Portland Sustainability Series
Join Linda Woodard, Scarborough Marsh Audubon Center Director, for this in-depth look at the birds of Maine's largest saltmarsh. Participants will not only learn about these birds but will, also, receive some tips on identification and where to find them. Hundreds of bird species use this unique ecosystem as a migratory stop over, summer nesting …
Future Focus
Speaker Series Featuring Maine's Youth Climate Justice Activists Young adults throughout Maine are innovating, organizing, and leading efforts to connect and address the most pressing social and environmental issues we face, and many have garnered statewide, national, and international recognition and accolades. Join us for a youth-led monthly webinar series highlighting youth climate justice activists …
Portland Sustainability Series
One Climate Future, Charting a Course for Portland and South Portland Normally held the fourth Wednesday of the month, the November edition of the series has been moved to the first week of December due to the Thanksgiving holiday. Virtual Event via Zoom from 5:30p.m. - 7:00p.m. - Click here for Zoom info Our businesses, …
Future Focus
Speaker Series Featuring Maine's Youth Climate Justice Activists Young adults throughout Maine are innovating, organizing, and leading efforts to connect and address the most pressing social and environmental issues we face, and many have garnered statewide, national, and international recognition and accolades. Join us for a youth-led monthly webinar series highlighting youth climate justice activists …
Portland Sustainability Series
Preserving land and history: the story of Bishop Healy's cottage on Little Diamond Island. Earlier this year, the Oceanside Conservation Trust preserved two significant waterfront lots on Little Diamond Island. Although today the lots are covered with mature woods and look as if they have always been so, in fact one of them was once …
Future Focus: Class and race in rural areas.
Speaker Series Featuring Maine's Youth Climate Justice Activists Young adults throughout Maine are innovating, organizing, and leading efforts to connect and address the most pressing social and environmental issues we face, and many have garnered statewide, national, and international recognition and accolades. Join us for a youth-led monthly webinar series highlighting youth climate justice activists …
Portland Sustainability Series
Water World – Portland Water District and the Natural and Built Infrastructure for Treating and Managing Water. Join us for a discussion with Portland Water District environmental manager Paul Thomas Hunt about the natural and built systems involved in local and regional water management. In reality, water manages itself. Drops of water are carried in …
Future Focus: Creativity and Climate Action with Jess Cooper
Speaker Series Featuring Maine's Youth Climate Justice Activists Young adults throughout Maine are innovating, organizing, and leading efforts to connect and address the most pressing social and environmental issues we face, and many have garnered statewide, national, and international recognition and accolades. Join us for a youth-led monthly webinar series highlighting youth climate justice activists …
Atlantic Black Box
Learning to Read the Maine Landscape Through the Lens of Racial History Guest Speakers: Meadow Dibble and Kate McMahon RSVP and learn more here New England has long repressed the memory of its complicity in Atlantic world slavery, just as our dominant narrative has suppressed the stories of the region's free and enslaved Black and …
Portland Sustainability Series
Join us via zoom for a discussion with volunteers and staff of WindowDressers about their program to provide community members with low-cost, energy-efficient window inserts. Warm Your Neighbors And Yourselves with WindowDressers Insulating Window Inserts. Did you know that 30% of home heat loss is through windows and doors? Cold windows lead to higher heating …