Climate & Community

Host: Brianna Cunliffe

 

Description: Climate & Community continues a conversation with Emily Shanahan from the Bar Harbor Food Pantry about the intersections between food security and community resilience, focusing on ways to get involved locally. Learn more about the Downeast Gleaning initiative at healthyacadia.org/hffa-degi  and about the Hancock County Food Drive at www.hcfooddrive.org/hcfd.

 

Johannah, Brianna, Tanvi, Gus, Corey, and Beth are the team at A Climate to Thrive, a nonprofit working to build a model of community-driven, solutions-focused climate action. Since its origins around a potluck table as concerned neighbors gathered to take action on climate change, A Climate to Thrive, or ACTT, has been supporting solutions on Mount Desert Island and beyond since 2016. Learn more at www.aclimatetothrive.org.

Host: Corey McVay

 

Description: Ever wondered what exactly a “kilowatt-hour” actually is? This week, Climate & Community offers the first of several energy literacy “crash courses”.  This episode focuses on key terms and ideas related to electric power (measured in kilowatts), electric energy (measured in kilowatt-hours), and electricity demand. These terms are all discussed in the wider context of the clean energy transition.

 

Johannah, Brianna, Tanvi, Gus, Corey, and Beth are the team at A Climate to Thrive, a nonprofit working to build a model of community-driven, solutions-focused climate action. Since its origins around a potluck table as concerned neighbors gathered to take action on climate change, A Climate to Thrive, or ACTT, has been supporting solutions on Mount Desert Island and beyond since 2016. Learn more at www.aclimatetothrive.org.

Host: Tanvi Koushik

 

Description: Climate & Community covers the greenhouse gas emissions of the U.S. military, with the Pentagon’s carbon footprint surpassing that of many countries. Key international climate agreements including the Kyoto Protocols and the Paris Agreement exclude the obligation for countries to reduce their military emissions. We spoke with Lisa Savage of Maine Natural Guard, a group that invites Mainers to connect the dots between militarism and climate change. Lisa is an activist, grandmother, and retired teacher who emphasizes the need to continue building awareness around U.S. military emissions, and the need to stop the war machine.

 

Johannah, Brianna, Tanvi, Gus, Corey, and Beth are the team at A Climate to Thrive, a nonprofit working to build a model of community-driven, solutions-focused climate action. Since its origins around a potluck table as concerned neighbors gathered to take action on climate change, A Climate to Thrive, or ACTT, has been supporting solutions on Mount Desert Island and beyond since 2016. Learn more at www.aclimatetothrive.org.

Host: Brianna Cunliffe

 

Description: Climate & Community is in conversation with Emily Shanahan from the Bar Harbor Food Pantry on building community resilience and connections through food, the opportunities and challenges of tackling food waste, questions of sourcing, and striking a balance between taking action and avoiding shaming. Tune in again next week for a continuation of the conversation, and visit www.barharborfoodpantry.org/ or healthyacadia.org/hffa-degi to learn more. 

 

Johannah, Brianna, Tanvi, Gus, Corey, and Beth are the team at A Climate to Thrive, a nonprofit working to build a model of community-driven, solutions-focused climate action. Since its origins around a potluck table as concerned neighbors gathered to take action on climate change, A Climate to Thrive, or ACTT, has been supporting solutions on Mount Desert Island and beyond since 2016. Learn more at www.aclimatetothrive.org.

Host: Brianna Cunliffe

 

Description: Climate & Community covers Islesboro’s Sea Level Rise Committee’s work on planning for a large-scale adaptation project attempting to ensure that the Narrows, the one road connecting two ends of this unbridged island, continues to serve residents as sea levels rise and coastal flooding worsens. We speak with Island Institute Fellow Liv Lenfestey, who is serving as the committee’s Communications Manager, on the process so far. To learn more, visit townofislesboro.com/committees/sea-level-rise/#:~:text=About%20Our%20Work,necessary%20to%20become%20more%20resilient.

 

Johannah, Brianna, Tanvi, Gus, Corey, and Beth are the team at A Climate to Thrive, a nonprofit working to build a model of community-driven, solutions-focused climate action. Since its origins around a potluck table as concerned neighbors gathered to take action on climate change, A Climate to Thrive, or ACTT, has been supporting solutions on Mount Desert Island and beyond since 2016. Learn more at www.aclimatetothrive.org.

Host: Brianna Cunliffe

 

Description: Climate & Community covers the community meet-ups organized by the Gulf of Maine Research Institute to collect resident observations of flooding at sites up and down the Maine Coast during February’s high water events this past weekend, and speaks with Sarah White, a resident and volunteer, on the impacts she has witnessed to the preserve where she keeps a garden plot and the importance of the surrounding salt marsh for the landscape’s resilience.

 

Learn more at gmri.org/projects/coastal-flooding-community-science/, or https://schoodicinstitute.org/science/citizen-science/landscape-of-change/.

 

Johannah, Brianna, Tanvi, Gus, Corey, and Beth are the team at A Climate to Thrive, a nonprofit working to build a model of community-driven, solutions-focused climate action. Since its origins around a potluck table as concerned neighbors gathered to take action on climate change, A Climate to Thrive, or ACTT, has been supporting solutions on Mount Desert Island and beyond since 2016. Learn more at www.aclimatetothrive.org.

Host: Brianna Cunliffe

 

Description: Climate & Community continues a conversation with the Community Resilience Training series, this time focusing on nature-based solutions to climate impacts and their relevance and resonance for Maine communities. We hear from Gayle Bowness, Gulf of Maine Research Institute’s Municipal Climate Action Program Manager. To learn more about nature-based solutions, visit crsf.umaine.edu/forest-climate-change-initiative/ncs/ or www.maineresiliency.org/post/the-power-of-wetlands-an-overview-of-current-nature-based-solution-projects-in-maine.

 

Johannah, Brianna, Tanvi, Gus, Corey, and Beth are the team at A Climate to Thrive, a nonprofit working to build a model of community-driven, solutions-focused climate action. Since its origins around a potluck table as concerned neighbors gathered to take action on climate change, A Climate to Thrive, or ACTT, has been supporting solutions on Mount Desert Island and beyond since 2016. Learn more at www.aclimatetothrive.org.

Host: Brianna Cunliffe

 

Description: Climate & Community covers the Community Resilience Training offered by the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, created in partnership with the Island Institute, and funded by an Environmental Literacy Grant from NOAA, and speaks with Abby Roche, Community Development Officer with Island Institute, and Gayle Bowness,  Gulf of Maine Research Institute’s Municipal Climate Action Program Manager, about insights from this initiative up and down Maine’s coast. To learn more, visit gmri.org/projects/community-resilience-training/. 

 

Johannah, Brianna, Tanvi, Gus, Corey, and Beth are the team at A Climate to Thrive, a nonprofit working to build a model of community-driven, solutions-focused climate action. Since its origins around a potluck table as concerned neighbors gathered to take action on climate change, A Climate to Thrive, or ACTT, has been supporting solutions on Mount Desert Island and beyond since 2016. Learn more at www.aclimatetothrive.org.