In Our Back Yard Archives

Does your lawn have a chemical addiction?
Drink to Your Health
EnviroFlash saves the day!
Help Reduce Pollutants, In Our Back Yard
Avoid Flushing Medications, In Our Back Yard
Choose Wisely For a Warm and Efficient Home
New Fertilizer Law for Our Back Yards
Are There Pools in Your Back Yard?
Ozone: A New Twist on an Old Foe
Certified Contractors: Pollution Prevention Insurance
What’s a Dump?
What do you know about Climate
Be very selective about that burn pile!
Knowing which waste is which
Clear The Indoor Air
Why You Should Continue to “THINK BLUE”
What Kind of Chemicals Do You Use?
Balancing Wood Smoke and Your Health
How far we’ve come
Brownfields of Dreams
Let it Snow: Snowmobiling Tips for Riding Cleaner
Baking Spices end up In Our Back Yard
Mainers Warm up to Geothermal
It’s not just about ozone anymore
Safety on the Ice
Shop and Save Energy
Cleaning Chemicals from the Basement
Keep the Holidays Lead-Free
What the Heck is Stormwater?
What the Heck is Stormwater?
Groundwater---You Can Dig It!
Stay warm this winter while cutting pollution
Rain Water Quiz
Check Your Tank Before You Fill it With Oil
Make Some Good Clean Fun, In Our Back Yard
Take Note of Nature, In Our Back Yard
Water for your Fire Department
Dirt Ranks #1 Water Polluter, In Our Back Yard
Less Herbicides Are Being Used
State Program Offers Free Disposal of Banned, Unusable Pesticides in October
Eat Locally, In Our Back Yard
Close the Cottage with Care In Our Back Yard
Fishing Pollution
Remember Your Three R’s, In Our Back Yard
Green Cleaning In Our Back Yard
Shock the Pool Safely
Guardians of Our Gardens
Illegal Pesticides Kill Valuable Lake Plants
Keep An Eye Out for Invasives
More Plants and Less Weeds, In Our Back Yard
Rain Gardens
Who Ya Gonna Call…?
Cut Your Carbon and Save, In Our Back Yard
EnviroFlash is Here!
Reduce Gasoline Consumption In Our Back Yard
Welcome the Wetlands
Change Your View of Perfection
Biodiesel
Get Ready…Summer is Coming
Are You Air-Aware, In Our Back Yard?
Highway Salt Damages Roadside Trees
The Importance of Our Carbon Footprint
Spotted Salamanders in Your Back Yard
Calculate Your Carbon Emissions
Have You Heard About Radon
Protecting Inland Birds, In Our Back Yard
Let’s Go Tidal, In Our Back Yard
Let’s Try Wind Energy, In Our Back Yard
Time for a Change, In Our Back Yard
Energy Patrol
Threats to Visiting Shorebirds
Look Up for Efficient Lighting
Conserve the Landscape In Our Back Yard
Shorebirds
Safety on the Ice
Save Money with a Programmable Thermostat
What goes into a storm drain can wind up In Our Back Yard
Cleaning Chemicals from the Basement
Resolve to Be Green
Regifting
Lake Shoreline Aquatic Habitat Protection
Take a Day Off From Consuming
Munch a natural lunch
The Hazards of Antifreeze
Winter Walking and Running
Stay warm this winter while cutting pollution
Watch What You Heat
Protecting Groundwater
Change a Lightbulb—Change the World
Maine Leads in Environmentally Friendly Lawn Care
Don’t Stomp Your Big Foot
Talk to Tom about Tank Safety
Can You Please EPEAT that?
Where Have All the Children Gone?
Green Cleaning
The Past Holds the Key to the Future
Be Kind to Public Islands
Learning to Like Leeches
Keeping Kids Hooked on Fishing - Not on Drugs
Painting Your Home
Saving Energy
How’s the Septic System?
Spotted Salamanders
What’s Your Lawn Care IQ?
Climate Change On the Rise
How does Lake Ice and Ice Out Affect Animals
Is Spring Coming Earlier?
Fertilizing the Lawn
What we all need to know about Universal Wastes
Climate Change
The Air Quality Forecast and Smart Exercise
Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle
Searching for Spring
Insects in Winter
Winter Workouts
Scientific Mysteries Still Abound
Ice Is An Indicator
New Tanks
Deceiving Boundaries of Water
Looking Good
Batteries Not Included
Safety on the Ice
Shop and Save Energy
What do you know about groundwater?
PVC-Free
Munch a natural lunch
Green Fall Cleanup
Breathe Easier While Remodeling
What Do You Know About Storm Water?
Think Twice About Candles
Why Should You “Think Blue”
Tank Time
Reduce Idling
Be Wood Smart
Warm Up to Heating Choices
Button-up Now, Save Money Later
Here’s the “Scoop” on Pets
Help Reduce Hazardous Chemicals
Are you LakeSmart?
Businesses “Warm-up” to Reduce Emissions
“See the Light”
Shock the Pool Safely
Invasive Plant Patrolling
Where’s the Watershed?
Small Spills Count
Particles Matter
Wash Your Clothes More Efficiently
Spotted Salamanders
SIGNS OF SPRING
No Idling
Are There Pools?
Try to Imagine…
Is Spring Coming Earlier Each Year?
Not Like the Old Days In Our Back Yard
Clean and “Dry” the Green Way
Is Spring Weather Coming Earlier?
Celebrate Spring
Go Paperless
Keep the Soil
Have You Heard About Radon?
Green Cars
Drink to Your Health
The Magic of Ice
Look Forward to Ice-Out
Green Cleaning In Our Back Yard
Safety on the Ice In Our Back Yard
Winter Workouts
Join the Fast Lane
It’s Not Just Ozone
Raingardens
Stay warm this winter while cutting pollution
Look at the View
Keep It Cold Efficiently
You Can Switch to "Green Power"
A Better Ride To School
What Kind of Chemicals Do You Use?
Be driven to reduce pollution
It’s More Than a Bog
Rubber Duckies Make a Splash
Why you should care about indoor air?
Green Fall Cleanup
Drought in Your Own Back Yard
Close the Cottage with Care
Back to School With an Air Quality Quiz
“You Say Tomato…”
Help Reduce Hazardous Chemicals
Here's how to avoid double trouble
Lake Information is just a click away
Make a Place for Wildlife
Shape up your tank
Change Your View of Perfection
Invasives are Unwelcome
Cool it when it comes to chlorine
Let’s Look at Lawns
To Ionize or Not To Ionize
Earth Day 2004 Essay Contest - Climate Change2
Ozone Awareness Week
Earth Day 2004 Essay Contest - Global Warming
Get Ready…Summer is Coming
Look for the Flag
Earth Day 2004 Essay Contest - Climate Change
Earth Day 2004 Essay Contest - Corals
Ants Are No Picnic
Spring is just around the corner
Make a commitment
Get Rid of Mold
How fragrant is your home?
Searching for Spring
Test your climate knowledge
Breathe Easier While Remodeling
What goes into a storm drain can wind up In Our Back Yard
Simple Cleaning Solutions
Highway Salt Damages Roadside Trees
Exhaust the air quality from snowmobiles
Get “floored”
Counting Birds
Safety on the Ice
Look at Saving Electricity in a “new light”
New Tanks
Seeing Green for the Holidays
Holiday Slow Down
What do you know about groundwater?
Learn the Three Rs
Batteries Not Included
What is the Board of Environmental Protection doing?
Cold hard facts about home heating oil spills!
Cleaning Up Indoor Air
Welcome the Wetlands
Prevent Gas Spills
What the Heck is Stormwater?
Get Rid of Mold
Let’s look at sprawl
Close the Cottage with Care
Simple Steps to Take
A different kind of green roofing
There's a Hole in Our Back Yard
Reduce Gasoline Consumption
Aquatic plants are not all bad
Put pressure on decking lumber
Air Pollution Clouds the View
Dirt Ranks #1 Water Polluter
Keep An Eye Out for Invasives
How Outdoor Wood Boilers "stack up"
Boating Season Resolutions
Maine Soybean crops are helping to improve our air quality!

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