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SUMMARY:NRCM Monthly Climate Action Call - April 2025
DESCRIPTION:These Zoom meetings will give you a chance to meet our staff experts\, hear the latest climate & clean energy related updates at the State House and beyond\, and learn ways to take action and make a difference. We’ll focus on a different issue each month and send an agenda and what to expect before each call.
URL:https://mainecan.network/event/nrcm-monthly-climate-action-call/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250407T120000
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SUMMARY:Local Leads the Way April 2025 call
DESCRIPTION:Local Leads the Way provides support to communities throughout the state of Maine who are engaged in community-driven\, solutions-focused climate action. Local Leads the Way hosts monthly meetings open to anyone involved in or contemplating community-driven climate action. Through these meetings\, participants share resources\, build networks of support\, participate in trainings\, collaborate\, and reduce duplication of effort. Meetings typically take place the first Monday of each month. We hope you will join us! Email johannah@aclimatetothrive.org with any questions or to express interest in Local Leads the Way!
URL:https://mainecan.network/event/local-leads-the-way-april-call/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250407T150000
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SUMMARY:Mitchell Center - Talk – Closing the Loop: Opportunities for Industrial Circular Economy Exchanges in Maine
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, we’ll explore the potential of industrial symbiosis and materials exchanges as solutions for reducing waste in Maine— a key policy priority for climate action and sustainable resource use. By facilitating the exchange of waste\, Industrial Symbiosis and Materials Exchanges can cut disposal costs\, minimize pollution\, and unlock new economic opportunities. This presentation will examine how Maine can create a collaborative network to foster these circular economy solutions and support the state’s climate goals.
URL:https://mainecan.network/event/talk-closing-the-loop-opportunities-for-industrial-circular-economy-exchanges-in-maine/
LOCATION:Mitchell Center\, 107 Norman Smith Hall\, UMaine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:Educational Event,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250408T183000
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SUMMARY:Sierra Club Maine - Earth Month Film Showing "A Fierce Green Fire" at Belfast Free Library\, Belfast
DESCRIPTION:A FIERCE GREEN FIRE: The Battle For a Living Planet is the first big-picture exploration of the environmental movement – grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change. From halting dams in the Grand Canyon to battling 20\,000 tons of toxic waste at Love Canal; from Greenpeace saving the whales to Chico Mendes and the rubbertappers saving the Amazon; from climate change to the promise of transforming our civilization… the film tells vivid stories about people fighting – and succeeding – against enormous odds.
URL:https://mainecan.network/event/earth-month-film-showing-a-fierce-green-fire-at-belfast-free-library-belfast/
LOCATION:Belfast Free Library\, 106 High St\, Belfast\, ME\, 04915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Educational Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250409T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250409T190000
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SUMMARY:YRCA - Coastal Tourism and Sustainability
DESCRIPTION:This program is part of our 2025 Climate Change Series: Coastal Impacts and Resources. This series is co-sponsored by York Public Library\, York Ready for Climate Action and York Land Trust.
URL:https://mainecan.network/event/coastal-tourism-and-sustainability/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Educational Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250410T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250410T140000
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CREATED:20250314T153204Z
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SUMMARY:Clean Energy Group - Webinar: Energy Resilience for Medically Vulnerable Multifamily Affordable Housing Residents: A Technoeconomic Analysis for Connecticut
DESCRIPTION:Power outages can quickly turn into a health crisis for the millions of Americans that rely on electricity for home medical devices\, including life-support equipment and technologies for independent living. A new report\, Optimizing Energy Resilience to Support Medically Vulnerable Multifamily Affordable Housing Residents\, assesses the potential for solar+storage to improve health outcomes for medically vulnerable residents. It includes a technoeconomic analysis that explores opportunities to maintain electricity to essential resident services\, both in-unit and in communal spaces\, at three multifamily affordable housing facilities in Connecticut. In this webinar\, project partners will discuss the methodology and results of their technoeconomic analysis\, including key findings and recommendations. Speakers will also discuss applicable incentives available through Connecticut’s Energy Storage Solutions program and Residential Renewable Energy Solutions program.
URL:https://mainecan.network/event/webinar-energy-resilience-for-medically-vulnerable-multifamily-affordable-housing-residents-a-technoeconomic-analysis-for-connecticut/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250414T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250414T160000
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SUMMARY:Mitchell Center - Talk – Managing for sustainability and climate resilience: The future of agroecological wild blueberry management in Maine and maritime Canada
DESCRIPTION:Wild blueberry production in Maine and maritime Canada is an ecologically\, economically\, and culturally important industry and land use. Agroecology is a scientific discipline that examines agriculture within both ecological and social contexts\, and can be used to better understand the past\, present\, and potential future of wild blueberry agriculture in our region. In this talk\, we present two recent agroecological investigations of wild blueberries: First\, Brogan Tooley\, senior manager of agroecology at Wyman’s\, will share on-farm challenges and ongoing research efforts to identify management techniques that bolster crop resilience and mitigate crop stress in today’s climate. Next\, Dr. Rachel Schattman of the University of Maine Agroecology Lab will present on an ongoing study to investigate the effects of climate change\, specifically changing temperature and precipitation regimes\, on wild blueberries. We invite audience participation in the second half of the presentation as we probe the most pressing questions related to Northeast wild blueberry production in a changing climate.
URL:https://mainecan.network/event/talk-managing-for-sustainability-and-climate-resilience-the-future-of-agroecological-wild-blueberry-management-in-maine-and-maritime-canada/
LOCATION:Mitchell Center\, 107 Norman Smith Hall\, UMaine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:Educational Event,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250418T100000
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SUMMARY:Mitchell Center - 2025 Maine Wasted Food Solutions Summit
DESCRIPTION:The Maine Wasted Food Solutions Summit is Maine’s only statewide event focused on ending wasted food and food loss in our state. The Summit brings together our state’s key food system participants—farms\, businesses\, feeding partners\, community leaders and more – to discuss proven win-win solutions for ending wasted food and food loss in Maine.
URL:https://mainecan.network/event/2025-maine-wasted-food-solutions-summit/
LOCATION:Mitchell Center\, 107 Norman Smith Hall\, UMaine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:Educational Event,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250421T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250421T160000
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CREATED:20250314T165742Z
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SUMMARY:Mitchell Center - Talk – Reconciling with resilience: How Maine can bounce back from floods
DESCRIPTION:Last winter’s devastating storms revealed just how vulnerable Maine communities are to flooding\, whether they’re behind seawalls along the coast or nestled on rivers in the state’s mountainous interior. In the aftermath of that flooding\, Maine Monitor reporter Emmett Gartner traveled across the state to report on how effectively communities weathered the storms\, speaking with local officials about their plans to fortify their towns against the rising seas and more frequent\, intensifying storms brought on by climate change. Join Emmett at the University of Maine’s Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions on April 21 at 3PM as he discusses his reporting on the challenges Maine faces in building resilience to flooding and what solutions exist at the state and local levels to prepare Maine for what’s to come.
URL:https://mainecan.network/event/talk-reconciling-with-resilience-how-maine-can-bounce-back-from-floods/
LOCATION:Mitchell Center\, 107 Norman Smith Hall\, UMaine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:Educational Event,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250423T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250423T171500
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SUMMARY:Sierra Club Maine - Community Conversation: Hans Neu; Disowned Prophet of "Mega-Dams = Eco-Disaster
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Roger Wheeler\, President of Friends of Sebago Lake (Maine). Over 50 years ago\, Hans Neu\, a leading Canadian government oceanographer warned that the continued building of large hydropower projects on subarctic and Arctic rivers in Canada and Russia could warm the climate\, alter ocean currents with global implications\, and bring grave harm to the fisheries of the Northwest Atlantic. Present available climate data supports the science behind his warnings. In this webinar we will resurrect the buried warnings of the scientist who was ahead of his time\, but right on time!
URL:https://mainecan.network/event/community-conversation-hans-neu-disowned-prophet-of-mega-dams-eco-disaster/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Discussion
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250430
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250501
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SUMMARY:ACTT Community-Driven Energy Planning Workshop Series
DESCRIPTION:ACTT is excited to bring the community-driven energy planning workshop and accompanying game to MDI. Save the date to join us Wednesday evening\, April 30 for collaborative learning\, game playing\, dinner\, and fun! We will follow up with specifics regarding location and time. This workshop is appropriate for participants ages 13 and older and is ideal for a mixture of formal and informal community leaders and interested citizens. Anyone with an interest in MDI’s energy future is encouraged to attend.
URL:https://mainecan.network/event/community-driven-energy-planning-workshop-series/
LOCATION:ME
CATEGORIES:Educational Event
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