Sustainability Toolbox
Every year, Maine throws away around 361,000 tons of food—nearly 40% of production—with about 4,200 tons lost in K-12 schools alone. The “No More Wasted Food” DIY toolkit offers practical strategies for schools to track and reduce waste.
Food Rescue Maine
Wasted food is a huge issue, both globally, and right here in Maine. Forty percent of the food produced for human consumption in the United States is wasted every year. Learn more about food waste in Maine and how you can make a difference.
Community Waste Toolkit
The Community Waste Toolkit is a set of best practices for waste reduction in the state of Maine. Based on interviews with organizations, municipalities, and community groups across the state of Maine, the Toolkit is designed to share success stories across four different categories: organics management, reuse, policy, and community engagement.
Maine Municipal Guide to Mapping and Conserving Vernal Pools (pdf)
Best practices from the Maine Vernal Pools Mapping Project are available to all towns through the Maine Municipal Guide to Mapping and Conserving Vernal Pool Resources, co-written by Dawn Morgan and Aram Calhoun. This comprehensive guide covers everything from vernal pool ecology to training citizen scientists how to identify and assess vernal pools. This guide was developed as part of a group of projects under SSI’s project.
Water & Sustainability Links
This page provides links to sites dealing with water and sustainability resources at a national, regional and local level. Please note that this page is not updated on a regular basis so some links may not be current.
Mitchell Center Resources
Links to uploaded files of Mitchell Center presentations, programs, reports and more.