Green Team

Photo: 98.9 WCLZ

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.

Latest Headlines

21 minutes ago in Entertainment, Trending

David Attenborough, the excited but hushed voice of nature programs, turns 100

Fresh

The BBC is hosting a party for David Attenborough at the Royal Albert Hall. Cinemas are playing his nature films. Friends have spent weeks lavishing praise on the man and his work.

17 hours ago in Sports, Trending

March Madness tournaments will expand to 76 teams each starting next season

The NCAA announced Thursday that it will expand its two March Madness tournaments by eight teams each next season, a long-expected move that will drop more games into the first week of the highly popular and lucrative showcase without substantially changing its overall form.

17 hours ago in Entertainment, Music

Shakira teases new song for the FIFA World Cup 2026 with Afrobeats star Burna Boy called ‘Dai Dai’

The Colombian singer shared a minute-long teaser clip on Thursday of a new song, writing on social media, "From Maracaná Stadium, here is "Dai Dai," the FIFA World Cup Official Song 2026." She also included a mention of Afrobeats star Burna Boy.

17 hours ago in Entertainment

Rapper Kodak Black arrested in Florida on felony MDMA trafficking charge and pleads not guilty

Rapper Kodak Black was arrested this week on a drug trafficking charge in central Florida in his latest run-in with law enforcement.

1 day ago in Entertainment

Electrical fire will keep the Broadway theater that hosts ‘The Book of Mormon’ closed through May 17

The long-running Broadway hit "The Book of Mormon" will close its doors through May 17 as its theater undergoes repairs after a fire shut down the musical.