Belfast Climate Crisis Committee to Meet Tuesday, February 16, 2021 4:56 PM Belfast’s Climate Crisis Committee will host its monthly program featuring three young speakers, all involved in promoting efforts to reduce the effects of climate change, on Monday, February 22, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Belfast Free Library will cohost.
Speaker Ania Wright is a recent graduate of College of the Atlantic and serves as a member of the Maine Climate Council. She is also active with Maine Youth for Climate Justice and provides guidance to climate-action teams throughout the state, including those in schools.
Also speaking will be Anna Siegel, a ninth-grader at Waynflete School in Portland, who has been working as an environmental activist for several years.
Maine Voices: State retirement fund should divest fossil fuel investments
Beyond the environmental damage they cause, fossil fuels no longer provide a good bang for the buck.
By Maggie O Neil and Anna SiegelSpecial to the Press Herald
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From our iconic working waterfronts to our sprawling forests, it is increasingly clear that the features that make Maine so special are incredibly vulnerable to a changing climate.
According to a recent report on the effects of climate change in Maine, we face significant impacts right here at home. These impacts include unpredictable weather such as droughts and severe storms, sea-level rise, a warming and increasingly acidified Gulf of Maine, decreased air quality, and threats to biodiversity within our ecosystems. Climate disruption is already harming our environment, economy, marginalized communities and the quality of life we all treasure.
by Andrew Zwicker on Wednesday Jul 13 2011
Riding the rodeo over Red Mountain - Andrew Zwicker photo
In one fell swoop, Olympic-sized opportunities were cracked open for Rossland last week (and indeed for young skiers and snowboarders the world over) as the International Olympic Committee announced the inclusion of three new ski and snowboard disciplines beginning in Sochi, Russia for 2014. With the addition of slopestyle skiing and boarding as well as parallel alpine snowboarding, Red Mountain, the Red Mountain Academy and RSS received an opportunity to take a big switch D-spin forward.
Slopestyle, long an X-Games staple, is a series of judged runs through hits, lips, wedges, rails, boxes and typical features found in ski area’s terrain parks built to a high level with multiple routes and options. Skiers and boarders are traditionally judged on speed, style, difficulty and amplitude.