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New Smart Growth Awards Illustrate Maine: The Way Life Should Be MaineBiz featured the first six winners of the Maine Smart Growth Awards in their October 25th, 2018 article. Read the article here » More information about the 2018 & future Maine Smart Growth Awards available here: Maine Smart Growth Awards Site »
The 2018 Annual GrowSmart Maine Summit on October 11th in Bangor brought together leaders and doers from around the state and the nation to share information and inspiration. News Feature from Fox 22 in Bangor: https://www.foxbangor.com/news/item/45252-growsmart-maine-summit-focuses-on-rural-growth Full Event Info with more photos: http://growsmartmaine.org/events/annual-summit-2018/
The Elmina B Sewall Foundation provided $20,000 in support of the organization’s mission. This grant is made through the Healthy People Healthy Places/Integration of Environment and Human Well-being program area that supports organizations using a deliberate, unified approach to enhancing well-being, prosperity and resiliency of people, communities and nature. “The resources offered by the Sewall…
June 25 2018 GrowSmart Maine continues to add quality resources to our resource library. Check out our newest addition: A guide to Local Outreach & Advocacy This and other resources on protecting farmland, reducing sprawl, housing solutions and more are available here: Educational Briefs
Smart growth plans and projects to receive public recognition Maine Smart Growth Awards nominations sought
GrowSmart Maine Executive Director NancySmith was invited to be part of a roundtable hosted by Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree to share stories of how the proposed federal tax reform bill cuts valuable and proven programs & deductions and will hurt Mainers and Maine communities. From a dairy farmer to a real estate advocate, it…
November 3, 2017 Members of GrowSmart Maine’s Board of Directors published an Op Ed piece in Portland Press Herald in opposition to the Question 2 on the Portland Ballot as it would allow the feelings of a very few to dictate growth in the city. Click HERE to see the full commentary piece on the…
The GrowSmart Maine 2017 Summit & Annual Meeting was a great success! The Summit was held in Westbrook on October 18th, 2017 and included panel presentations & walking tours in the downtown followed by relevant smart growth topics discussed by experts from around Maine & beyond. WGME CBS 13 was on site and made this…
Multiple Bangor area news outlets visited the Sept 19th Forum: The Case For Walkability – Health, Economic Development, and Sustainability hosted by GrowSmart Maine and a collection of local organizations and individuals. The event was held in the new Bangor Arts Exchange space in the Nichols Building on Exchange Street. Three breakout sessions and a…
PRESS RELEASE 8/23/2017 The Katahdin Region is seeing much change, as residents actively seek out new opportunities for dormant paper mill properties and the Katahdin Woods & Waters National Monument completes its first year within the National Park Service. GrowSmart Maine worked with community members from Medway, Millinocket and East Millinocket on a short-term project…