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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 …

POSTPONED Future Focus – Season Finale!

EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED   Future Focus A 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 …

Up for Grabs – The Battles Over Maine’s Public Lands

Join PPL and the Southern Maine Conservation Collaborative on Wednesday, May 26th at 5:30pm for a presentation by author and former Maine Audubon director Thomas Urquhart on the exciting story of Maine’s Public Reserved Lands from colonial times to statehood in 1820 to the present as related in his new book Up For Grabs: Timber …

WHAT HAPPENED HERE?

Revisiting place through the lens of racial history: A work session with Atlantic Black Box. Join us on June 3rd, for this follow up virtual work session to the March 3rd presentation, with Meadow Dibble and Dr. Kate McMahon of Atlantic Black Box. The session is designed for conservationists interested in and committed to: learning …

Understanding the Fascinating Life Cycle of Native Plants

Join us for a presentation by Wild Seed Project founder and Executive Director Heather McCargo on the fascinating lives of native plants and how you can propagate and help preserve them. In this live virtual program Heather McCargo (Executive Director of the Wild Seed Project) will explore the fascinating reproductive life cycle of New England …

Renowned author and environmentalist Rick Bass to return to Portland’s Mechanics’ Hall with special live music performances.

Mechanic’s Hall 519 Congress Street, Portland, ME, United States

JOIN US Mechanic's Hall presents an evening with Author Rick Bass, Halcyon String Quartet, & special musical guests on Wednesday, August 11 from 7:00p.m.-9:00p.m.. Rick Bass, best known for his fiction and non-fiction story collections, will read from his recent work and discuss efforts to protect an ancient rainforest from the Black Ram logging project …