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Islands can help fight global warming

The larger international community needs to take coordinated responsibility for monitoring and mediating problems caused by global warming.  Individuals can accelerate efforts to prepare for climate change. On the islands, that includes community organizing. Environmentally, that includes protecting sea grass, restricting fertilizer use, green building and redesigning infrastructure at shorelines to account for habitat migration.

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Sprawl and water

The recent, excellent article on sprawl by Colin Woodard vividly portrayed the conflicts over sprawl on the mainland and how that impacts us culturally in Maine. Along with many of the New Urbanists, he seems to believe that the solution is in concentrated “cluster housing” to reduce fragmentation. This may be true. There is no

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