Treehugger recently highlighted the work of several artists working in a new medium- “eco-grafitti”. It’s cool stuff, read more here.

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The 100 year old museum is the largest museum in America devoted to the history of the American whaling industry and its greatest port, New Bedford.

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A few weekends ago Sally and I brought the last couple bags of fleeces we had put aside to get processed at Hope Spinnery. Check out some of Peter’s pictures of the space, and read about this incredible Maine business.

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If you have never listened to T. Boone Pickens, you will likely be pleasantly surprised.

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Last Friday and Saturday I joined more than 500 other business-people and “local” activists from around the country for BALLE’s 6th Annual Conference in Boston, entitled Grow Deep. BALLE (the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies) is a nationwide organization that provides resources to local and regional networks of local and independent businesses working towards [...]

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While we were in Baltimore last weekend for Bill’s birthday party we were able to schedule a last minute tour with organizers of Community Greens, a back alley park project. Sally will post more about Community Greens later. I posted these photos because one of Bill’s early projects involved the renovation of row-homes up [...]

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“Technology that only takes one architect to install…” Rick Renner

Our friend Rick Renner recently completed Portland, Maine’s first LEED Platinum project. It was the renovation of a two story brick building into a first floor office for his architecture firm and a second floor apartment for himself. Rick is a principal of Rick Renner [...]

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Daniel from Sumner Farms in Sumner, Maine wins the prize (bragging rights) for the first farmer at the Wednesday’s Farmers Market for a second year running.
I do have to point out that Simone from Thirty Acre Farms, and Daniel from Freedom Farm have been making bi-weekly deliveries all winter. So they definitely win the year [...]

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This Thursday at 2pm at Maine Green Building Supply, the City of Portland will hold a press event regarding the release of the Sustainable Portland Taskforce Report and Brochure (Port City Studios did the editing and design for the brochure). From the Press Advisory:
This Thursday, the Sustainable Portland Taskforce will release its Sustainable Portland Report. [...]

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This one comes to us via: Vigorous North. As it turns out, you can train crows to collect change using reward behavior principles - drop change into the vending machine and peanuts dispense bellow. The interesting economic piece of this invention is that according to its inventor, americans loose $250 million of change annually. With [...]

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Over a hundred people attended a recent transportation planning session organized by the City of Portland’s Transportation Committee. The committee recently launched a Peninsula Transit Study to evaluate potential methods and benefits of expanding and optimizing a transportation system for the Portland Peninsula that emphasizes public and human powered transit as a preferred feasible alternative [...]

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As part of PlaNYC 2030, the City will implement a pilot program which will introduce 20 cubic meters of ribbed mussel beds in the Hendrix Creek, a tributary to Jamaica Bay. Like many stories of environmental degradation, there was once an estimated 350 square miles of oyster beds surrounding New York’s Harbor. These beds once [...]

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The Woonasquatucket River Fish Passage Restoration Project has completed the first of three fish ladders at the head of the Woonasquatucket River. This project calls for three fish ladders to be built at the first three dams on the Woonasquatucket River; Rising Sun Dam, Paragon Dam, and Atlantic Mills Dam.
A denil fish ladder and plunge [...]

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For the last eight years, the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York has held a competition to transform their outdoor courtyard into a party and event space. In past years, winning entries have evoked beaches and huge blooming flowers. This is the first year that their courtyard will be used to grow vegetables. The [...]

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On December 17th, the City Council in Missoula Montana voted to approve an ordinance allowing city residents to keep chickens, with a 8 to 4 vote. The video below documents the controversy that raged in the City leading up to the contentious vote. I especially love the shots of the chickens in front of what [...]

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“They are surrounded by materialism trying to figure out how to create a life more oriented toward intrinsic values.” - Tim Kasser, Professor of Psychology, Knox College, Galesburg, Ill.
The New York Times posted an article on Friday titled: For ‘EcoMoms,’ Saving Earth Begins at Home. The image shows a well to do suburban home, [...]

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In the February issue of Working Waterfront, there are some really interesting articles. And I thought I would pass them along. Working Waterfront is one of my favorite local papers here in Maine, and I always make a point to pick it up when I see it. Luckily, they also maintain a pretty good website, [...]

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We were down in Florida last weekend to visit my Great-Aunt Marge, along with most of the Wilks clan. Todd, Marge’s son and our trip organizer, recommended a trip to the Wakodahatchee Wetlands in Delray Beach. We didn’t know quite what to expect but were glad to get out-of-doors for a stroll.
The Wakadahatchee Wetlands are, [...]

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Congressman Tom Allen recently emailed his list to promote what he believes is an insufficient and flawed Federal Budget. He struck out against the Bush Administration and in particular the Energy Policy that is certainly a step backwards for the nation. I am sure you fully aware of its faults but here is an excerpt [...]

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