Climate & Community

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.

Host: Brianna Cunliffe

 

Description: Climate & Community covers the work of WindowDressers, a volunteer-driven nonprofit dedicated to helping reduce heating costs and fossil fuel consumption for Maine homes through hosting community builds to produce low-cost insulating window inserts that function as custom, interior-mounted storm windows. We hear from local coordinator Mark Sullivan.  Learn more at windowdressers.org/.

 

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 “Coast Lines MDI”, a collaboration between artist Jennifer Steen Booher, Maine Coast Heritage Trust, MDI Historical Society, and the Schoodic Institute, that helps communities visualize future sea level rise on MDI’s coast in a collaborative installation. Learn more at schoodicinstitute.org/coast-lines/.

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.