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Back to our roots

Going Green
It's a fundamental notch in any homesteader's totem pole: Root-cellaring, or the practice of storing fresh, whole, harvested fruits and vegetables in a cool environment (usually underground) in order to enjoy them long after the growing season has ended.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | February 13, 2013

Documentary shows America’s system is far from neat

Health care on the rocks
Toward the end of 2012, the US Census Bureau reported that for the first time in years, the number of uninsured Americans had actually fallen — to 48.6 million, from an all-time high of 49.9 million in 2010.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | February 06, 2013

A bunch of Maine-related whiskey items, some of them a stretch

Shots
How did Blood & Whiskey Studio — a custom-printing business based on Peaks Island — get its name?

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | February 13, 2013

Roorbach’s newest book tastes of envy, mystery

Crossing the divide
Secrets and food and celebrity and bodies. These are the subjects of Maine author Bill Roorbach's new novel, Life Among Giants, a literary mystery with a tinge of soap-opera sudsiness.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | January 30, 2013

No tar-sands oil here, please

Defensive Action
Close to 1500 people from around the Northeast and Canada gathered in downtown Portland on Saturday to protest a potential project that would pipe tar-sands oil from western Canada through New England to Portland Harbor.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | January 30, 2013

Learning to eat more with less impact

Plant-based practice
In the course of an hour, Chris McClay convinced me that I just may be able to live without cheese.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | January 23, 2013

Local suspense novel conjures summertime

Mysterious strangers
If these chilly winter days have you dreaming of sunbathing on the beach, a new mystery novel by Maine author Josh Pahigian could be just the thing to turn up the heat.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | January 23, 2013

Documentary revives the AIDS fight in archival footage

Fighting back
More than 30 "archival cinematographers" are credited at the end of David France's Oscar-nominated documentary, How to Survive a Plague .

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | January 16, 2013

Greasing the wheels

Going Green
In the six months since we wrote about them last, the folks at Portland's Garbage to Garden curbside composting program have seen impressive growth.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | January 31, 2013

Indigenous-rights movement grows

Refusing Idleness
A nascent but growing protest movement originating from indigenous people in Canada has found sympathizers in Maine, where 0.7 percent of the population identifies as American Indian.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | January 09, 2013

At last: same-sex marriage in Maine!

Just Married
Thousands of same-sex marriages will take place in the Pine Tree State over the next few years, and it all started at 12:01 am on Saturday, December 29.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | December 31, 2012

Get it done

Going Green
Unity College, a small school in Waldo County with a focus on environmental issues, announced this year that it will pull its investments from the fossil-fuel industry — underscoring that institutions of higher education have a responsibility to address climate change.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | December 19, 2012

Working toward a greener 2013

Environment Dept.
Maine's environmental activists believe they will be forced to "play defense" next year, as Governor Paul LePage attempts to dismantle the Renewable Portfolio Standards Law and international oil barons consider routing toxic tar sands through the state.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | December 12, 2012

A survivalist Christmas

Gifts to ensure you live to see the New Year — and many more!
Everything you're about to read will be especially relevant if the world as we know it ends on December 21, as the Mayan calendar (supposedly) predicts. But even if the apocalypse doesn't rain down just before Christmas, it can't hurt to be prepared for what some believe to be an inevitable coming collapse.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | December 05, 2012

Suggestions for the home gardener

Growth-oriented giving
So you've got someone with a green thumb on your shopping list, someone with a bud ding interest in indoor horticulture?

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | December 05, 2012

Maine’s same-sex couples get a New Year’s present

License to Wed
Happy New Year, indeed. On November 6, Mainers United for Marriage celebrated as our state became the first to use a popular election to allow committed same-sex couples to receive a marriage license. On Monday, advocates cheered again, when they heard that the law would formally take effect on December 29.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | December 05, 2012

As marijuana laws ease nationwide, Maine leads — and responds

Pot revolution
With a marijuana legalization proposal on the horizon and a medical cannabis program that continues to evolve, Maine is an active participant in the country's pot revolution.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | November 28, 2012

As marijuana laws ease nationwide, Maine leads — and responds

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | November 29, 2012

Mission: Outdoors

Going Green
It's not every day that Sierra Club members mingle at VFW halls, but it happened in Portland last week when US Army veteran Stacy Bare was the guest of honor at a spaghetti supper at the Maine VFW Post 6859 on Forest Avenue.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | November 21, 2012

Stepping up to lead

Election Roundup
Portland state senator Justin Alfond, 37, who lives on Munjoy Hill, was first elected to the state legislature in 2008, and spent the last session serving as assistant minority leader, was likely to become senate president when the Phoenix went to press on Tuesday evening.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | November 14, 2012

YA novel explores the refugee experience in Portland

‘A tongue gives you power’
I wish every teenager — nay, every person — in Portland could read Terry Farish's new book, The Good Braider (Marshall Cavendish/Amazon Children's Publishing).

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | November 07, 2012

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