Reduce, Reuse, Retire

Maine offers a wealth of green retirement options By Andrea Lani Maine’s retirement-age community is robust and growing, with a quarter of the population aged 60 years and older and around 5,700 people 55 and older moving to the state in 2016, according to the US Census Bureau’s most recent data. As Baby Boomers enter…

Through-wall ventilation

Good “fit” in small-space renovations By Christy Crocker THROUGH-WALL ENERGY recovery ventilation (ERV) units are relative newcomers to the residential ventilation and high-performance building arena, offering a practical ventilation solution when full-size units aren’t an option. The units are designed to blow in for 70 seconds and then reverse and exhaust out for 70 seconds.…

Driving electric: cleaner air, better climate down the road

By Dylan Voorhees Transportation is Maine’s largest source of climate-changing carbon pollution, and it mostly comes from the passenger cars and trucks we drive. While other sources of carbon pollution have declined in the last decade in Maine, carbon pollution from transportation has remained steady. Electric vehicles (EVs) represent an enormous opportunity to change this…