Maine has been making strides towards a sustainable future with access to the use of renewable energy, but there is one company that stands out from the rest.
Earth day is coming up on April 22, and new data reveals a list of the top greenest states in the country. Not surprisingly, the environmentally-aware state of Maine ranks high on the list.
Thanks to the National Centers for Environmental Information, we now know about the most extreme temperatures in the history of our New England states.
According to the Portland Press Herald, restaurants all over Maine are joining an online movement called, "The Last Plastic Straw". The movement encourages the end to single-use plastic straws. In the U.S. alone, over 500 million straws are thrown away creating a huge amount of plastic waste that ends up in our oceans and landfills.
When I was a kid I ate a LOT of fresh snow. It's just frozen water right? Well, no, not really. When snow is falling through the sky it's picking up pollutants along the way, such as soot and dirt. Also found in snow, depending on where it comes from: mercury, formaldehyde, nitrates, pesticides and sulfates...