Maine community-led
Energy & Climate Action Network
Connecting communities
taking action on energy
and climate resilience
MAINECAN is a platform for sharing services and resources that support community-led climate action.
Explore A Climate to Thrive’s Community-Driven Climate Action Toolkit for resources on forming, growing, and sustaining local climate action initiatives and for plug-and-play project templates with many supportive resources.
CEBE’s Building Local Climate Leadership Toolkit is a free, practical guide that walks communities through every step of forming a climate committee or community group.
The Resource Hub’s Library offers curated resources useful for all Maine communities, including guides, studies, reports, and plans by Maine towns. SMRCC also provides access to direct support, funding, technical assistance, training, and more for communities in the Southern & Midcoast Maine service area.
MAINECAN supports and connects local community groups in Maine that are interested in implementing projects to help make their communities more resilient to a changing climate and access the benefits of a sustainable energy transition.
MAINECAN is part of a broad ecosystem of Maine climate-related groups, networks, and programs. Explore how these groups are connecting with each other.
