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Reduce Your Impact

Your Carbon Footprint #1

Efficiency Maine offers this calculator of your household’s energy use, and practical ideas on how to reduce it.

Your Carbon Footprint #2

Calculate your entire lifestyle’s impact on climate change with this carbon footprint calculator and compare yourself to other Americans and the rest of the world.

Curbside Composting with Garbage To Garden

Learn how you can recycle your food scraps on garbage day.

Go Maine

Tips on how to save on gasoline and stay warm during the winter!

Compact Florescent Lights

On this page you can find out more about the benefits of CFLs as well as how to recycle them

Natural Resources Council of Maine

Stay up-to-date on ways you can take action to help keep Maine green.

Ocean Conservancy

Learn more about their efforts to empower people through research, education, and science-based advocacy and to speak and act on behalf of healthy and diverse ocean ecosystems.

Maine Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council

Learn more about leaders in the building industry working to promote buildings that are envrironmentally responsible, profitable and healthy places to live and work

METRO

Explore using public transportation to get around greater Portland.

Green Burials

Find out more about reducing your impact permanently and forever! There are now two green cemetaries in Maine.

YardScape

Helping you get a green lawn while reducing the use of pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers.

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