to add to its ‘red list.’
Green Plate Special: What to do with all the brown paper bags you accumulated at the height of the pandemic?
With stamps, ribbons and pine cones, you can repurpose them into beautiful holiday wrapping paper.
Green Plate Special: Eat locally, seasonally – and take a page from Persian kitchens
Cookbook writer and eco-conscious chef Louisa Shafia is visiting Rockport this week to cook and teach.