Update on Making Headway in Your Community: Will We Be in Your Town Next?

by Growsmart Maine | May 19, 2016 | Economic development, economy, grants, GrowSmart, growsmart maine, gsm, Historic, historic preservation, innovation, Maine, Making Headway in Your Community, Nancy Smith, news, planning, projects, Smart growth

Making Headway in Your Community is wrapping up its first full year as a community engagement program, a partnership of the Maine Downtown Center and GrowSmart Maine. GrowSmart Maine and Maine Downtown Center are engaged with communities on the public meeting...

Wilton and Rumford to Participate in Making Headway In Your Community, a project of GrowSmart Maine and Maine Downtown Center.

by Growsmart Maine | Apr 14, 2016 | Economic development, economy, GrowSmart, growsmart maine, gsm, Maine, Making Headway in Your Community, Nancy Smith, news, projects, Smart growth

Movie Night and Community Conversation being held in each community. Wilton, Rumford – The communities of Wilton and Rumford have been chosen to participate in Making Headway In Your Community, a joint community development program of GrowSmart Maine and the Maine...

Our April Forum: 21st Century Transportation: Shared Vehicles, E-Bikes and their Implications for a Smart Growth Economy in Maine

by Growsmart Maine | Apr 13, 2016 | economy, efficiency, General, GrowSmart, growsmart maine, Highway, innovation, Maine, Portland, Smart growth, transportation

The future of transportation is not as far away as you think…and it may look a lot different than you’re expecting. Join us from 8 to 10 am on April 28 at Cyclemania in Portland for a GrowSmart Maine forum on how technology and the sharing economy is changing...

GrowSmart Maine Testifies in Favor of LD 1649, “An Act to Modernize Maine’s Solar Power Policy and Encourage Economic Development”

by Growsmart Maine | Mar 17, 2016 | climate change, Economic development, economy, efficiency, energy, GrowSmart, growsmart maine, gsm, innovation, legislature, Maine, Nancy Smith, news, regulation, solar

Testimony of Nancy Smith, Executive Director of GrowSmart Maine in support of LD 1649 “An Act to Modernize Maine’s Solar Power Policy and Encourage Economic Development” March 16, 2015 Senator Woodsome, Representative Dion and members of the Joint Standing...

What’s Happening in Augusta

by Growsmart Maine | Feb 19, 2016 | bonds, climate change, denmark, Economic development, economy, efficiency, energy, GrowSmart, growsmart maine, gsm, Historic, historic preservation, legislature, Maine, news, referendum, regulation, tax credit

Legislative committees seem to be holding to a strategy of focusing on those bills with strong bipartisan support.  There are exceptions, but for the most part if a bill does not have strong support in committee, it will not advance this year.  No word still on when...

GrowSmart Maine Announces Staffing Changes

by Growsmart Maine | Jan 25, 2016 | GrowSmart, growsmart maine, gsm, Maine, news

Portland – GrowSmart Maine is pleased to announce the addition of Janet Sawyer of Dover-Foxcroft as Business Development Director and the transition of Andrew Zarro from Development Director to Community Engagement Director.  “With these changes”, says Executive...