BANGOR DAILY NEWS • April 19, 2022
As Earth Day approaches, it’s hard not to feel powerless in the face of the global climate crisis. The threat is urgent and real: We’ve received “code red” alerts and a ”final warning” from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). These urgent alerts are important and powerful, but they can also feel overwhelming. It can seem like meaningful action only happens at the international scale. Here in Maine, however, we can lead the way on another kind of climate action — one that doesn’t get discussed much, but that offers environmental, social, and economic value in Maine and beyond: Mitigating climate change by participating in second-hand economies.