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Maine’s growing regional grain economy is poised to help farmers, local economies, and supply chains be more nimble as climate change increasingly forces agriculture in the region to adapt to severe weather events and warming temperatures.
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In Maine, there’s a small community of gardeners and farmers who are restoring and saving lost seed varieties. Seed saving is a way to connect with past traditions, but in the face of climate change, it's an important way to the adapt for the future.
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The main takeaway? EV drivers need to use extra care planning their trips outside of southern Maine, where most of the chargers are.
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GO Lab is retrofitting a former paper mill in Madison to process low-quality byproducts of the state's lumber industry — softwood sawmill chips and timber-harvest detritus that right now are hard to sell. They'll turn it into wood-fiber insulation, called Timber HP. Some 230 million tons worth a year.
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Maine set big goals for this industry: 3,000 megawatts of wind power by 2020 — but the state has come up far short of those goals so far.
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An MIT lifecycle assessment estimates that producing just one pair of running shoes generates 30 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions. That's because it's an energy intensive process that uses cotton, leather and oil-dependent polyester. It also generates a lot of waste.
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Coastal communities have a leg up in climate change planning. Here's how inland Maine is catching upFor Many rural communities inland, budgets rarely pay for planning staff or expertise. Earlier this year, the state launched its own effort to assist on that front. And in Somerset County, the Kennebec Valley Council of Governments has added staff in recent years to try to jumpstart some of that work.
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The northernmost reaches of Somerset County in Maine could become one of the last strongholds of syrup production in New England.