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The following course will be offered through York Adult Education on Tuesday, March 29, from 6:00 to 9:00pm. If you’re building, remodeling or simply want to be more “green” you will learn what it means to be “green” in relation to your home. Ron has a wealth of information to share that will help . . . → Read More: Living in a Green Home The following story highlights the urgency of re-localizing our food system. Higher oil prices, climate disruptions, and a host of other factors will mean both volatile food prices and sporatic shortages for the foreseeable future. As a community, our best insurance against food insecurity will be to grow more of our own in backyard vegetable gardens and to support . . . → Read More: Food prices soaring For some Americans, higher coffee prices might bring a little more attention to global warming weirding. Since 2006, climate change has played a major role in a 30% decrease in Colombian coffee production. From the NY Times’ Science section online, view a short video titled Colombia’s Coffee Crisis. “Abnormal rains and high temperatures are . . . → Read More: Colombia’s coffee crisis An environmental group says off-the-shelf solar hot water technology could save more than 7 million gallons of oil in Maine at a time when oil prices are rising. As Oil Prices Soar, Report Finds Solar Hot Water Would Save Mainers $, Oil Portland, ME - As oil prices rise steeply, an Environment Maine report released . . . → Read More: Report urges Mainers to move to solar An excellent article in the March 8 edition of the NY Times by Mark Bittman: The oldest and most common dig against organic agriculture is that it cannot feed the world’s citizens; this, however, is a supposition, not a fact. And industrial agriculture isn’t working perfectly, either: the global food price index is at a . . . → Read More: Sustainable Farming Can Feed the World Gas Prices on the Rise Gas prices have steadily risen since the beginning of the year largely due to political unrest and uncertainty over oil supplies in the Middle East and North Africa. The average price of a gallon of gasoline rose 19 cents in the past week and 92 cents since September 2010, . . . → Read More: Save some gas, save some money  |
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