The campaign to raise funding for our River Bend Farm project brings forth the opportunity for special people to be honored by family and friends through gifts in their name.
Read MoreThe campaign to raise funding for our River Bend Farm project brings forth the opportunity for special people to be honored by family and friends through gifts in their name.
Read MoreThe campaign to raise funding for our River Bend Farm project brings forth the opportunity for special people to be honored by family and friends through gifts in their name.
Read MoreThe campaign to raise funding for our River Bend Farm project brings forth the opportunity for special people to be honored by family and friends through gifts in their name.
Read MoreThe campaign to raise funding for our River Bend Farm project brings forth the opportunity for special people to be honored by family and friends through gifts in their name.
Read MoreIn 2019, The Ecology School broke ground on its new campus at River Bend Farm in Saco, Maine. Upon completion, The Ecology School will become the most sustainable building in the Northeast following “Living Building Challenge” guidelines, the first one of its kind to be constructed here in Maine. Hancock Lumber is proud to be supplying the building materials on this special project in Saco!
Read MoreThe Ecology School receives “first in the world” designation after submitting Vision and Master Plan for the International Living Future Institute’s Living Community Challenge.
Read More“Doing LEED certification, even Platinum, didn’t seem like it was groundbreaking enough,” Drew Dumsch says. “When I looked at the Living Building Challenge ... it felt like it was describing what we wanted to do anyway.”
Read MoreAn environmental education center in southern Maine has broken ground on what it promises will be the most sustainable new construction in the Northeast.
Read MoreA spotlight on the toxicity in building materials and how The Ecology School’s new construction will significantly diminish hazards, helping to lay the foundations for lifelong health.
Read MoreThe Ecology School broke ground on a 9,000-square-foot dormitory and a 7,000-square-foot dining commons. The buildings, which are expected to be completed by spring 2020, will meet criteria for the Living Building Challenge green building certification program
Read MoreThis weekend, farms across the state will showcase their maple sugaring operations during Maine Maple Sunday. Visitors at River Bend farm in Saco last weekend got a taste of maple syrup production on a much smaller scale.
Read MoreThe Ecology School plans to start work next spring on a new campus designed to be among the greenest projects in Maine.
Read MoreIts programs let Maine children experience and learn about sustainability and incorporate it into their school and family lives.
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