Sustainability
One Woman’s Quest To Help With Food And Family In Puerto Rico
Veronica Montalvo was born in Willimantic and has lived in Hartford, Middletown, Waterbury — and, now, San Juan. She moved there earlier this year. And she weathered Hurricane Maria in her 300-year-old apartment building. She says the hours of howling winds were unbearable. The walls of her apartment were so wet they looked like they were crying. Part of her ceiling caved in.
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Land Conservationists Worry Power Plant Will Fragment Forest, Harm Species
As my tour guide, Bill Eccleston, and I walked through the dirt, twigs and puddles of the George Washington Wildlife Management Area in Burrillville, we heard a bird call above us.
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Flood Risk For Vermonters Is More Than What’s On FEMA’s Flood Maps
Karin Hardy says she never thought much about flood insurance before Tropical Storm Irene, but she learned a pretty tough lesson the Monday after the storm in 2011.
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Study: New England Loses 65 Acres Of Forest Per Day To Development
A new wave of forest loss is underway in New England, at a rate of 65 acres a day. That’s the conclusion of a new regionwide study spearheaded by a Harvard University forest research group. And the authors say New England could lose more than a million acres of forest cover over the next half-century.
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Coastal Communities Challenge Updated FEMA New England Flood Maps
In the wake of hurricanes Harvey and Irma, observers are predicting that premiums for a cash-strapped federal flood insurance program are likely to rise. Along the Atlantic coast, meanwhile, communities from Rhode Island to Maine are already mounting a related challenge to the program: the accuracy of federal flood maps maps that designate who must pay those premiums in the first place.
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These Young Entrepreneurs See Opportunity Flowing Through Maine’s Decaying Dams
Maine is home to hundreds of dams that have fallen out of use, a legacy of the heyday of its mills.
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Gigantic Batteries Help Grow Renewable Energy In Maine, New England
For more than half a century, a massive, oil-fired plant has been churning out electricity from an island in the heart of Maine’s Casco Bay, where sailors use its towering smokestack for navigation.
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To Restore Healthy Rivers, Conservationists Find Success Removing Small Dams
Unlike large hydropower dams, where there’s often serious political and emotional resistance to removal, conservationists are finding many landowners of small dams are happy to have them removed.
Read MoreBuilding An Ark For New England’s Rare Plants, Seed By Seed
In New England, 22 percent of the region’s native plants are considered rare. Some of them are on the federal list of endangered species. Biologists worldwide and locally have been saving crop seeds, and seeds from other plants important to the ecosystem.
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Maine Utilities Compete To Supply Electricity To Massachusetts
Bids are in for a slew of large-scale clean electricity projects that could influence New England’s energy landscape — and maybe its physical landscape — for decades.
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