Bangor Metro - March 2009

March 2009

America's Greenest College

Henry Garfield
Nestled on the shores of Frenchman Bay sits a quiet college with a big distinction. When your student housing has composting toilets, is heating with a wood pellet boiler, and insulated with old newspapers, it’s no wonder you’re deemed America’s Greenest College.

Electric Landfill

Melanie Brooks
Your Thanksgiving leftovers from 1987 could possibly be powering your neighbor's television today. No longer the stuff of science fiction novels, yesterday's trash is successfully being turned into electricity at Hampden's Pine Tree Landfill

The House That Science Built

Craig Idlebrook
Unity College's "Unity House" is more than just a home for the school's president. It's also a classroom and an events space. Oh yeah, and it produces its own electricity. Talk about efficiency!

A Spud Banquet

Craig Idlebrook
Baked, broiled, mashed, or steamed - anyway you slice it John Jemison knows there's more than meets the eye when it comes to potatoes.

Points of Healing

Ashley Pearson
For the past 30 years, Zev Myerowitz has been helping his patients battle everything from headaches to cancer by sticking them with needles. It's not as bad as it sounds.

Natural Advocate

Henry Garfield
Brownie Carson of the Natural Resources Council of Maine stands like a tall tree among Maine’s environmental activists. It’s no wonder that he’s been rooted in natural resources advocacy for 25 years.

Man of Iron

Annaliese Jakimides
Sculptor and collector, Liberty's iron man David McLaughlin has made a life of working with materials that others overlook.

Soapbox Derby: Environmentalism

Scott K Fish and Sean Faircloth
It seems like everyone claims to be going green these days - it makes you wonder if they're telling the truth or trying to be politically correct. In honor of our green issue we asked the Soapbox Boys about their green tendencies.

Hunter Green

Brad Eden
Sportsmen have been supporting conservation quietly and consistently for decades, in part by putting their money where their mouth is.

Perspectives: Allison Trentelman

Photographs by Allison Trentelman
Allison Trentelman'€™s mandalas are an extension of her photographic work in the landscape. Her photographs may focus on a twist of root or the texture of moss, but when repeated here with digital manipulation, they take on a meditative quality in the tradition of the eastern religions of Buddhism and Hinduism. Mandala is a Sanskrit word meaning “having essence” or “containing,” but more often translated as “circle” or “sacred circle” and is a form that can be found throughout the world in various cultures. Mandalas are often used in meditation because gazing at them is said to help balance the hemispheres of the brain.

Earl Hornswaggle: Goin' Green

Mark Ricketts
Earl Hornswaggle, the oldest man in Bangor.

Passporting

Annaliese Jakimides
There's a lot to learn inside that little book of freedom.