Storm Response and Preparedness in Working Waterfront Communities

Monday, January 27, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m., Neighborhood House, Northeast Harbor

Offered through Maine Sea Grant, in collaboration with ACTT, the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Maine Coast Heritage Trust and Mount Desert Island Historical Society

Read more and register online today!

Join us for vital community conversations to enhance our response, preparedness and resilience in the face of increasing storm events. These conversations, run by Maine Sea Grant, are occurring throughout the state during December 2024 and January 2025. The events explore how we can better respond to and prepare for future storms like the ones that hit us last January. Each convening is being organized collaboratively with local leaders and contacts, and we are grateful for their help!

The goals of this effort are to:

• Create space for community members across diverse sectors to take stock of their working waterfronts within the context of the community’s resilience since the storms. 

• Share resilience and working waterfront planning work across the region: recent, underway, or planned.  

• Learn about resources for public and private working waterfront resilience.

• Identify systems and networks that would be useful to have in place locally to support working waterfronts in anticipation of future storms. 

Dinner with be provided!

Read more and register on Maine Sea Grants website here.

Providing testimony is a cornerstone of the democratic process, and an effective way for legislators to understand the gravity of a bill’s potential impact, positive or negative. This workshop will give citizens the tools to provide meaningful testimony. In addition, we will take a look at policy ideas that are being considered this session and how they can be shaped from the perspective of community-driven climate action with a specific focus on bills related to community-driven climate action. Every session, policy that shapes climate action is considered by our State Legislature, and is shaped by the voices of people working within our communities through the testimony process. Join Ezra Sassaman and Gus La Casse on Zoom at 6:00pm on January 28 to learn more about providing testimony. Feel free to reach out to gus@aclimatetothrive.org with any questions.