Debunking home energy myths
Whether you are a renter or a homeowner, you can upgrade the efficiency and comfort of your space without breaking the bank. Here are some tips to help you get started.
Magic of Mushrooms
By Amy Paradysz Beyond their deliciously earthy culinary contributions, mushrooms have been used medicinally for thousands of years. About half the varieties of edible mushrooms are considered functional foods, meaning they may have a positive effect on health beyond nutrition. Fungi have a variety of health benefits — and surprisingly creative environmental uses. Superfood nutrition.…
Maine’s State Parks: 5 Gems to Visit this Year
By Carey Kish From Alpine Peaks of granite and leafy green hills, sparkling blue lakes and ponds and pristine rivers and streams to long stretches of sandy beach, spruce-studded peninsulas, remote islands and rugged headlands, Maine is home to a remarkable array of natural landscapes. Incredibly, some 4 million acres of the state’s total land…
Rachel Carson’s Maine
By Andrea Lani WHEN YOU SEE A BALD EAGLE perched in a spruce tree overlooking a tidal estuary, thank Rachel Carson. That a trip to the shore is often rewarded with an eagle sighting can be attributed in large part to Carson’s 1962 book, Silent Spring. The book sounded the alarm about the dangers to…