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How to shrink your seafood footprint
Farmed oysters, along with their cousins the clam and the mussel, are extremely carbon-light. SEE MORE
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Study: lobster has small carbon footprint
In the spring of 2021, the Island Institute undertook a carbon footprint study with Maine-based seafood company and Island Institute partner Luke’s Lobster. It was the first time greenhouse gas emissions were measured along one company’s supply chain of Gulf of Maine lobster. Both the Institute, publisher of The Working… SEE MORE
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Op-ed: MDI housing crisis affects much more
The town of Mount Desert asserts in clear terms an underlying problem that radiates out into so many other issues. “The high cost for housing is currently one of the primary driving forces behind many of the issues facing the town of Mount Desert,” the town’s comprehensive plan argues. “An… SEE MORE
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Transitions and transformation on MDI
When neighbors talk to neighbors, focused on solutions, we build momentum by connecting based on what we value. SEE MORE
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The Deer Isle causeway’s curvy history
The excellent article on the vulnerability of the Deer Isle causeway (The Working Waterfront, November issue) prompts me to add some history, as well as some things to consider when planning future modifications. Before the causeway was built, passage between Deer Isle and Little Deer, unless by boat, was at… SEE MORE
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Malcolm Morley’s Port Clyde collage
An artist with a checkered past—he served time in a U.K. reform school and prison before finding his way to art school and subsequent fame as a painter in New York City—Morley became a U.S. citizen in 1991 at age 60. SEE MORE
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‘Bunglaries,’ island criminal misadventures
At the motel, eager to make up their losses, they busted out an awning window that was much too small for any one of them to have squeezed through before trying the door and finding it open. SEE MORE
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A future in boats and photos
After World War II, Bert Snow and Maurice McKusick partnered with Alfred Storer and Ralph Cowan to develop the Snow Marine Basin at the site of an old lime kiln... SEE MORE
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A traditional winter fishery in decline
A resident of Phippsburg, he set up his shack on the Sasanoa River between the towns of Woolwich and Arrowsic SEE MORE
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Waterfront jobs: ‘Traditions and transitions’
The theme of this year's conference was “traditions and transitions,” a way to both acknowledge the culture and history of working waterfronts as well as the many changes these areas are facing. SEE MORE
