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Art & Climate Change
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"The Art of Re-climation" Exhibit
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<strong>"<a href="https://abcdbelfast.omeka.net/exhibits/show/art-of-reclimation/exhibit">The Art of Re-Climation</a>”</strong> is a curated art exhibit shown in the Belfast Free Library's Kramer Gallery during April & May 2022.<br /><br />Pieces are also exhibited <strong><a href="https://abcdbelfast.omeka.net/exhibits/show/art-of-reclimation/exhibit">here in this online digital collection</a>.</strong><br /><br /><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmIjj6sO5SE&list=PL4CxlaYUpHJzSh2CRTrclWYTg6lnfzVCN&index=9" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">View a video walk-through of the exhibit</a> </strong>in the Kramer Gallery. <br /><br />In response to the current climate crisis, the exhibit expresses climate change impacts, concerns and hopes for a future of reclaiming the earth’s climate balance.<br /><br /><strong>View written comments from exhibit visitors </strong>(above in a PDF file).<br /><br />This exhibit, part of the All of Belfast: Climate Dialogues (ABCD) project of the Belfast Free Library, was curated by Belfast artist Mj Viano Crowe and Brenda Harrington, program librarian at the Library.
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ABCD & Belfast Free Libary
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April 5 - May 28, 2022
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Community Climate Conversations
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<p>Finding Hope in the Face of Climate Change: Presentation with Susan B. Inches</p>
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The ABCD project and the Belfast Free Library hosted a wonderful presentation on November 30, 2021 with author Sue Inches, "<em><a href="https://youtu.be/H-J6b4UaYDA" target="_blank" title="Finding Hope in the Face of Climate Change" rel="noreferrer noopener">Finding Hope in the Face of Climate Change</a></em>." You can <strong><a href="https://youtu.be/H-J6b4UaYDA" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">watch the presentation here on the Library's YouTube channel</a></strong>. <br /><br />Sue talked about "<strong>the power of your story</strong>." <br /><br />Sharing our stories creates human connections. These connections can help cut through opposing beliefs. They can create a platform for dialogue and change. Our stories can help shine a light on the truth. <br /><br /><strong>So, why does the All of Belfast: Climate Dialogues (ABCD) project want to collect YOUR stories around climate change?</strong> <br /><br />Simply put, we want Belfast area citizens' stories to: <br /><ul><li>Illuminate the issues you care about most - Help neighbors and citizens connect with each other on shared concerns</li>
<li>Inspire us to take hopeful action on the things we care about</li>
<li>Celebrate the things Belfast is already doing to address the climate crisis.</li>
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Read others' stories, and add your own here on the ABCD website!
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finding hope
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Art & Climate Change
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An Introduction to: “The Warming Sea” ~ A Symphony About Climate Change by Lucas Richman
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On November 4, 2021, All of Belfast: Climate Dialogues and the Belfast Free Library hosted a heartwarming and inspiring Zoom presentation, <em>"An Introduction to “The Warming Sea”, A Symphony About Climate Change by Lucas Richman."</em> <br /><br />You can <strong><a href="https://youtu.be/j9U2QsTu_Xo" target="_blank" title="An Introduction to: “The Warming Sea” a symphony about Climate Change by Lucas Richman" rel="noreferrer noopener">check out the recording here on our YouTube channel.</a></strong> <br /><br /><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q">
<div>"<strong><a href="https://www.thewarmingsea.me/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Warming Sea</a></strong>" is a symphonic exploration of hope in the face of climate change which will premiere in March 2022. Learn about this amazing collaboration between <strong><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl gpro0wi8 q66pz984 b1v8xokw" href="https://www.mainesciencefestival.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span class="nc684nl6">Maine Science Festival</span></a></strong>, <strong><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl gpro0wi8 q66pz984 b1v8xokw" href="https://www.bangorsymphony.org/show/the-warming-sea/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span class="nc684nl6">Bangor Symphony Orchestra</span></a></strong>, and Grammy-award winning <strong><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl gpro0wi8 q66pz984 b1v8xokw" href="https://lucasrichman.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span class="nc684nl6">Lucas Richman: Conductor/Composer</span></a></strong>.<br /><br />The foundation for creating "The Warming Sea" was a series of interviews with scientists, fisheries experts, and others who are knowledgeable about climate change in the Gulf of Maine... and with Maine middle school students. Richman asked each class of students, "‘What would you want to feel at the end of this piece? What would be an important message for you and your generation?’ And invariably, each class came up with the word hope.”</div>
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<br />What gives YOU hope around climate change? <br /><br />Folks in the audience at this Zoom presentation commented about action, and community: <br /><em>Get involved, do something, and do it with other people. </em><br /><br />Sarah Kirn, our ABCD team member who helped facilitate the follow-up conversation with the presenters Lucas Richman and Kate Dickerson of the Maine Science Festival, shares her reflection: <br /><br /><em>"Hope really is a muscle. You make a decision to be hopeful, you find true things to be legitimately hopeful about, and you search out more things (and contribute to them, in whatever form you can) to be hopeful about, and keep the conversation there."</em>
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November 4, 2021
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Belfast Free Library
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Climate Change in Belfast Area Farms & Gardens
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<h2>Growing Resilience: Local Farmers Respond to Climate Change</h2>
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The ABCD team has been wondering about how local people's livelihoods and businesses are being affected by climate change. We recently learned just how challenging the effects are for our Waldo County farmer friends, and what they are doing to adapt. <br /><h2>Learning how our farmers are affected by climate change</h2>
<span>On January 20th, 2022, ABCD hosted a wonderful and eye-opening panel discussion with three local farmers: Daisy Beal from <strong><a href="https://daisychainfarm.com/" target="_blank" title="Daisychain Farm" rel="noreferrer noopener">Daisychain Farm</a></strong>, Noami Brautigam from <strong><a href="https://www.secondfrostfarm.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Second Frost Farm</a></strong> (renamed since this event from Dickey Hill Farm), and Mike Bahner from <strong><a href="https://bahnerfarm.com/" target="_blank" title="Bahner Farm" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bahner Farm</a></strong>.</span><br /><br />We invite you to check out the excellent <strong><a href="https://waldo.villagesoup.com/2022/01/25/three-local-farmers-discuss-climate-related-challenges-during-virtual-library-discussion/" target="_blank" title="Three local farmers discuss climate-related challenges in virtual panel" rel="noreferrer noopener">article from the Village Soup</a></strong>, and <strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmykTaYfODc&t=335s" target="_blank" title="Growing Resilience: Local Farmers Respond to Climate Change" rel="noreferrer noopener">watch the recording</a></strong> of our discussion with the farmers. What follows is our summary of the major themes of the evening.<br /><br /><h2>Winter greens woes, late frosts, water, and infrastructure challenges</h2>
The three farms share many of the same challenges due to climate change. For Bahner Farm and Dickey Hill Farm, growing winter greens is tricky business: it is really difficult to hold the greens when we have a mild fall - they grow fast, they grow a lot more, and there is regrowth after cutting, but not enough to harvest again. A few years ago when we had torrential winter rains, Dickey Hill Farm experienced rain flooding in over ice in the high tunnels of winter greens. <br /><br />High tunnel growing, while it helps mitigate some of the challenges of extreme weather, can also exacerbate the effects; for example last spring when unseasonably hot weather killed an entire crop of snap peas at Dickey Hill. The financial impacts are obvious; but there can also be serious impacts to the health of farm staff working in hot conditions. <br /><br />Daisychain Farm described how frost in later spring, after things warm up early, kills the strawberry blossoms and severely affects the crop size and quality. Daisychain has not yet chosen to implement high tunnel growing for the protection it could offer strawberry crops, because of how easily tunnels can be damaged in high winds; farm aesthetics; and short supply during the pandemic. (Also, as discussed in the Q&A at the end, high tunnel infrastructure is very costly but not insurable.) <br /><br />Another challenge to Daisychain’s crops <span style="font-weight:400;">is finding raspberry varieties hardy enough to handle the weather extremes. Two of their three planted varieties failed and needed to be replaced.</span> Preventing winds from drying out raspberry plants is a continuing thorny problem as well. <br /><br />Water is an ongoing challenge - with extreme weather, there is often too little or too much water for crops. Irrigation systems are now an imperative for Bahner Farm; Dickey Hill dug a second well this summer to cope with drought. All three farmers echoed the importance of enhancing soil health, as soil high in organic matter can absorb and hold more water. Making compost and sowing cover crops, preventing runoff, and practicing rotational cropping and grazing are all key to soil building and resilience. <br /><h2>Sources of help and hope</h2>
When the farmers were asked, <em>“What would you want your customers to appreciate about the challenges you’re dealing with?”</em>, there were again some common threads.<br /><br />All felt grateful for the “fantastic” help from the <strong><a href="https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/site/me/home/" target="_blank" title="USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)" rel="noreferrer noopener">USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)</a></strong> programs, <span style="font-weight:400;">and expressed hope that their customers would support these essential federal programs.</span> In addition to farm improvements and technical assistance, the NRCS grants and programs include conservation projects such as managing woodlands, removing invasive species, and creating pollinator habitats. <br /><br />The farmers appreciate the fact that the general public is now talking about - and acting more on - the climate crisis. A lot of their customers are home gardeners, and share in some of their concerns and challenges, although on a much smaller scale. <br /><br />There was also agreement among the farmers that they feel lucky to be farming in Waldo County among a strong network of peers <span style="font-weight:400;">with whom they can share and learn</span>. This was evident in the final portion of the discussion, where the three panelists asked questions of one another and shared more about their common concerns. As Noami expressed: <em>“The more I hear people acknowledge the struggles, the less alone I feel.”</em> <br /><br /><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmykTaYfODc&t=335s" target="_blank" title="Growing Resilience: Local Farmers Respond to Climate Change" rel="noreferrer noopener">Watch the full video recording of the farmer panel discussion on the Library’s YouTube channel</a></strong> <br /><br /><br /><em>~~~~~~~~~</em><br /><strong>The ABCD Team wishes to thank Daisy, Mike and Noami for the rich discussion and insights into resilient farming in the face of climate change. Thank you all!</strong> <br /><h2>We also want to ask all Waldo County folks: How has climate change affected YOUR livelihood or business?</h2>
<p>We invite you to <a href="https://abcdbelfast.omeka.net/share" title="Share how climate change has affected your business or livelihood"><strong>share how climate change has affected YOUR business or job</strong></a> here on the ABCD website. Sharing these stories in our Belfast area community is so important:</p>
<p>It can help us connect with each other about the impacts we are experiencing.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:400;">It helps us recognize that we aren't alone.</span></p>
<p>It helps us figure out more ways to address these issues together.</p>
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January 20, 2022
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Bahner Farm<br />Daisychain Farm<br />Second Frost Farm (formerly Dickey Hill Farm)<br />Belfast Free Library
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<h2>Maine’s Climate Future: The Role of Carbon Management in Farms and Forests with Dr. Ivan Fernandez</h2>
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This presentation on January 25, 2022 addressed three main topics. Dr. Ivan Fernandez <span>from the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine </span>summarized key findings from climate assessments focused on Maine, primarily the Maine’s Climate Future reports and the assessment report of the Maine Climate Council’s Scientific and Technical Subcommittee. <br /><br />He discussed how farms and forests can contribute to what is often called ‘Natural Climate Solutions’. He talked about soils and soil health, primarily considering soils on farms, and how enhancing soil organic carbon can promote both the resilience of the soil in light of climate risks as well as contribute to reducing atmospheric carbon concentrations. The presentation also summarizes forest management recommendations from the recent Governor’s Task Force on a Forest Carbon Program in Maine. <br /><br /><em>Dr. Fernandez is a Professor in the School of Forest Resources, Climate Change Institute, and School of Food and Agriculture at the University of Maine. He has served on various U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board committees in Washington DC since 2000. He represents the University of Maine in the USDA Northeast Climate Hub and has been involved in leading the Maine’s Climate Future assessments in 2009, 2015, and 2020.<br /><br /></em>This presentation was part of the <em><strong>Belfast Garden Club Evening Lecture Series</strong></em><span> co-sponsored by All of Belfast Climate Dialogues, a project of the Belfast Free Library. This Winter 2022 series focuses on the effects of the climate crisis on our forests, farms, gardens and food supply.<br /><br /><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVpNXEwjbwk" target="_blank" title="Maine’s Climate Future: The Role of Carbon Management in Farms and Forests with Dr. Ivan Fernandez" rel="noreferrer noopener">Watch the full recording here on the Library's YouTube channel</a></strong>.</span>
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January 25, 2022
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<h2>Browntail Moth and What You Need to Know</h2>
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On February 1st, 2022, the Belfast Free Library and the Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition hosted this virtual presentation with entomologist Tom Schmeelk. <br /><br />Browntail moth is a non-native species that poses human health risks as well as concerns for forest health. This species is currently experiencing a population boom in Maine. This presentation covered lifecycle, history, current situation and what to look for as well as management and mitigation strategies. Also discussed: emerald ash borer, one of the more recent threats to Maine’s forest. <br /><br /><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgBQEFYXzT8&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank" title="Browntail Moth and What You Need to Know" rel="noreferrer noopener">Watch the full recording here</a></strong> <br /><br /><em>Tom Schmeelk is an Entomologist with the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry and the program lead on the browntail moth.</em> <br /><br />This program was co-sponsored with the All of Belfast Climate Dialogues project, Belfast Garden Club, Friends of Belfast Parks, and Friends of Sears Island.
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ABCD Team
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February 1, 2022
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Belfast Garden Club
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Community Climate Conversations
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The Maine Offshore Wind Initiative: How Maine is Charting Our Own Course
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In this presentation, Stephanie Watson, Maine Offshore Wind Program Manager in the Governor’s Energy Office, provided an overview of the Maine Offshore Wind Initiative established by Governor Mills in 2019, with a focus on the Maine Offshore Wind Roadmap. The Roadmap is an economic development plan currently underway with broad stakeholder engagement. The goal of the Roadmap is to identify the best course for Maine to maximize benefits of the rapidly growing offshore wind sector to meet clean energy and economic goals, while sustaining existing ocean users and the environment.<br /><h3><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfpUyv8YvSA" target="_blank" title="The Maine Offshore Wind Initiative: How Maine is Charting Our Own Course" rel="noreferrer noopener">Watch the recording of the presentation here</a></strong></h3>
<br />This program was co-sponsored by the <a href="http://belfastbaywatershed.org/" target="_blank" title="Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition" rel="noreferrer noopener">Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition</a> and the All of Belfast: Climate Dialogues (ABCD) project of the Belfast Free Library.
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Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition
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February 17, 2022
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Climate Change in Belfast Area Farms & Gardens
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<h2>Growing Food and Ornamentals in a Changing Climate</h2>
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<p>This program was the second in the<span> </span><a href="https://belfastgardenclub.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Belfast Garden Club</a>’s Evening Lecture Series co-sponsored by the All of Belfast Climate Dialogues, a project of the Belfast Free Library.</p>
<p>Presenters Haley Jean and Sara Keleman, M.S. students at the University of Maine School of Food and Agriculture, gave an overview of global climate change, with special attention to effects in Maine and the Northeast. They discussed the local effects of global weather patterns and the challenges that they may pose to those who grow vegetables, fruit, and flowers in our region, and suggested ways to mitigate some of the more confounding challenges. The talk also showcased tools for learning about, understanding, and addressing climate change impacts.</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mQEPHrIrRY&list=PL4CxlaYUpHJzSh2CRTrclWYTg6lnfzVCN&index=9&t=2s" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">View the recording here</a></strong></p>
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February 22, 2022
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Belfast Garden Club
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Symposium Report
Waldo County Climate Change Symposium:
Preparing for Tomorrow - Our Climate Future
The Climate Change Symposium, was designed by the Belfast Climate Crisis Committee and the All of
Belfast Climate Dialogues team as the first step in an ongoing conversation to foster collaboration and
ACTION. In this report, we suggest next steps for that collaboration and summarize the content of the
presentations made by participating groups.
Overview
The Symposium was held as a ZOOM Meeting on January 22, 2022 in partnership with the Belfast
Free Library’s All of Belfast Climate Dialogues (ABCD), a community engagement project, and the
Belfast Climate Crisis Committee. (CCC)
The All of Belfast Climate Dialogues team included Brenda Harrington, Sarah Kirn, and Misty Mallar.
Jon Beal, Belfast Climate Crisis Committee Chairperson, presented the purpose and ground rules for
the Symposium. Jerry Brand, a CCC member, helped organize the Symposium and document the
report.
Dr. Cassaundra Rose of the Maine Climate Council opened our event with a succinct presentation on
the science of climate change in our area, and the planned response set forth in the “Maine Won’t
Wait” climate action plan. Dr. Rose shared the slides from her presentation. A link to these can be
found in the symposium notes in our Padlet page, a virtual ‘whiteboard/bulletin board’ application
we used to document the presentations. The Padlet notes are also attached as a PDF file.
Fifteen Waldo County organizations with climate change-related activities attended the symposium.
Each gave a 5-minute presentation about who they are, their present activities related to climate
change, and their future plans. A summary of each presentation is included at the end of this report.
Additional notes, including links to websites and slides, may be found in our meeting Padlet.
Several City officials and legislators were invited to listen. Senator Chip Curry (Waldo County) and
Representative Jan Dodge (Belfast, Northport, and Waldo District 97) both attended the entire program
and took part in discussions at the end.
Attendees expressed enthusiasm for having the opportunity to learn about the various climate-related
activities already underway in Waldo County. There was general agreement on the value of staying
connected in the future, and a call for the Belfast Free Library to serve as a “clearinghouse” to share
information.
�After the symposium, the organizers discussed immediate next steps, including the following:
1.
Complete this report, distribute it to attendees and invitees to the Symposium.
2.
Solicit input from attending organizations and others to assist the Climate Crisis Committee’s
development of a Climate Action Plan for Belfast.
3.
Create a spreadsheet of organizations, their contact information, and brief summary of their
activities to serve as a “clearinghouse” of information to support future collaboration and
coordination.
Requested Actions
1.
We encourage all of the invited organizations, including those who could not attend, to share
this report with their membership.
2.
We ask you to give us input for developing a Belfast Climate Action Plan.
CCC and ABCD want your input as we develop a plan for the City of Belfast and the Belfast
community to adapt to climate change, and to reduce our production of the greenhouse gasses
which are causing global warming. ABCD has created a web page where you can input your
priorities and suggestions for the plan. Once drafted, the plan will be submitted to the Belfast
City Council for discussion, public review, and adoption. Your input of ideas will be valuable
to the drafters, and will be an important indication of public support.
Click here to access the web page survey. Feel free to submit as many ideas you think are
useful.
3.
We have created a clearing house for the community to locate and share information. The
ABCD project has created a shareable google spreadsheet that can be edited and updated by the
invited organizations and viewed by the community. Participants should have already received
an email invitation to review your organization’s information and edit the contact information.
Let us know if you did not get it. Our hope is that the spreadsheet will encourage you to check
out each other’s organizations and give some thought to how you might work together.
�Presentation Summaries
The following organizations were represented in 3 groups, each giving a 5 minute presentation. Longer
summaries of each presentation are available for viewing on the Padlet.
Group 1:
Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition - Greg Biddinger
The BBWC is very active in natural resource conservation and education, both with area schools and
adults. Climate Change mitigation and adaptation is embedded in all of their initiatives and
programs, such as collaboration on watershed assessments.
Friends of Belfast Parks - Bonnie Black
The Friends have been active since 1996, supporting the Belfast Parks and Recreation Department with
volunteers and fundraising. They promote greenway expansion and planting resilient native species as
a means of combating the effects of climate change.
BAHS (Belfast Area High School) Dave Thomas & Jonah Lovejoy
Dave Thomas, as a teacher and advisor, and Jonah Lovejoy, as a student representative, discussed the
formal courses and student activity groups that focus on aspects of climate change. The very significant
results have been development of sensors for tide levels; the resulting information is being analyzed
and put into a database that provides a hyperlocal focus. Other projects include composting and storm
water runoff mitigation. Very inspiring: these students are the future!
Island Institute - Abby Roche
The focus of the Island Institute is to sustain and enrich life for those living on the islands off the
Maine Coast through education, advocacy, and leadership. They have 4 climate change initiatives:
decarbonization, transition to clean energy, resilience to sea level rise, and improved island economies.
They offer Community Energy Spark! and Shore Up grants.
MOFGA (Maine Organic Farmers & Gardeners Assoc.) - Heather Spaulding
MOFGA, in its long history, has been focused on creating food systems that are healthy, fair for all,
and based on organic practices. (Editorial Comment: increased food insecurity is a very likely
consequence of climate change.) A focus on organic practices that build soil fertility is a major
initiative. They are policy advocates for the support of Maine agriculture and farmers in combating
climate change.
UMaine/Waldo County Cooperative Extension Service- Rick Kersbergen
The Cooperative Extension Service conducts research, has initiatives, and educational programs that
help farmers in Maine adapt to climate change and build resiliency. A particular focus is in building
soils with increased fertility and capability for absorbing periodic intense rainfall and withstanding
drought conditions, and crops that build sustainable farming systems.
�Group 2:
Belfast Climate Crisis Committee - Jon Beal
The Belfast CCC is an advisory committee to the Belfast City Council. Its entire focus is on
remediation and adaptation of the effects of climate change in the City of Belfast, and in Waldo
County. It proposes policy for consideration by the Council, conducts numerous studies, public forums,
and educational programs, and has engaged in cooperative programs for information databases, such as
a weather station and tidal gauges.
Belfast Garden Club- Susan Conard
The Garden Club has been active since 1928, and its volunteers are responsible for the planting and
upkeep of many of the gardens that make Belfast a beautiful city. In recent years, an emphasis has been
on educational seminars and activities that emphasize adaptation, mitigation and resilience to the new
challenges represented by climate change; such as the Evening Lecture series, and the RSU School
Garden Collaborative.
Waldo County Bounty- Lissa Widdoff
Waldo County Bounty started in 2020 as a response to the pandemic-related increase in food
insecurity. It is a program to support community farmers in supplying locally raised fruits and
vegetables to all Waldo County food pantries and soup kitchens, and distribution to individuals by food
boxes. WCB collaborates with other programs, and seeks to improve infrastructure and resilient
farming systems.
Window Dressers- Corliss Davis
Window Dressers was formed 12 years ago in Rockland as a volunteer organization to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions and increase efficiency by building internal storm windows. The program
spread to volunteer community builds in Belfast and Searsport; and ultimately throughout Maine and
into New Hampshire and Vermont. In the Builds, volunteers assemble window kits to fill orders from
individuals, whose window dimensions were precisely measured by teams. When in place the inserts
substantially reduce the leakage of cold air and insulate with double glazing. A substantial percentage
of inserts are provided at very low cost to low-income customers. Last year, nearly 6,200 inserts were
built in ME and Vermont, with an estimated savings of nearly 1,500,000 pounds of CO2 saved.
Universalist Unitarian Church Climate Action Team- Marje Stickler
The UU Church has become a Green Sanctuary church, and formed a Community Action Group
focusing on climate change mitigation and education. They have conducted 4 educational ZOOM
sessions in collaboration with an Ellsworth church on climate issues. They have joined the Perkins
Road Solar Subscription, and are working on an EICDA carbon dividend tax.
Group 3:
St. Margaret’s Church- Mary Rackmales
St Margaret’s has long been active in reducing food insecurity and families through the Greater Belfast
Area Ministries’ food pantry and the Game Loft. Committee members are working to educate and
encourage parishioners on climate change and mitigation measures. They are eager to learn from and
collaborate with other organizations.
�Citizens Climate Lobby- Peter Millard
The Belfast chapter of the national CCL is focused on advocacy for the Energy Innovation and Carbon
Dividend (EICDA), HR 2307. This legislation puts a price on carbon based fuel use, collects fees, and
would return them to citizens.
ABCD (All Belfast Climate Dialogues) - Brenda Harrington
The ABCD is a community engagement project of the Belfast Free Library, funded by a grant from the
Institute of Museum and Library Services. It sponsors and facilitates discussions around Climate
Change and its impacts on local people. The intent is to facilitate communication across the community
on the impacts on lives and how adaptation is possible.
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padlet.com/abcd46/dnxf0nl94lw11ub5
Waldo County Climate Change Symposium: Preparing
for Tomorrow - Our Climate Future
Please add your thoughts and comments!
ABCD46 JAN 12, 2022 03:25PM
What each org is doing to respond
to climate change
ABCD46 JAN 27, 2022 07:39PM
Maine Won't Wait - keynote presentation by
Dr. Cassaundra Rose
A few of the resources I mentioned this morning:
Community Resilience Partnership,
https://www.maine.gov/future/climate/community-resiliencepartnership
http://mainewontwait.org/
Support conservation + stewardship of the watershed. Programs:
environmental literacy, recreational opptys, community
sustainability, watershed assessments. Climate change an impt
theme thru everything! Esp. our school progs. Also: barriers to fish
passage; water quality monitoring; and starting the Sustainable
Watershed Initiative.
Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition
In this time of COVID-19, with the danger of
meeting indoors, there are plenty of ways
to get outside and enjoy the coming of
Spring in the Belfast Bay watershed. We
need to dress for and be wary of ticks, and
we need to maintain social distance from any other people we meet on
trails, but we can still enjoy being out in the fresh air and sunshine.
BELFASTBAYWATERSHED
For all climate council details and reports,
https://www.maine.gov/future/initiatives/climate/climatecouncil
ANONYMOUS JAN 22, 2022 06:54PM
BBWC Slides
220122_CRose_GOPIF_BelfastClimateSymposium
PDF document
PADLET DRIVE
ABCD46 JAN 22, 2022 06:54PM
Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition
BBWC Overview - 01212022_final
Powerpoint presentation
PADLET DRIVE
ABCD46 JAN 22, 2022 06:58PM
Friends of Belfast Parks
�Volunteers advocating for community parks & greenways, support
work of Parks & Rec Dept. 14 parks today (only 4 in 1996)! 2 new
greenways: Harborwalk & Rail Trail. Our recommendations to
Parks & Rec for addressing climate change in our parks &
communities: Promote healthy activities in nature; increase
accessibility; protect wildlife & habitat; planting native species;
environmental construction practices; green equipment; and
more.
Island Institute - Strengthening
Communities
As we enter a new year, many people are
making resolutions around their personal
health and well-being for the months
ahead. In our latest "Our Favorite Things"
blog, we highlight a few small businesses
and organizations focused on helping us
feel well and be well.
ISLAND INSTITUTE
Friends of Belfast Parks
Friends of Belfast ParksP.O. Box
947Belfast, Maine 04915 Email us
MISSION: A volunteer-based, non-profit,
501 (c) (3) organization dedicated to the
preservation, improvement, and use of
Belfast's parks and green spaces.
For more information on our adaptation/sea level rise collaborative
support, including funding and resources:
https://www.islandinstitute.org/priorities/climate-solutions/sealevel-rise/ ―
ANONYMOUS
For more information on clean energy transition work and
opportunities for support :
https://www.islandinstitute.org/priorities/climatesolutions/clean-energy/ ―
ANONYMOUS
FRIENDS OF BELFAST PARKS
ABCD46 JAN 22, 2022 06:58PM
Please feel free to reach out to Abby Roche at
aroche@islandinstitute.org ―
ANONYMOUS
Belfast Area High School
School's Climate Crisis Committee, Marine Studies, fish & wildlife
class, engineering class, others involved in many projects: Coastal
Flooding project with Gulf of Maine Research Institute & Library.
ABCD project contributions - sharing personal impacts of climate
change. Installed water level sensor at city dock providing real
time data. Planning floating buoys. Applying for grant to create a
marine institute. Composting program. Planned pollinator & food
project - looking for collabs w/ orgs like Belfast Garden Club.
Helping City's Climate Crisis Committee w/ research on
precipitation and flooding.
BAHS
Belfast Area High School 25 Lions Way,
Belfast, ME 04915 | P: (207) 338-1790 | F:
(207) 338-6713
RSU71
ABCD46 JAN 22, 2022 06:59PM
MOFGA
MOFGA creating food system that is healthy and fair to all.
Education, training, advocacy to help famers thrive; support
sustainable communities. Common Ground Fair, education,
journeyperson prog; a public policy program that is doing a lot to
address climate change. Organic mgmt and low impact forestry
critical to address climate chg effects. Advocacy for public policies
and funding. Org. mgmt to improve soil structure - it's all about
the soil! Natural and working lands working group of ME Climate
Council; public policy teach-in's, ME Healthy Soils Program;
Incentives for Soil Carbon Storage; Rep. Chellie Pingree's
Agricultural Resilient Act; ME Soil Health Tech. Assistance
Program.
Maine Organic Farmers and
Gardeners Association
ABCD46 JAN 22, 2022 06:59PM
Island Institute
Sustain Maine's island and coastal communities; bolster capacity.
Climate solutions work: clean energy, seal level rise, ocean
acidification. Marine economy, marine decarbonation work, clean
energy transitions, seal-level rise resiliency. Piloting projects &
grants for backup power, other strategic clean energy - 1-on-1
support for communities like Isleboro and Eastport. Team focused
on adaptation for sea level rise: collab oppty's including grants for
risk assessment, planning, support. Climate Conference Sept.
2022.
The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners
Association is working to transform our
food system so that local organic food is
available for all.
MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS
Per Heather Spaulding: Two upcoming offerings from MOFGA
regarding climate change: a white paper highlighting the importance
of organic management practices and the Maine Soil Health
Technical Assistance Project which MOFGA is hosting in
collaboration with Maine’s Department of Agriculture and
Cooperative Extension. This will provide grants to farmers wanting
technical assistance for implementing soil health practices. The
program will start in April. ―
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�UMaine Waldo Co Coop Extension
https://extension.umaine.edu/waldo/
Helping farmers adapt to climate change, build resiliency - adapt
to warmer, wetter, drier conditions. Alternative forage crop
systems to help balance risk. Building soils - carbon, organic
matter, no-till, cover crops, mitigate runoff and erosion. Examine
farm practices and soils based on diff cropping practices. Systems
to address weather variations. Tools to help teach: rainfall
simulator.
decisions. In October, City requested to report on precipitation,
flooding - recommendations for infrastructure and severe
weather. Working on Climate Action Plan. Collaborate w/ other
groups - Army Corps Engineers for high water mark signs; US
Harbors and 4 other local towns on tide/weather sensors. Future:
continue data collection; continue working w/ high school and
other students. Collaborate & coordinate with groups here today action, growth, positive change in the face of climate change.
Belfast Climate Crisis Committee
Belfast Maine Climate Crisis Committee is
a Belfast, Maine City committee. Mission
Statement: The CCC's mission is to
catalyze actions throughout the Belfast
community for a sustainable future while
adapting to climate change.
YOUTUBE
ABCD46 JAN 22, 2022 04:30PM
Belfast Garden Club
Founded 1928, many members have seen significant effects of
climate change in their gardens. Many projects all run by
volunteers - beautifying parks; series of public lectures incl. this
year's Evening Series co-sponsored by ABCD. Next week: Maine’s
Climate Future: The Role of Carbon Management in Farms and
Forests with Dr. Ivan Fernandez. Open Garden Days. RSU School
Garden Collaborative program in March. A garden is a managed
piece of landscape that can have many purposes - beauty, food -
belfast 1-22-22 Extension
Powerpoint presentation
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pollinator support. Can't control the weather. Frost dates;
changing soil temps; a changed planting zone - good climate data
is essential to understand effects on plants for good gardening. We
already work with many of the orgs today and look forward to
working with more.
ANONYMOUS JAN 22, 2022 03:29PM
WindowDressers
https://windowdressers.org/
Belfast Garden Club
WindowDressers - Insulating Window
Inserts
WindowDressers 10th Birthday Celebration
and Production Facility Dedication
WindowDressers 10th Birthday Celebration
& Production Facility Dedication Ceremony
Friday, August 27, 2021 On Friday, August 27, 2021 WindowDressers
Staff, Board members and Founder Volunteers gathered in Searsmont,
ME to celebrate WindowDressers' 10th Birthday and to dedicate the
new...
WINDOWDRESSERS
The Belfast Garden Club has donated 22
new books to the community this year,
expanding its library book donation
program to include area schools for the
first time. President Barb Gage explains "It
is the hard work of our 100+ members and the generosity of our
community that allows us to give back in these ways.
BELFASTGARDENCLUB
ABCD46 JAN 22, 2022 04:29PM
Jerry Brand ―
GERALD BRAND
ABCD46 JAN 22, 2022 04:31PM
Belfast Climate Crisis Committee
Many educational programs on heat pumps, etc. Projects: Coastal
Flood Monitoring w/ GMRI; added 2 tide gauges to collect local
data. Recommendations to City Council to assist w/ policy
Waldo County Bounty
Our group started in direct response to pandemic - supply
impacts on individuals and families with increased need for food.
Participated in state and local efforts also. Impacts on farmers supply issues affecting planting plans. Work with Unity Barnraisers
"Veggies for All" 10+ year gleaning program where farmers donate
- contributes food to pantries and other orgs. How to generate
funds for this? Those programs integrated. Give And Take tables,
�share sheds. Although in response to pandemic, this has shone a
light on infrastructure needs, food insecurity, people's needs.
Housing crisis is a force. Looking at ways to make systems more
resilient. Changing land; climate change; other factors in how well
a crop does. Shout-out to MOFGA and Waldo Co Extension for
your work on these issues!
Waldo County Bounty
Our Mission: Waldo County Bounty is a
hunger relief organization working to
improve access to locally-grown foods for
people experiencing food insecurity in
Waldo County, Maine through cross-sector
planning, collaboration, and fundraising.
WALDO COUNTY BOUNTY
Slides for climate symposium Jan. 22
Powerpoint presentation
ABCD46 JAN 22, 2022 07:01PM
Window Dressers
Created 12 yrs ago in Rockland; since 2012 in Belfast: we make
window inserts that go inside windows in homes, trailers,
apartments. Individually measured. All volunteers. Goal to offer
low-income customers up to 10 inserts at no charge every year.
Goals: Keep Mainers warmer, save fuel costs, reduce CO2
emissions, build stronger communities. Accomplished last year:
6,186 new inserts in ME, VT. 64,953 gallons of heating fuel saved 1,458,844 pounds of CO2 saved [assumes everyone used heating
fuel]. Pre-covid average, 60 customers per year; 50% are seniors.
We've learned: need to continually recruit volunteers and
leadership; improve marketing to reach low-income customers
especially. Would appreciate sharing info with other orgs about
other types of heating issues we don't address. Workshop in
November!
WindowDressers - Insulating Window
Inserts
WindowDressers 10th Birthday Celebration
and Production Facility Dedication
WindowDressers 10th Birthday Celebration
& Production Facility Dedication Ceremony
Friday, August 27, 2021 On Friday, August 27, 2021 WindowDressers
Staff, Board members and Founder Volunteers gathered in Searsmont,
ME to celebrate WindowDressers' 10th Birthday and to dedicate the
new...
WINDOWDRESSERS
A (very important) unintended consequence of this program is the
team building across all diverse backgrounds and political
identifications: just people working together to solve a problem. We
need more of this dynamic. ―
GERALD BRAND
PADLET DRIVE
ABCD46 JAN 22, 2022 07:04PM
Unitarian Universalist Church Climate Action
Team
One of our principles: respect for interconnectedness of life.
Became a Green Sanctuary Church (composting; cloth napkins;
low energy, non-polluting cleaners). Last yr, started Community
Action Group including Climate Action Team. 4 zoom programs w/
Ellsworth church re: clean energy; electric vehicles; heat pumps;
and talk by Maine Community Action Team. Solar: discovered our
church would not benefit from rooftop solar. Church joined
Perkins Road solar subscription - anyone can join through the
church's subscription. Now: working on EICDA carbon dividend
tax - looking to educate our congregation; vote on it; and advocate
for using less fossil fuels. Thinking about the impact of storytelling
& learning from others.
Unitarian Universalist Church of
Belfast | UUCB
Unitarian Universalist Church of Belfast is a
vibrant, inter-generational faith community,
inspired by thought and spirit and
grounded in love. Our mission is to honor
differences and to foster peace, justice,
and sustainability in ourselves and in our
world. We are a liberal, welcoming church that believes in the worth and
dignity of each individual.
UUCB
ABCD46 JAN 22, 2022 07:05PM
ANONYMOUS JAN 22, 2022 07:26PM
St. Margaret's Church
Appreciate hearing from the UU's today - so much to learn from
them and each other. Long active supporting GBAM food
cupboard, Game Loft, support for issues of poverty and family
abuse. Although individual members have installed solar and other
�actions, the parish as a whole has not addressed climate change
until now. Want to learn and collaborate w/ other orgs here
Innovation & Carbon Dividend, EICDA, HR 2307. Simple idea: the
price of fossil fuels doesn't reflect the true price to society of
working on climate change. Looking at figuring out how to do this.
Also recognize the importance of gradual persuading people - and
storytelling is a great tool. Small positive changes can encourage
people to talk about it and do more. Developed a reading list of
books about nature and our place in it. Encouraging parishioners
to sign up for carbon tracking tool. Will have a newsletter with
links to area activities and practical suggestions to cut carbon
emissions in our everyday lives. We look forward to working with
you all!
burning them. It would put a price (fee) on carbon and return
these collected fees to citizens via a yearly check. Vast majority of
lower income families would benefit - a specific concern for rural
Maine, lots of miles traveled for work. The scope of the climate
change problem and the rapidity with which we need to act - this
initiative looks at the whole system and has the potential for
reaching net zero by 2050.
Citizens' Climate Lobby Chapters
CCL is organized into local chapters in
congressional districts. Working as a team
you'll experience the profound difference
people can make by empowering and
inspiring their elected representatives,
local media, and community.
St. Margaret's Episcopal Church
(Belfast, Maine)
St. Margaret in Belfast, Maine. Shared
worship is at the heart of St. Margaret's
life. We come together to sing, pray, learn
and be energized to go forth and serve God
in our neighbors. Come join us!
CITIZENS' CLIMATE LOBBY
ST. MARGARET'S (BELFAST, ME)
ABCD46 JAN 22, 2022 07:07PM
Belfast Area Chamber of Commerce
ABCD46 JAN 22, 2022 04:21PM
All of Belfast: Climate Dialogues (ABCD)
ABCD is a community memory project of the Belfast Free Library,
funded by Institute for Museum and Library Services. Created to
help area residents talk about climate change and its impact, to
increase awareness and prepare for its challenges. Want to get
people talking about climate change impacts they have
experienced and share stories, concerns, hopes - to see what our
shared concerns are; inspire one another to take hopeful action;
and celebrate what Belfast is already doing to address the impacts
of climate change. We invite you to share your stories on our
website; sign up for our monthly newsletter; attend an educational
Zoom program; and learn more about climate change on the
Library's ABCD web pages.
Unable to attend today, but Dorothy Havey shared: Really
encouraging people to use less paper - the Chamber publishes the
summer guide online now.
Homepage - Belfast Area Chamber of
Commerce
Belfast & Waldo County offer a unique
maritime history, endless outdoor
offerings, an active art scene, and robust
farm to table movement, with historic
downtowns and thriving waterfronts. The
Chamber's mission is to promote an
environment in which businesses can
prosper and people love to live, work, and
play.
BELFAST AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
All of Belfast: Climate Dialogues
All of Belfast: Climate Dialogues (ABCD) is
a community memory project of the
Belfast Free Library. In this online platform
we are collecting and sharing Belfast area
residents' observations and perspectives
about climate change impacts in our region at this critical time, as a
benchmark for future reference ~ and perhaps as a catalyst for taking
action now.
ABCD46 JAN 22, 2022 07:09PM
Our Town Belfast
Not able to attend today.
We missed you and we look forward to looping you in to further
conversations!
OMEKA
Our Town Belfast - Welcome!
https://belfastlibrary.org/all-of-belfast-climate-dialogues/
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ABCD46
ABCD46 JAN 22, 2022 07:06PM
We believe in supporting local businesses,
honoring our heritage through historic
preservation, and in bringing together the
community in order to make downtown ...
OUR TOWN BELFAST
Citizens Climate Lobby
Belfast area group of national CCL organization - a citizens lobby
to act specifically for one piece of legislation: The Energy
ABCD46 JAN 22, 2022 07:10PM
�Coastal Mountains Land Trust
Not able to attend today.
We missed you and look forward to future conversations!
Coastal Mountains Land Trust
Coastal Mountains Land Trust permanently
conserves land in Maine's western
Penobscot Bay region.
COASTAL-MOUNTAINS
delighted to see that people in the community share those same
efforts and ideals as me.
New ideas, thoughts & questions
sparked!
ANONYMOUS JAN 22, 2022 03:03PM
Urban Forestry
ABCD46 JAN 22, 2022 07:11PM
Waldo County Soil and Water Conservation
District
Unable to attend today.
We missed you and can't wait to loop you in during our next
conversation!
Fred Bowers. Climate Crisis Committee. I've been thinking that if
would be beneficial to devise an array of plants, from pollinators to
shrubs, to large trees. These arrays could function as shade,
carbon sequestration and also habitat. We could use some
assistance to determine these arrays that are appropriate to the
climate of now and the future. We could advise people to plant
these arrays.
Waldo County Soil And Water
Conservation District – Conservation
and sustainable use of natural
resources.
ANONYMOUS JAN 22, 2022 03:18PM
<p>Online via Zoom. Contact us for more
information.</p>\n
Dr. Corlew has focused her research on the psychology of climate
change and is using the book Disasterology: Dispatches from the
frontlines of the climate crisis. This course began 1/18 but is still
open. Those 65 years of age and older can have tuition and fees
waived. 596-6906 FMI
WALDOCOUNTYSOILANDWATER.ORG
What did you hear that surprised
or inspired you?
CHIP CURRY JAN 22, 2022 04:04PM
I'm inspired by how many diverse
organizations understand their mission to
include combatting climate change.
CHIP CURRY JAN 22, 2022 04:36PM
Building Social Norms in Waldo County
I wonder how this group can influence a broader local citizen
discussion to prioritize climate change. Could there be a broad
challenge to organizations to publicly commit to combatting
climate change within and among their other mission priorities?
CHASE JAN 22, 2022 07:06PM
Community involvement
I was so beyond delighted to hear so many people were passionate
about the community and the people in it. As a student at BAHS
and member of the community surrounding it this is something
that i have always considered while creating my ideas. I’m very
The Psychology of Disaster and Climate
Change - Psy 333 - Dr. Corlew, UMA
ANONYMOUS JAN 22, 2022 04:03PM
Carbon storage and Japanese Knotweed
We all detest Knotweed. However, how do we get rid of it while
still providing soil cover and carbon strorage?
This is Fred Bowers from Climate Crisis Committee
ABCD46 JAN 22, 2022 04:26PM
A regional coordinator via Community
Resilience Partnership?
Dr. Cassaundra Rose, in her description of the support available
from the Maine's Community Resilience Partnership, mentioned
contracted "regional coordinators". Could this be a good option to
explore for helping coordinate all these organizations? - Misty
Hi Misty! This is Abby Roche from the Island Institute. This is a great
question. The "regional coordinator" for your region will be tasked
with doing just what you're describing --providing avenues for
organizations within the region (Waldo is in region 2) to connect and
share resources. At the same time they will also be bridging ideas
across "region 2" it also includes Hancock, and Washington Counties.
For more information on this you can see this site
https://www.maine.gov/future/climate/community-resiliencepartnership ―
ANONYMOUS
Thanks so much Abby! ―
ABCD46
�ANONYMOUS JAN 22, 2022 04:31PM
ABCD46 JAN 22, 2022 05:01PM
Cloudy weather and Solar
Questions on carbon tax
Fred Bowers.
I have solar, but I've noticed that there is more cloudy weather and
I don't generate as much electric as I did even 5 years ago. Are we
examining that at a State level?
From Greg B to Peter Millard (as part of our follow up discussion):
Why not have the revenue from the carbon tax go to public as a
rebate for investment in climate mitigation as individual or
communities? rather as a general refund.
Fred, thanks for also mentioning geothermal in the discussion.
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ABCD46
ABCD46 JAN 22, 2022 04:56PM
Peter: Our concern is that we may have protests similar to the
“yellow vest” movement in France which resulted from increased
fuel prices with no immediate mitigation. If people benefit, they
are likely to support it.
Connecting with Waldo County Assistance
Program?
Karen Young: Waldo County CAP is a program that, on their
website says they help low income people with a variety of things
including transportation, home heating and insulation. Does
anyone have more information about Waldo County CAP?
Window Dressers does receive client referrals through Waldo CAP.
Have a follow-up conversation - Chip Curry, Beverly Roxby.
Waldo County Bounty partners with Waldo CAP on food
security/hunger relief. Lissa Widoff, WCB ―
ANONYMOUS
ABCD46 JAN 22, 2022 05:04PM
Reducing food miles and becoming more
self-reliant w/ food production
During discussion, per Heather Spaulding: To build on Jerry’s point
about the importance of local foods, the Maine Climate Council
has articulated the desire to reduce food miles and become more
self-reliant with our food production, increasing the amount of
food that is both grown and consumed in Maine from 10% to 30%
by 2030.
ABCD46 JAN 22, 2022 05:11PM
Master gardeners program
Chase from BAHS asked about this. UMaine Extension offers a
program - see link.
Heather also shared that MOFGA does offer lots of great
workshops and programs as well:
https://www.mofga.org/learn/organic-how-tos/
Maine Master Gardener Volunteers Cooperative Extension: Garden & Yard
- University of Maine Cooperative
Extension
University of Maine Cooperative Extension
Master Gardener Volunteers program
provides participants with at least 40 hours of in-depth training in the art
and science of horticulture. Trainees receive current, research-based
information from UMaine Extension educators and industry experts. In
return, trained Master Gardeners volunteer their time and expertise in
many ways for community programs and ...
COOPERATIVE EXTENSION: GARDEN & YARD
ABCD46 JAN 22, 2022 04:52PM
Small scale wind turbines?
Per Susan Conard: does anyone know why small scale wind
turbines are not available in Maine?
This also relates to the new Ending hunger report from the state:
Everyone at the Table: Maine's plan to end hunger by 2030
https://legislature.maine.gov/bills/getTestimonyDoc.asp?
id=10001228 ―
ANONYMOUS
ABCD46 JAN 22, 2022 05:08PM
PFAS chemicals
Chip Curry: Hoping to see Sportsmen's Alliance of Maine be
involved - deermeat with PFAS chemicals. A priority to build broad
coalitions.
Agree!, Lissa here ―
ANONYMOUS
PFAS are polluting local farms, too! ―
ANONYMOUS
ABCD46 JAN 22, 2022 05:09PM
How does each org promote itself?
Question from Jan Dodge. Are there other publications in addition
to the Journal? Social media, yes... but remember our population is
older and I encounter ppl who want a paper copy of my
newsletter. Also challenges with skill level and internet
connection.
Jon: Maybe we can get a grant through the GOPIF resilience
program? Takes time and money.
ABCD46 JAN 22, 2022 05:14PM
�Maine Community Foundation grant - needs a
lead organization! - Feb. 15
Next steps?
Chip, Jan: Are there grant writers who could help?
Municipalities can apply for grants - City Council would have to
approve.
Jan: Wendy Casten with Aging Well in Waldo County
ANONYMOUS JAN 22, 2022 03:31PM
ABCD46 JAN 22, 2022 05:16PM
Rules for utilization of state money when
doing projects that must include a climate
element?
Jan's question. Unsure - will need to check!
Barbara: knows that DEP requires some component in every grant
for climate change. Unsure about others.
Jan: Important to have that as part of policy
ABCD46 JAN 26, 2022 03:02PM
Building capacity -young leaders unite!
The Island Institute is hosting the 2022 Young Leaders Series
featuring four virtual, interactive sessions exploring key aspects
of leadership. Sessions are open to all high school and college
students, as well as recent graduates. The 4-week series will offer
participants the opportunity to actively take part in each
discussion and also leave the sessions with a peer-reviewed action
plan for creating change in their own communities. To register
visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/young-leaders-series-2022tickets-228939352767
Young Leaders Series 2022
Eventbrite - Island Institute presents Young
Leaders Series 2022 - Monday, February 7,
2022 - Find event and ticket information.
EVENTBRITE
Climate to Thrive
This organization from Mount Desert Island could be a model for a
Waldo County Climate Solutions organization.
- Brenda Harrington
A Climate to Thrive
ANONYMOUS JAN 22, 2022 03:49PM
Maine Soil Health Technical Assistance
Program
ACTT interns wrapped up their vegan food
guide for the island. This is a resource for
all who choose to be vegan/vegetarian on
a daily basis, or those who wish to try
something new. The motivation for this
project was driven by the destructive impacts animal agriculture has on
the environment.
This is a collaborative effort of MOFGA, Maine’s Department of
Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, and Cooperative
Extension. It will provide grants to farmers wanting technical
assistance for implementing soil health practices. The program
kicks off in April with technical assistance. Grants will be made in
the fall to help farmers implement the practices in the 2023
growing season. Stay tuned for an announcement with more detail
A CLIMATE TO THRIVE
soon.
Common themes toward a
common vision
ANONYMOUS JAN 22, 2022 07:25PM
Cross collaboration through contact
information, please.
Group name - contact person-email-website
ABCD46 JAN 22, 2022 04:45PM
Bringing people together around common
values
PerJerry Brand: Window Dressers; bringing people together who
would not normally work together
ANONYMOUS JAN 22, 2022 04:45PM
Maine Environmental Priorities Coalition
Common Agenda 2022
https://protectmaine.org/epc/priorities/2022
Excited to imagine the impacts of these allies!! & : )
ABCD46 JAN 22, 2022 04:43PM
Create a clearinghouse / portal for all our
orgs; hold regular meetings; create baseline
data
Per Greg Biddinger: Come up with a strategy together to map
what everyone is doing. Creates partnerships, overlaps,
collaboration, cooperation. Create a portal? / coordinated
platform for info. Regular meetings? Have a set of baseline data.
Understand economic value of elements of our natural landscape.
This could all lead to citizens and businesses making better
�decisions.
Sarah: Who do you think would create, maintain, lead this
clearinghouse?
Rick: Creating a new org takes time and can be bureaucratic - so,
start with what we have. Suggest the Library and ABCD may be
best place to take leadership?
Brenda: All the web pages we've created do provide a
clearinghouse to important reports & info although we don't list all
the orgs yet.
Jan Dodge: Share skills - grant writing is often challenging!!!!
Chase is working to create Project Pollinator and hopes to work
with MOFGA, Garden Club, others. Help people gain access to
food, the outdoors, watching pollinators and birds. Create a
central spot at the high school.
thank you everyone! below is a copy of the sheet that’s going to be
used for ordering plants and which plants we are planning on
getting:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12vEmH4j48mXofcHvUU7Y
OkgjvS8YLBjqBL6PCWH5bWU/edit ―
CHASE
in depth info about what i’m trying to achieve with help from the
CCC at BAHS and others from the community
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11D9sZdGP_Cz2WKv4DqZirDloqqTXZ_p5kbqme_TBmA/edit ―
CHASE
Peter Millard: Similar to the Maine Environmental Priorities
Coalition of 37 organizations
Corliss: If we had this Waldo County org, imagine the legislative
impact it could have to tell Jan Dodge, "all 17 orgs agree."
additional info
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12ElxkfJqVeoRqHd8JNPPZ8kb1
doY6UBsdUUPNwaRGH8/edit ―
CHASE
ANONYMOUS JAN 22, 2022 04:41PM
Thank you Chase! It looks like you will need to edit the access
permissions on your Google docs so "Anyone with the link can view".
Island Institute -Climate Support +
Collaboration Opportunities
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ABCD46
thanks for letting me know! anyone who tried accessing the
documents but was unsuccessful can now do so! ―
CHASE
Slides from the Island Institute. Please reach out to Abby Roche
aroche@islandinstitute.org or check out our work at
https://www.islandinstitute.org/
Awesome. I love your vision and your plant list, Chase! You should
definitely reach out to the Belfast Garden Club for collaboration, and
I bet you could solicit plant donations from many local farmers and
gardeners. Please feel free to reach out to me at Seaberry Hill Farm if
you'd like some elderberry plant donations! Look forward to seeing
your pollinator project come alive! ~Misty Mallar ―
ABCD46
thank you Misty! I think there’s definitely a spot in our medicinals
for some elderberry! i’m excited to see what our future for this
project looks like. ―
CHASE
ABCD46 JAN 22, 2022 04:54PM
Bulletin board? Newsletter? clearinghouse
where everyone can share their programs and
activities
Per Jon Beal
WaldoCoClimateSymposium
Powerpoint presentation
PADLET DRIVE
ABCD46 JAN 22, 2022 04:54PM
EMAIL JON BEAL to stay involved! Send your
ideas, visions. Thank you!
ABCD46 JAN 22, 2022 04:50PM
Project Pollinator, BAHS
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<h2>Waldo County Climate Change Symposium: Preparing for Tomorrow - Our Climate Future</h2>
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The Climate Change Symposium was designed by the Belfast Climate Crisis Committee and the All of Belfast Climate Dialogues team as the first step in an ongoing conversation to foster collaboration and ACTION. In this report, we suggest next steps for that collaboration and summarize the content of the presentations made by participating groups.<br /><br /><h2><b>Overview<br /></b></h2>
<br /><span style="font-weight:400;">The Symposium was held as a ZOOM Meeting on January 22, 2022 in partnership with the Belfast Free Library’s </span><a href="https://belfastlibrary.org/all-of-belfast-climate-dialogues/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><b>All of Belfast Climate Dialogues</b></a> <span style="font-weight:400;">(ABCD), a community engagement project, and the </span><a href="https://www.cityofbelfast.org/373/Climate-Change-Committee" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><b>Belfast Climate Crisis Committee.</b></a><span style="font-weight:400;"> (CCC)</span>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">The All of Belfast Climate Dialogues team included Brenda Harrington, Sarah Kirn, and Misty Mallar. </span><span style="font-weight:400;">Jon Beal, Belfast Climate Crisis Committee Chairperson, presented the purpose and ground rules for the Symposium. Jerry Brand, a CCC member, helped organize the Symposium and document the report.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Dr. Cassaundra Rose of the Maine Climate Council opened our event with a succinct presentation on the science of climate change in our area, and the planned response set forth in the </span><a href="https://climatecouncil.maine.gov/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><b>“Maine Won’t Wait”</b></a><span style="font-weight:400;"> climate action plan. Dr. Rose shared the <a href="https://padlet.com/abcd46/waldo-county-climate-change-symposium-preparing-for-tomorrow-dnxf0nl94lw11ub5/wish/2006599448" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">slides from her presentation</a>. Links to other resources referenced by Dr. Rose can be found in </span><a href="https://padlet.com/abcd46/dnxf0nl94lw11ub5" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><b>the symposium notes in our Padlet</b></a><span style="font-weight:400;"> page, a virtual ‘whiteboard/bulletin board’ application we used to document the presentations. The padlet notes are also attached as a PDF file.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Fifteen Waldo County organizations with climate change-related activities attended the symposium. Each gave a 5-minute presentation about who they are, their present activities related to climate change, and their future plans. A summary of each presentation is included at the end of this report. Additional notes, including links to websites and slides, may be </span><a href="https://padlet.com/abcd46/dnxf0nl94lw11ub5" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><b>found in our meeting Padlet</b></a><span style="font-weight:400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Several City officials and legislators were invited to listen. Senator Chip Curry (Waldo County) and Representative Jan Dodge (Belfast, Northport, Waldo District 97) both attended the entire program and took part in discussions at the end.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Attendees expressed enthusiasm for having the opportunity to learn about the various climate-related activities already underway in Waldo County. There was general agreement on the value of staying connected in the future, and a call for the Belfast Free Library to serve as a “clearinghouse” to share information. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">After the symposium,we discussed immediate next steps, including the following: </span></p>
<ol><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Complete this report, distribute it to attendees and invitees to the Symposium.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Solicit input from attending organizations and others to assist the Climate Crisis Committee’s development of a Climate Action Plan for Belfast. </span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Create a spreadsheet of organizations, their contact information, and brief summary of their activities to serve as a “clearinghouse” of information to support future collaboration and coordination.</span></li>
</ol><h2><b>Requested Actions</b></h2>
<ol><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We encourage all of the invited organizations, including those who could not attend, to share this report with their membership.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;">We ask you to give us input for developing a Belfast Climate Action Plan. CCC and ABCD want your input as we develop a plan for the City of Belfast and the Belfast community to adapt to climate change, and to reduce our production of the greenhouse gasses which are causing global warming. ABCD has created a web page where you can input your priorities and suggestions for the plan. Once drafted, the plan will be submitted to the Belfast City Council for discussion, public review, and adoption. Your input of ideas will be valuable to the drafters, and will be an important indication of public support. <strong><a href="https://belfastlibrary.org/belfast-climate-action-plan-input/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Click here to access the web page survey</a></strong><span>. Feel free to submit as many ideas you think are useful.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;">We have created a clearing house for the community to locate and share information. The ABCD project has created a <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K0lMufOAN43Qzy1hVaVNnT96DrH9-acoqVV9SSv9iIA/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span><strong>shareable google spreadsheet</strong> </span></a><span> that can be edited and updated by the invited organizations and viewed by the community. Participants should have already received an email invitation to review your organization’s information and edit the contact information. Let us know if you did not get this.</span></li>
</ol><br /><h2><b>Presentation Summaries</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">The following organizations were represented in 3 groups, each giving a 5 minute presentation. Longer summaries of each presentation are </span><a href="https://padlet.com/abcd46/dnxf0nl94lw11ub5" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><b>available for viewing on the Padlet.</b></a></p>
<p><b>Group 1: </b></p>
<p><b><i>Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition - Greg Biddinger</i></b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">The BBWC is very active in natural resource conservation and education, both with area schools and adults. Climate Change mitigation and adaptation is embedded in all of their initiatives and programs, such as collaboration on watershed assessments.</span></p>
<p><b><i>Friends of Belfast Parks - Bonnie Black</i></b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">The Friends have been active since 1996, supporting the Belfast Parks and Recreation Department with volunteers and fundraising. They promote greenway expansion and planting resilient native species as a means of combating the effects of climate change.</span></p>
<p><b><i>BAHS (Belfast Area High School) Dave Thomas & Jonah Lovejoy</i></b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Dave Thomas, as a teacher and advisor, and Jonah Lovejoy, as a student representative, discussed the formal courses and student activity groups that focus on aspects of climate change. The very significant results have been development of sensors for tide levels; the resulting information is being analyzed and put into a database that provides a hyperlocal focus. Other projects include composting and stormwater runoff mitigation. Very inspiring: these students are the future!</span></p>
<p><b><i>Island Institute - Abby Roche</i></b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">The focus of the Island Institute is to sustain and enrich life for those living on the islands off the Maine Coast through education, advocacy, and leadership. They have 4 climate change initiatives: decarbonization, transition to clean energy, resilience to sea level rise, and improved island economies. They offer Community Energy Spark! and Shore Up grants.</span></p>
<p><b><i>MOFGA (Maine Organic Farmers & Gardeners Assoc.) - Heather Spaulding</i></b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">MOFGA, in its long history, has been focused on creating food systems that are healthy, fair for all, and based on organic practices. (Editorial Comment: increased food insecurity is a very likely consequence of climate change.) A focus on organic practices that build soil fertility is a major initiative. They are policy advocates for the support of Maine agriculture and farmers in combating climate change.</span></p>
<p><b><i>UMaine/Waldo County Cooperative Extension Service : Rick Kersbergen</i></b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">The Cooperative Extension Service conducts research, has initiatives, and educational programs that help farmers in Maine adapt to climate change and build resiliency. A particular focus is in building soils with increased fertility and capability for absorbing periodic intense rainfall and withstanding drought conditions, and crops that build sustainable farming systems.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><b>Group 2:</b></p>
<p><b><i>Belfast Climate Crisis Committee - Jon Beal</i></b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">The Belfast CCC is an advisory committee to the Belfast City Council. Its entire focus is on remediation and adaptation of the effects of climate change in the City of Belfast, and in Waldo County. It proposes policy for consideration by the Council, conducts numerous studies, public forums, and educational programs, and has engaged in cooperative programs for information databases, such as a weather station and tidal gauges. </span></p>
<p><b><i>Belfast Garden Club- Susan Conard</i></b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">The Garden Club has been active since 1928, and its volunteers are responsible for the planting and upkeep of many of the gardens that make Belfast a beautiful city. In recent years, an emphasis has been on educational seminars and activities that emphasize adaptation, mitigation and resilience to the new challenges represented by climate change; such as the Evening Lecture series, and the RSU School Garden Collaborative.</span></p>
<p><b><i>Waldo County Bounty- Lissa Widdoff</i></b></p>
<p>Waldo County Bounty started in 2020 as a response to the pandemic-related increase in food insecurity. It is a program to support community farmers in supplying locally raised fruits and vegetables to all Waldo County food pantries and soup kitchens, and distribution to individuals by food boxes. WCB collaborates with other programs, and seeks to improve infrastructure and resilient farming systems.</p>
<p><b><i>Window Dressers- Corliss Davis</i></b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Window Dressers was formed 12 years ago in Rockland as a volunteer organization to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase efficiency by building internal storm windows. The program spread to volunteer community builds in Belfast and Searsport; and ultimately throughout Maine and into New Hampshire and Vermont. In the Builds, volunteers assemble window kits to fill orders from individuals, whose window dimensions were precisely measured by teams. When in place the inserts substantially reduce the leakage of cold air and insulate with double glazing. A substantial percentage of inserts are provided at very low cost to low-income customers. Last year, nearly 6,200 inserts were built in ME and Vermont, with an estimated savings of nearly 1,500,000 pounds of CO2 saved.</span></p>
<p><b><i>Universalist Unitarian Church Climate Action Team- Marje Stickler</i></b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">The UU Church has become a Green Sanctuary church, and formed a Community Action Group focusing on climate change mitigation and education. They have conducted 4 educational ZOOM sessions in collaboration with an Ellsworth church on climate issues. They have joined the Perkins Road Solar Subscription, and are working on an EICDA carbon dividend tax.</span></p>
<br /><p><b>Group 3:</b></p>
<p><b><i>St. Margaret’s Church- Mary Rackmales</i></b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">St Margarets has long been active in reducing food insecurity and families through the Greater Belfast Area Ministries’ food pantry and the Game Loft. Committee members are working to educate and encourage parishioners on climate change and mitigation measures. They are eager to learn from and collaborate with other organizations. <br /><br /></span></p>
<p><b><i>Citizens Climate Lobby- Peter Millard</i></b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">The Belfast chapter of the national CCL is focused on advocacy for the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend (EICDA), HR 2307. This legislation puts a price on carbon based fuel use, collects fees, and would return them to citizens.<br /><br /></span></p>
<p><b><i>ABCD (All Belfast Climate Dialogues) - Brenda Harrington</i></b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">The ABCD is a community engagement project of the Belfast Free Library, funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. It sponsors and facilitates discussions around Climate Change and its impacts on local people. The intent is to facilitate communication across the community on the impacts on lives and how adaptation is possible.</span></p>
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Belfast's Forests and Climate Change
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Deep Woods: How Climate Change Impacts Forests & How Forests Slow Climate Change
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This was the third and final program in the Belfast Garden Club’s 2022 Evening Lecture Series co-sponsored by the All of Belfast Climate Dialogues, a project of the Belfast Free Library that has focused on the effects of the climate crisis on our farms, gardens and forests. <br /><br />Dr. Nicholas Fisichelli, President of Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park, and Mark Berry, Forest Program Director for The Nature Conservancy in Maine, gave a presentation about the interactions between Maine forests and climate change. The discussion covered the current and potential impacts of changing climate on our forests, including shifts in species’ distributions and the disturbances that impact forests, factors that help keep forests resilient, potential management responses, and the role of forests in capturing carbon from the atmosphere and storing it in forests, soils, and forest products. <br /><br /><strong><a href="https://youtu.be/mrdmuFVm85g" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Watch the recording here on YouTube</a></strong><br /><br /><em>Dr. Nicholas Fisichelli is the President and CEO with Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park. Nick’s work and that of Schoodic is to understand the consequences of environmental change and engage people in the science and solutions. </em><br /><br /><em>Mark Berry, the Forest Program Director for The Nature Conservancy in Maine, leads TNC’s work to conserve Maine’s forests.</em>
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ABCD Team
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March 22, 2022
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Dr. Nicholas Fisichelli, Schoodic Institute of Acadia National Park
Mark Berry, The Nature Conservancy in Maine
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Art & Climate Change
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<h2>The ABCD project and Belfast Free Library invite you to submit photos of your favorite Belfast-area places… and your favorite ways to enjoy them!</h2>
Share your photos of the things you love most about Belfast and our corner of Maine… What activities and places bring you joy and gratitude? Look around you, and be inspired. <br /><br />Submissions can be photos from past and present-day. We’ll judge in 2 categories: <br /><br /><strong>PLACES</strong> - Gathering places, scenic views, hidden gems, favorite spots to visit and enjoy your surroundings. Think about natural places and man-made spots alike! <br /><br /><strong>PLAY</strong> - Walking, beach-going, reading, dancing, gardening, dining, curling, creating or seeing art, boating, music, festivals, hiking, biking, live theater, shopping, movie-going, farmers markets, community events, family & friend traditions, and so many more possibilities! <br /><br />Prizes will be given to 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners: $50 and $25 gift certificates to the winner’s choice of several selected Belfast businesses who help enhance our love of living and playing in this place! <br /><br /><p><strong><a href="https://belfastlibrary.org/abcd-photo-contest/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Learn more about the contest prizes and rules, and submit your photo by email.</a><br /><br /></strong><em>Photo credit: “This sunset photo of the tugboats was taken from the Nautilus patio after a big band of thunderstorms narrowly missed us. I feel so fortunate to work in this amazing spot right on the water ~ it is beautiful in all seasons!” Photo by Misty Mallar, July 2019</em><strong><br /></strong></p>
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<p>Celebrating Belfast ~ Places & Play! All Of Belfast: Climate Dialogues 2022 Photo Contest CALL FOR PHOTOS</p>
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Art & Climate Change
Still Image
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<h2>ABCD's summer 2022 photo contest, "Celebrating Belfast: Places & Play!" garnered 35 great submissions! <strong>SEE BELOW for the list of all photos and photographers.</strong></h2>
It was truly wonderful to see how many things there are to celebrate about Belfast. Amy Tingle of Waterfall Arts, our contest judge, "loved seeing Belfast through the lens of others." <br /><br />We wanted to share all the excellent photos here and say thank you to everyone who entered the contest. We love that you have so many ways to enjoy Belfast!<br /><h2><strong>Congratulations to our winners! </strong></h2>
1st Place, "Play" Category: <br /><a href="https://abcdbelfast.omeka.net/items/show/122">Walking on the Beach</a> by Grace Murdock <br /><br />1st place, "Places" Category: <a href="https://abcdbelfast.omeka.net/items/show/123">Misty Morning</a> by Daniel Hanscome <br /><br />2nd place (overall): <a href="https://abcdbelfast.omeka.net/items/show/121">Top of the Morning</a> by Kimberly Snyder Sterrs <br /><br />3rd Place (overall): <a href="https://abcdbelfast.omeka.net/items/show/120">Bike Rack, Belfast Soup Kitchen</a> by Turil Cronburg<br /><br /><h2><strong>Photos in order from left to right: </strong></h2>
<p><b>Deirdre Good</b></p>
<ol><li><span style="font-weight:400;"> Sunrise Kelly Cove</span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">December 25, 2021, Kelly’s Cove, Northport</span></li>
</ol><p><span style="font-weight:400;">Watching a sunrise is a year-round magical opportunity to see beauty unfold amidst peace and natural sounds. </span></p>
<br /><p><b>Cris Hughes</b></p>
<ol start="2"><li><span style="font-weight:400;"> Ribbons of Many Colors (Co-op)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight:400;"> Town Dock</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight:400;"> </span><span style="font-weight:400;">Little library at East Side School</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight:400;"> Harbor walk</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight:400;"> Last Summer- JOY</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight:400;"> Little library on Union Street</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight:400;"> Myth Weaver Playhouse Theater window</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight:400;"> Last week on the bay</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight:400;"> Local produce</span></li>
</ol><br /><p><b>Nina Lowe</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">The place is the Allyn Street Rangeway, on the shore of the bay, looking toward Blue Hill and Acadia. It was taken on 11/30/18 at 6:25 AM.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I enjoy winter, for many reasons, including the magnificent sunrises I see when I hike down to the bay early in the morning to catch the sunrise.</span></p>
<ol start="11"><li><span style="font-weight:400;">Sunrise from the Allyn St Rangeway, 2018</span></li>
</ol><br /><p><b>Fred Bowers</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">There was a fairly intense storm on 7/31/2017. When the storm ended, many neighbors on Bayview Street poked their heads out for a good view and observed these rainbows, and shared in the wonder of it all. I think there are pots of gold on both sides of the Bay!</span></p>
<ol start="12"><li><span style="font-weight:400;"> Rainbow over Bayview St, 2017</span></li>
</ol><br /><p><b>Peter Daly</b></p>
<ol start="13"><li><span style="font-weight:400;"> Lobster Bake on the Harbor, Beth. August 2017</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight:400;"> Arts in the Park, June 2021</span></li>
</ol><br /><p><b>Rebecca Bunker</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Photo taken October 19th 2019.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">On the rail trail...</span></p>
<ol start="15"><li><span style="font-weight:400;"> "Between two bridges", Oct. 2019</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight:400;"> “Play Category” Picking Maine Blueberries in the backyard 2021</span></li>
</ol><p> </p>
<p><b>Lawrence Reichard</b></p>
<ol start="17"><li><span style="font-weight:400;"> Snowman</span></li>
</ol><p><span style="font-weight:400;">The photo was taken February 20, 2021 on the Hills to Sea Trail near the CMP substation near City Point. I call the photo "Snowman" and it is a picture of a natural snow formation I found on the ground, on the forest floor. It is untouched by human hand.</span></p>
<br /><p><b>Lu Pierro</b></p>
<ol start="18"><li><span style="font-weight:400;"> The Tugs</span></li>
</ol><p><span style="font-weight:400;">We are always fascinated by the shipyard and the under workings of the various seaworthy vessels. A world unknown to most of us until it is hoisted from the waters. </span></p>
<br /><p><b>Grace Murdock</b></p>
<ol start="19"><li><span style="font-weight:400;"> Walking on the Beach</span></li>
</ol><br /><p><b>Bonnie Black</b></p>
<ol start="20"><li><span style="font-weight:400;"> Near the Boathouse, 2019</span></li>
</ol><p><span style="font-weight:400;">I’ve spent many hours (days, weeks?) walking this shore, near the boathouse. </span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">It always seems to have a new story to tell, at any given moment. Like a town, a city, and definitely Belfast.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">I chose this particular photo due to it’s sense of mystery, uncertainty, and ever-changing light. Maybe a storm just passed. Or is coming.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /><br /></span><b>Daniel Hanscome</b></p>
<ol start="21"><li><span style="font-weight:400;"> Misty Morning</span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></li>
</ol><span>This was taken early one sunrise, 20 below zero, with an iPhone 5 and Snapseed post production. That is sea smoke in the air that you see around the sunrise.</span><br /><br /><p><b>Jessica Chambers</b><b><br /></b><span style="font-weight:400;">July 9th 2022♡ I enjoy walking by the water and Fishing with my Family! The water was so beautiful that night</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">22. Fishing from the bridge</span></p>
<br /><p><b>Emily Kohl</b></p>
<ol start="23"><li><span style="font-weight:400;"> Taco Night</span></li>
</ol><p><span style="font-weight:400;">This photo is Taco Night at High Ridge Farm in South Montville. To me it represents the beauty, awe and wonder of a Maine barn, which is an iconic sacred space capturing the evening light. But also it’s a fun intergenerational evening of play and community relaxation featuring local food. June 2021.</span></p>
<br /><p><b>Kimberly Snyder Sterrs</b></p>
<ol start="24"><li><span style="font-weight:400;"> Joy in Belfast</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight:400;"> Top of the Morning</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight:400;"> Garden Tours</span></li>
</ol><br /><p><b>Turil Cronberg</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">27.Bike Rack, Belfast Soup Kitchen</span></p>
<br /><p><b>Jeffrey Maybee</b></p>
<ol start="28"><li><span style="font-weight:400;"> The Cheese Roll at the Celtic Festival in Belfast 7/20/14 </span></li>
</ol><br /><p><b>Mark Tuckerman</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">One of my favorite sea smoke shots from the docks, Belfast Maine</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">January 2022..temp was about minus 10</span></p>
<ol start="29"><li><span style="font-weight:400;"> Sea Smoke</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight:400;"> Ghost Ships</span></li>
</ol><p> </p>
<p><b>Betsy Headley</b></p>
<ol start="31"><li><span style="font-weight:400;"> </span><span style="font-weight:400;">Belfast Footbridge in the Fog</span></li>
</ol><p> </p>
<p><b>Sarah Trunzo</b></p>
<ol start="32"><li><span style="font-weight:400;"> A short Commute, Summer 2021</span></li>
</ol><p><span style="font-weight:400;">Caption: During the summer of 2021, we lived aboard a borrowed sailboat on a mooring in Belfast Harbor. It wasn’t for fun, really, rather a telltale sign of both a harsh housing market and a Covid-era border restriction that prevented Jonathan from retrieving his boat from Canada. But we </span><i><span style="font-weight:400;">did</span></i><span style="font-weight:400;"> have fun. A short commute is made play on the water. Even if we were rushing in for a cancer appointment or an early morning radio show, even if we were rowing out in the dark or in an argument— the water was strong, subtle a tonic.</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><b>Sally Brophy</b></p>
<ol start="33"><li><span style="font-weight:400;"> </span><span style="font-weight:400;">December 2019 Labyrinth Sunrise</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight:400;"> December 2018 Seasmoke Sentinels </span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight:400;"> August 2019 Reflections on the Little River</span></li>
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---------------<br /><br />See more about the photo contest here: <a href="https://belfastlibrary.org/abcd-photo-contest/">https://belfastlibrary.org/abcd-photo-contest/</a>
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Help Staying Warm This Winter: How to Create an Energy Efficient Home
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Some people would like to be as energy efficient as possible. Others simply wish their home was a little warmer or less drafty in the winter. Most would like to save money by cutting their electricity, heating, and fuel bills, but many don’t know where to start or are prevented by the expense of weatherization and other efficiency upgrades. <br /><br />In this talk by Bridget Gifford of <a href="https://www.efficiencymaine.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Efficiency Maine</a>, a public benefits fund for energy efficiency programs, we learned about the rebates designed to save homeowners money on weatherization, efficiency heating, and the purchase of electric vehicles. <br /><br />The talk covered the rebates and financing programs offered, with a focus on how heat pumps and heat pump water heaters can set the stage for a more fuel efficient household. Attendees wanting to upgrade to a more fuel-efficient household were educated abou the benefits available through the Efficiency Maine program. <br /><br />Speaker Bridget Gifford has worked with Efficiency Maine for six years focusing on low income initiatives. Over that time investments in low income homes for efficiency measures has tripled. She has worked in NY and Maine with efficiency programs and utility providers. Bridget lives in Yarmouth with her family.
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Efficiency Maine
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Local Voices on Climate
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Survey: What are your top concerns about climate change locally?
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This Google survey from October 2021 was included in an <a href="https://mailchi.mp/9c6412954797/all-of-belfast-climate-dialogues-october-2021-news?e=57a7389824" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">ABCD newsletter</a>, our website, and the Library’s Facebook page. 15 respondents chimed in, with a few responding later, up through July 2022. <br /><br />Based on the open-ended comments, some respondents felt it was challenging to pick just one local climate change impact that was most concerning. The comments below (Question #2) reflect concern for the many–faceted effects of climate change here. <br /><br /><strong>1. Which local climate change impact is of greatest concern to you? (choose one, and tell us more in the next question)</strong><br /><br />__ Extreme heat <br />__ Tick-borne illness <br />__ Sea level rise <br />__ Brown tail moth <br />__ Farming / gardening / food production <br />__ Impacts for fishing Effects on forestry <br />__ Energy efficiency / heating and cooling <br />__ Other… <br /><br /><strong>2. Tell us more about your concerns, experiences or personal story about the effects of climate change.</strong> <br /><br /><hr />Food production in all sectors is already experiencing issues due to climate change, and I am concerned for people’s health and our animals as well <br /><br /><hr />I am concerned that the cost of changing our energy use habits to will be too great for most to change. I would like to see more financial help made available to motivate more homeowners to make the switch. <br /><br /><hr />Over the past forty years of gardening here in Maine, I have noticed climate changes which are largely harmful to food production: excess heat, drought, increased insect damage. <br /><br />Extreme heat impacts all of the other local impact choices <br /><br /><hr />The changes wrought by extreme heat have catastrophic impact on every aspect of life today. <br /><br /><hr />I am building a home in Belfast and want it to be very energy efficient and not polluting. <br /><br />I think that, on the whole, sea level rise will have the greatest impact on our coastal communities. <br /><br /><hr />It's very hard to pick just one of the above since we have been impacted by many, but as we have been farmers, we are concerned about the challenges to providing food to the local community. <br /><br /><hr />I am concerned that while Maine has many lovely old homes, much of the housing stock is not well insulated. This includes both older homes and people living in trailers or substandard housing. This and a reliance on gas powered vehicles all contribute to climate change. The amount of sea level rise and increased precipitation is affected by the amount and sources of the energy we use. <br /><br /><hr />Extreme weather changes are effecting plants and insects <br /><br /><hr />Every US citizen needs to understand and know their carbon footprint.<hr />
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Survey: Did you or someone you know move to the Belfast area because of climate change?
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This ABCD online survey was shared in our <a href="https://mailchi.mp/f74f1b433c6c/all-of-belfast-climate-dialogues-october-2021-news-5193274?e=e152038d88" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">November 2021 newsletter</a>, on our website and on the Belfast Free Library Facebook page. 10 people responded (with a few responses coming in later, through July 2022). A couple respondents said yes, they moved here because of climate change. A few folks offered these comments:<hr />I have not heard anyone say that. I came because of family being here.<hr />We considered a number of areas in the US that we have lived in or visited in the past. We ruled out a number of places because of climate issues. Fortunately for us, we love Maine and consider ourselves to be fortunate to be here in terms of potential climate change. Everywhere has been affected, but so far, Maine has been more fortunate than many other areas.<hr />I moved here after 15 years of looking for the right in-town property and finally found it.<hr /><strong><br />Outside of this survey</strong>, we also had a couple folks share their stories of climate migration with the ABCD project: “<a href="https://abcdbelfast.omeka.net/items/show/37">Climate change: Why we moved</a>” (anonymous); and “<a href="https://abcdbelfast.omeka.net/items/show/40">Long time climate migrant</a>” by Fred Bowers, PhD.
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Survey: Are your holiday habits different now because of climate change?
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In this <a href="https://mailchi.mp/ecb8dbd563f2/all-of-belfast-climate-dialogues-october-2021-news-5224334?e=e152038d88" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">December 2021 ABCD survey from our newsletter</a> (and on our website), 13 people responded (including a few later responses up through July 2022). <br /><br /><strong>1. Have your gift-giving habits or holiday traditions changed because of climate change considerations?</strong><br /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">69% of respondents said yes, their habits or traditions had changed.</span></p>
<br /><strong>2. Tell us how!</strong><hr />I try to buy local or at least in-state gifts and source special holiday meals locally.<hr />Our family group participates in a Secret Santa exchange every year. This year we all agreed that instead of asking/giving a gift, each of us would make a charity donation in the name of our recipient based on what charity our recipient chose.<hr />We recently emptied a house in New Jersey to get it ready for sale and we found ourselves with the seemingly impossible task of dismantling 33 years of accumulation of stuff. It was a herculean task, and we emerged from this journey with a new commitment to stop the crazy consumerism that has infiltrated our living over the decades.<hr />Cost of shipping to others are too expensive! When shipping the shipping costs more than the item.<hr />Buying less consumables and less "things"<hr />We asked relatives to make donations to food banks instead of gifts so less consumerism. Only send a few Christmas cards.<hr />Other than helping relatives who have small children and could use some assistance for Christmas, we have not exchanged gifts. We did not really need anything .We had one string of Christmas lights outdoors, for a short time right around Christmas. I debated even that, but we do have solar panels. This has not been a real change - we have been in this mode for a number of years.<hr />I'm making an effort to shop locally<hr />Creative packaging (rather than purchasing wrapping that will burden the trash stream).<hr />I stopped automatically giving holiday gifts a decade ago.<hr />I am givng experiences and not things, like a class tuition or a local camping trip, no longer going to fly to out of state family holiday gatherings, unless it is a one-time event, like a graduation.<hr />I've been living as low consumption as i can since 1970<hr /><br /><strong>Outside of this survey,</strong> in our 2021 “climate-friendly holidays” ABCD newsletter, we shared <a href="https://mailchi.mp/ecb8dbd563f2/all-of-belfast-climate-dialogues-october-2021-news-5224334?e=e152038d88" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">climate-friendly gift giving ideas submitted by local businesses</a>. (You can read other <a href="https://belfastlibrary.org/abcd-newsletter/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">past ABCD newsletter issues here</a>.)
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Survey: Climate hopes for the new year
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">In January 2022, ABCD sent a survey in our monthly newsletter (and our our website and Facebook page). Respondents were asked in multiple-choice form, what gives you the most hope for climate change this year? 13 people responded, including a couple later responses through July 2022. Comments are shown in full below (Question #2).<br /><br /></span></p>
<strong>1. What gives you the most hope for addressing climate change in 2022?</strong><br /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">__ Increased local awareness & community action</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">__ Individual consumer choices and actions</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">__ Solar farms / renewable electricity</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">__ Ingenuity of humans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">__ Changes in the national political landscape</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">__ Changes in Maine’s political landscape</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">__ Progress on Maine's Climate Action Plan</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">__ Other</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">The most-chosen item was "Increased local awareness & community action", followed by "Solar farms / renewable electricity" and "Progress on Maine's Climate Action Plan".</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Other items mentioned included "The action and organizing of young people to address climate change and environmental justice", and "Inclusive community forums, such as this one."<br /><br /></span></p>
<strong>2. Tell us more about your hopes around climate change for the new year.</strong><br /><br /><hr /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">I did not check the boxes related to political landscape because I'm not sure those will last more than another year; however, I do hope that there will be growing awareness across the political spectrum of the disastrous effects of climate change--unprecedented fires, floods, etc.--that affect everyone regardless of their political affiliation.</span></p>
<hr /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">I hope the Maine legislature passes the Pine Tree Amendment which would guarantee the right to clean air, clean water and a healthy environment for all Maine people. The Pine Tree Amendment would add these environmental rights to the state constitution. In order to do this 2/3 of the state House and Senate have to approve the bill (LD 489). If they do, then the Pine Tree Amendment would appear on the ballot in November of 2022, and would need a majority of Maine people to vote "yes" in order to pass and become law. There is good momentum in the state to add environmental rights to our state constitution, but we need help to pass it, especially in the House. I hope that people will contact their representatives in Augusta and ask them to support this important initiative!</span></p>
<hr /><br /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">Invest in solar and offshore wind</span></p>
<hr /><br /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">I am trying very hard to do what I can as an individual and to communicate my concerns to government officials. I hope that the political landscape does not regress in terms of climate policy - we need to do more!</span></p>
<hr /><br /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">I am most concerned about food production being challenged long term and already challenged, here and world wide. Also learning how to cope with heat without machinery.</span></p>
<hr /><br /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">I’m hopeful for greater awareness and conversation on local scales</span></p>
<hr /><br /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">The invasion of Ukraine is spurring European countries to examine and curb their reliance on fossil fuels, largely from Russia. I hope the US will feel pressure to get more serious in our own efforts.</span></p>
<hr /><br /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">Also, the climate/environmental issues surrounding the influx of large industrial aquafarming proposals in Maine is starting to receive state-wide attention as a real threat to both our environment and our climate goals and concerns.</span></p>
<hr /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">Our City needs to wake up to the realities of this corporate invasion.</span></p>
<hr /><br /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">I believe that increased community education, awareness and participation will lead to the other items listed below.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I hope that each US citizen makes reducing their carbon footprint their #1 goal.</span></p>
<hr /><br /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">I'd like to be more aware and hear the ideas and observations of others.</span></p>
<hr /><br /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">I have been actively waving my arms about climate change and our lack of reponse since 2006. I don't think we have been able to prioritise it. (I used to live in hot low income countries with autocratic governments)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">This ABCD survey was included in our </span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/7cb78cf220c6/all-of-belfast-climate-dialogues-february-2022-news-8818006?e=e152038d88" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span style="font-weight:400;">February 2022 newsletter</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">, complementing the </span><a href="https://abcdbelfast.omeka.net/items/show/48"><span style="font-weight:400;">Farmer Panel Discussion</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;"> we held with local farmers on how climate change was affecting their livelihoods. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Of the 2 survey respondents, one said “Yes” to livelihood/business being affected by climate change; the other said “Maybe” (this second person noted they are retired).<br /><br /></span></p>
<p><strong>1. Tell us more about how your business or job has been affected by climate change.</strong></p>
<hr /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">I sense that this is intended as a narrow lens question, in that there are many careers and societal roles that are not aptly characterized as either "livelihood" or "business." Precision and context would help, as the question invites a bit of interpretation and presumption. I don't wish for a "No" answer to be interpreted as equivalent to saying "Climate change doesn't have an impact on human society." Further, let's say that I'm a school nurse who sees the socio-emotional impacts on the children of someone whose livelihood is impacted by climate change (in fishing or agriculture, e.g.). Is that tantamount to saying that I am "affected by climate change?" As powerful as individual narratives are, I think we should focus data--not interpretation.</span></p>
<hr /><p><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /><strong>2. What things have you done to adapt or cope with these effects of climate change on your business or livelihood?</strong></span></p>
<hr /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">Again, working around your language: I have built an energy efficient home; I installed a photovoltaic solar array the supplies all my electricity needs; I grow a significant percentage of the food I consume; I drive a car that achieves 40 mpg; I try not to support companies and stores whose shelves are stocked with products made on the other side of the globe (and thus with entailed negative environmental costs); I try to learn more about and advocate for policies that show promise for mitigating the negative effects of climate change (such as the carbon fee and dividend); I try to avoid products with plastic packaging; I compost.</span></p>
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Community Climate Conversation: Community Input to
Belfast's Climate Action Plan on June 14, 2022
Comments from Attendees
For a summary of this event please see: https://abcdbelfast.omeka.net/items/show/117.
In addition to the group discussion summarized in the website link above,
participants also submitted the following written ideas and thoughts (on index
cards; and via Google form for those on Zoom):
We here in Belfast live in one of the better parts of the U.S. The climate is moderate and
so far our precipitation and recharge is sufficient to sustain us. Some parts of the
country are not so fortunate. People from less fortunate places may move here. We
need to be ready for growth.
A future with:
● Restored aquatic ecological systems: Rivers, bay, wetlands, streams - plus a
thriving fishing community
● Old growth forests sequestering CO2
● Trains & trolleys
● City surrounded by local farms
Would like to see K-12 educational (i.e. public education) curricular framework that is
skills-based and predictive of climate-based challenges.
Equitable distribution of the "dividends" of moving towards renewables-based energy
(e.g. funding for training or re-training for a renewables-based energy sector), or in
terms of subsidies for those who by socioeconomic status/resources (a la Efficiency
Maine, but more sensitive to the disadvantaged).
Zoning and building ordinances that go beyond "industry standard" to advantage
climate-sensitive construction practices. And "dividend" (e.g. in fee reduction) to those
adopting climate-conscious technologies in construction. (e.g. use of "green concrete,"
better insulation profiles, or lessen soil-permeability.)
Comments From Attendees submitted at June 14th, 2022 “Community Climate Conversations:
Input to Belfast’s Climate Action Plan” meeting
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�The end of the Nordic Fish Factory in Belfast & back in Norway. Encourage businesses
that don't destroy the environment by destroying wild habitat, increasing traffic, noise &
light pollution & dumping their waste in the ocean.
Land use: Using unconventional spaces like roofs to put plants, energy producing
processes, & spaces for humans to be. These can be used as major garden spaces,
socializing spaces, or energy producing.
Traffic circles!
Integrating food waste back into the soil to increase carbon sequestration.
Reduce the use of plastic.
Companies take responsibility for amount of packaging & carbon footprint.
Cleaner cars, trucks, airplanes, trains, buses!
Education - Reach Belfast Area:
a) Bi-weekly articles in Republican Journal / Free Press
b) Outreach - various venues (and track progress):
- Heat Pumps
- Solar
- Insulation
*with financing options that may be available such that new installation is spread
over months at same rate (or less) paid now for utilities.
c) Grants for energy audits - Belfast area homes - lottery to receive.
Using Intelligence to create infrastructure that is cost effective, environmentally
conscious, and implemented all throughout society.
Creating an environment around a net-zero (impact cars, facilities, and making a low
impact on the daily livings of farmers, miners, etc.)
Transportation: Redesigning city vehicles to adapt solar panels into roofs. Redesigning
bus system like a city to support the people who don't want to walk or to use cars less.
Comments From Attendees submitted at June 14th, 2022 “Community Climate Conversations:
Input to Belfast’s Climate Action Plan” meeting
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�This would also help with transportation emissions because of the redesigned solar
panel buses.
Land Use:
Assessment and mindful choice as a community around limiting impermeable and
permeable but non-living surfaces, and preserving plus increasing live plant/tree
surfaces.
Community Outreach:
Education using a temperature camera (can't think of right name).
Yard tours & farm tours to showcase:
● the cooling and climate-regulating power of "foliage height diversity" (FHD),
which correlates closely to biodiversity;
● undisturbed soil hydrology;
● permeable solutions to modern landscape needs;
● live green roofs (do we have any in town?); etc.
● climate-resilient & climate-enhancing food production.
Enlist schools? Students? to replicate Barron-Gafford et al on "Photovoltaic Heat Island
Effect" for our region, to assess benefits/risks of the solar arrays our state is so quickly
subsidizing the installation of. (Barron-Gafford put 3 thermometers 2.5 meters off the
ground, in the middle of a commercial solar array, a parking lot, and wild land, all within
one sq. kilometer. They (I think) took midday and midnight temperatures for 1 year to
compare.)
Metrics should encompass more than just reduced GHG emissions.
Social metrics (socioeconomic) - Who is creating and how?
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Miles driven
Heat pumps installed
Solar panels installed
Percent of population that supports climate action
Percent of impermeable surfaces.
Safe & healthy community that operates in balance with natural systems & individuals
Municipal & businesses that routinely incorporate consideration of nature in discussion
& project designs.
Comments From Attendees submitted at June 14th, 2022 “Community Climate Conversations:
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�I think humans are often motivated by self-interest. It is only a few folks who are
dedicated to a larger vision. Most of us have limited income and energy and also a
limited time line, so we want to know 'what's in it for me?' Yes, better world, but what is
in it for me? I am not cynical. I just think this is how people work. So---free electric bus
that goes every hour out to Reny's and Hannafords and around to MD offices---what's in
it for me is convenience and thrift and easy access as well as less pollution. Subsidies
for heat pumps. What's in it for me? Less pollution but also lower energy bills. I think
this is one way to get people's attention and also participation.
I have no understanding how we can ignore an industry that will increase Belfast's
carbon footprint by 5-7 times. There is no question that industry has to get on board to
mitigate the climate crisis. We have the opportunity to say no to an industry that is
nowhere close to being sustainable and is designed to grow a luxury item for people in
Boston and New York. How can the climate crisis committee not address this 500 lb
gorilla in our midst??
Rapid transition to a green energy future--widespread electrification of energy, transport,
and industrial systems. Accurate accounting of GHG balance of energy production from
biomass and other sources. Infrastructure and lifestyles are energy efficient--and not
just for those who are economically advantaged. Fair pricing of electricity, which we do
not have now. Maintain healthy ecosystems so that we retain or improve the carbon sink
in natural and managed vegetation and on agricultural lands. local food and sourcing of
other products as much as feasible.
Climate change is a complex issue, both in terms of the remediation of existing
problems and preventing future issues. I am interested in the process that the Climate
Crisis Committee and City Council will use to arrive at local priorities and a feasible,
impactful action plan. Research is needed to define the scope of problems (and their
urgency), identify potential strategies, assess levels of responsibility (govt, private
sector, community) and calculate comparative cost-benefits. This process needs to be
thought through early on and gain the formal endorsement of the City Council.
Community Climate Conversations are
co-sponsored by All of Belfast Climate Dialogues
(ABCD), a project of the Belfast Free Library, and
the City of Belfast Climate Crisis Committee. Learn
more: www.belfastlibrary.org/abcd-events
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">This ABCD survey was created mainly to collect ideas from attendees at the June 14, 2022 Community Climate Conversation providing input to the Belfast Climate Crisis Committee for </span><a href="https://belfastlibrary.org/belfast-climate-action-plan-input/"><span style="font-weight:400;">drafting Belfast’s Climate Action Plan</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">. <br /><br />6 people submitted their comments; mainly those attending the meeting on Zoom, but a couple other folks responded after the meeting.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">You can </span><a href="https://abcdbelfast.omeka.net/items/show/117"><span style="font-weight:400;">read all comments in context of our summary of the 6/14/22 Community Climate Conversation</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">; they are also on this page as a PDF file.</span></p>
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What Should Be In Belfast’s Climate Action Plan?
2022 Online Survey Summary
All of Belfast Climate Dialogues (ABCD) & Belfast Climate Crisis Committee (CCC)
For more background please see: https://belfastlibrary.org/belfast-climate-action-plan-input/
This 2-question online survey was available on the Belfast Free Library’s ABCD
web pages (and disseminated via the ABCD monthly newsletter, social media
posts and at events), and had 18 respondents from February to September 2022.
The complete responses are as follows:
1 ) What do you think are the most urgent issues to address in the Belfast Climate
Action Plan? (multiple choice)
The top 3 issues respondents identified were:
● Critical infrastructure (flood control, wastewater management etc.) (12 people)
● Clean energy (solar, grid capacity etc.) (12 people)
● Housing upgrades (weatherization, heat pumps, etc.) (12 people)
These issues were closely followed by:
● Agriculture & forestry (food supply resilience, carbon capture in forests and soil,
etc.) (10 people)
● Transportation (electric vehicles, public transportation options, etc.) (9 people)
● Public health (air quality, ticks & browntail moth, cooling & warming centers, etc.)
(5 people)
9 respondents also specified the following issues under the “Other” category (entries
are shown in their entirety, unedited):
Preserve open space and habitat.
Local governments need to include these issues in their comprehensive plans,
and their land use zoning.
Make Belfast the most pedestrian and bike friendly town in New England. Parking
garage on outskirts of town, no vehicles on main and high, deliveries on side
roads only.
What Should Be in Belfast’s Climate Action Plan? 2022 Online Survey Summary
All of Belfast Climate Dialogues & Belfast Climate Crisis Committee
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�Development of standards for the Council, Planning Board, and Economic
Development that quantify and address carbon footprint.
Stop the corporate take over of Penobscot Bay, Little River Estruary by the fish, if
you thought a few small chicken plants ruined the bay, wait until these huge
Confined Animal Feeding Operations get dug in here!
Learning how to discuss the interconnected news of all these issues and create a
framework for considering them at all levels of decision-making
food forests, passive Haus, off-road bike trails
Stop causing mass depression in gen x people because the climate crisis folks
won't condemn the horrible effects of the Nordic project. You've lost my support
since you won't challenge city council.
Climate change education for everyone from 9 to 90. One avenue would be
weekly informative articles in the Republican Journal.
2 ) Please tell us more about your specific concerns, and share your suggestions.
Need to prioritize the issues: they are all important. I checked the most urgent.
Comprehensive planning needs to acknowledge these critical climate issues
We have to deal with bay/ocean rising and with changing weather patterns. Given
more extreme precipitation events, more consideration needs to be given to
where we build and how we build. Local zoning codes should be re-examined
with this in mind. There should be restrictions on areas that are flood prone due
to ocean rising, but also consider preventing further problems of runoff and
flooding due to extreme precipitation events.
I do find the proposed and nearly 100% approved Nordic fish farm to be contrary
to all climate mitigation measures. From the enormous use of water and its
warm, nutrient-rich effluent to the loss of forestland to build the dang thing and
the diesel generators to keep it going, it seems to take Belfast in the wrong
direction.
What Should Be in Belfast’s Climate Action Plan? 2022 Online Survey Summary
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�We need a Climate Action Plan that is balanced between PROactive and REactive
strategies. The reactive actions are critical to abate climate injury that is already
happening. The proactive actions are equally or even more critical to stop the
perpetuation of short-sided decisions on the part of City governance, planning,
and economic development that enable new climate injury to be initiated.
Also, we are in a crisis and need all hands on deck, working together. We have no
time to duplicate efforts or get gridlocked in differences. Let the science tell us
what we need to do.
Helping families afford to make changes to their heat sources would be helpful
both to the climate and the local economy.
Many do not realise that many citizens of Belfast did not want chicken plants on
the harbor 50 years ago. Also, consider that a vocal half of Bucksport did not
want the paper mill in the 60s. These industries came, went, and left a mess. Tax
benefits after infrastructure costs was not a benefit to the citizens.
I think education about the issues is key. Many residents may not have adequate
information, or be guided by misinformation, in not considering the urgency of
now for each of our individual and collective responses and contributions.
Suggestion: A Showing of "Earth Emergency" - a documentary from PBS - 45
minutes - that is an excellent program on the 4 major feedback loops contributing
to global warming. I mention this program, with hopes that we could have access
to showing it at the Library, given that recently Camden Library hosted a showing
of another PBS documentary. Thank you.
My daughter and her husband own one of the organic farms poisoned with
forever chemicals as a result of sludge spread 30 years ago. Even knowing what
we know now(and knew then), we continue to make short-term decisions without
acknowledging the consequences for those who come after us. We also continue
to calculate cost in immediate dollars without bringing in the other real costs that
are part of many decisions. I would like to see us come up with a model of
decision-making that identifies and includes these costs. Thank you for your
work!!
What Should Be in Belfast’s Climate Action Plan? 2022 Online Survey Summary
All of Belfast Climate Dialogues & Belfast Climate Crisis Committee
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�All 6 described categories are important, as are public education and planning
our response to sea level rise. Improving transportation emissions and housing
heating/cooling technology would address the elements which produce around
3/4s of Belfast's GHG emissions. Beneficial electrification requires that we
increase green power production, without which we cannot reduce our
dependence on fossil fuels.
More severe weather is coming, and we must upgrade our city's infrastructure in
preparation.
I would like to see gentler bike transportation with useful destinations. I would
like an integrated food hub on route 1.
How many heat pumps will it take to offset nordic's CO2 footprint?
I appreciate the CCC's invitation to help develop a CAP. Thank you for all you have
done to prepare our town for the effects of climate change. I applaud your
inclusion of young people on your committee.
1. In order to have community buy-in, I think education about climate change is
important.
I'd be happy to brainstorm with others about how to disseminate useful and
appropriate information about climate change in Maine.
2. Lowering Belfast's greenhouse gas emissions is like putting out a forest fire
(climate change) with a squirt gun. Our energy is better spent on adaptation to
sea level rise, looking at the need to relocate the water treatment facility, etc.
All of the issues above are critical. So proud of this committee for forging ahead
on these issues with education and possible solutions. Available to help.
Community Climate Conversations are
co-sponsored by All of Belfast Climate Dialogues
(ABCD), a project of the Belfast Free Library, and
the City of Belfast Climate Crisis Committee. Learn
more: www.belfastlibrary.org/abcd-events
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All of Belfast Climate Dialogues & Belfast Climate Crisis Committee
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Survey: What Should Be In Belfast’s Climate Action Plan?
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<p style="text-align:center;"><b>What Should Be In Belfast’s Climate Action Plan? </b><b><br /></b><b>2022 Online Survey Summary</b><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><em><span style="font-weight:400;"><br />All of Belfast Climate Dialogues (ABCD) & Belfast Climate Crisis Committee (CCC)</span></em></p>
<p><strong><i>For more background please see: </i><a href="https://belfastlibrary.org/belfast-climate-action-plan-input/"><i>https://belfastlibrary.org/belfast-climate-action-plan-input/</i></a></strong><i><span style="font-weight:400;"><strong> </strong> </span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">This 2-question online survey was available on the Belfast Free Library’s ABCD web pages (and disseminated via the ABCD monthly newsletter, social media posts and at events), and had 18 respondents from February to September 2022. The complete responses are as follows:<br /><br /></span></p>
<p><b>1 ) What do you think are the most urgent issues to address in the Belfast Climate Action Plan? </b><i><span style="font-weight:400;">(multiple choice)</span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">The top 3 issues respondents identified were:</span></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Critical infrastructure (flood control, wastewater management etc.) </span><i><span style="font-weight:400;">(12 people)</span></i></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Clean energy (solar, grid capacity etc.) </span><i><span style="font-weight:400;">(12 people)</span></i></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Housing upgrades (weatherization, heat pumps, etc.) </span><i><span style="font-weight:400;">(12 people)</span></i></li>
</ul><br /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">These issues were closely followed by: </span></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Agriculture & forestry (food supply resilience, carbon capture in forests and soil, etc.) </span><i><span style="font-weight:400;">(10 people)</span></i></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Transportation (electric vehicles, public transportation options, etc.) </span><i><span style="font-weight:400;">(9 people)</span></i></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Public health (air quality, ticks & browntail moth, cooling & warming centers, etc.) </span><i><span style="font-weight:400;">(5 people)</span></i></li>
</ul><br /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">9 respondents also </span><span style="font-weight:400;">specified the following issues under the “Other” category</span><span style="font-weight:400;"> (entries are shown in their entirety, unedited):</span></p>
<hr /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">Preserve open space and habitat.<br /><br /></span></p>
<hr /><p><span style="font-weight:400;"></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Local governments need to include these issues in their comprehensive plans, and their land use zoning.<br /><br /></span></p>
<hr /><p><span style="font-weight:400;"></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Make Belfast the most pedestrian and bike friendly town in New England. Parking garage on outskirts of town, no vehicles on main and high, deliveries on side roads only.</span></p>
<hr /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">Development of standards for the Council, Planning Board, and Economic Development that quantify and address carbon footprint.<br /><br /></span></p>
<hr /><p><span style="font-weight:400;"></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Stop the corporate take over of Penobscot Bay, Little River Estruary by the fish, if you thought a few small chicken plants ruined the bay, wait until these huge Confined Animal Feeding Operations get dug in here!<br /><br /></span></p>
<hr /><p><span style="font-weight:400;"></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Learning how to discuss the interconnected news of all these issues and create a framework for considering them at all levels of decision-making<br /><br /></span></p>
<hr /><p><span style="font-weight:400;"></span><span style="font-weight:400;">food forests, passive Haus, off-road bike trails<br /><br /></span></p>
<hr /><p><span style="font-weight:400;"></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Stop causing mass depression in gen x people because the climate crisis folks won't condemn the horrible effects of the Nordic project. You've lost my support since you won't challenge city council.<br /><br /></span></p>
<hr /><p><span style="font-weight:400;"></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Climate change education for everyone from 9 to 90. One avenue would be weekly informative articles in the Republican Journal.<br /><br /></span></p>
<hr /><p><b><br />2 ) Please tell us more about your specific concerns, and share your suggestions.</b></p>
<hr /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">Need to prioritize the issues: they are all important. I checked the most urgent.</span></p>
<hr /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">Comprehensive planning needs to acknowledge these critical climate issues</span></p>
<hr /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">We have to deal with bay/ocean rising and with changing weather patterns. Given more extreme precipitation events, more consideration needs to be given to where we build and how we build. Local zoning codes should be re-examined with this in mind. There should be restrictions on areas that are flood prone due to ocean rising, but also consider preventing further problems of runoff and flooding due to extreme precipitation events.</span></p>
<hr /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">I do find the proposed and nearly 100% approved Nordic fish farm to be contrary to all climate mitigation measures. From the enormous use of water and its warm, nutrient-rich effluent to the loss of forestland to build the dang thing and the diesel generators to keep it going, it seems to take Belfast in the wrong direction.</span></p>
<hr /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">We need a Climate Action Plan that is balanced between PROactive and REactive strategies. The reactive actions are critical to abate climate injury that is already happening. The proactive actions are equally or even more critical to stop the perpetuation of short-sided decisions on the part of City governance, planning, and economic development that enable new climate injury to be initiated.</span></p>
<hr /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">Also, we are in a crisis and need all hands on deck, working together. We have no time to duplicate efforts or get gridlocked in differences. Let the science tell us what we need to do.</span></p>
<hr /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">Helping families afford to make changes to their heat sources would be helpful both to the climate and the local economy.</span></p>
<hr /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">Many do not realise that many citizens of Belfast did not want chicken plants on the harbor 50 years ago. Also, consider that a vocal half of Bucksport did not want the paper mill in the 60s. These industries came, went, and left a mess. Tax benefits after infrastructure costs was not a benefit to the citizens.</span></p>
<hr /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">I think education about the issues is key. Many residents may not have adequate information, or be guided by misinformation, in not considering the urgency of now for each of our individual and collective responses and contributions. Suggestion: A Showing of "Earth Emergency" - a documentary from PBS - 45 minutes - that is an excellent program on the 4 major feedback loops contributing to global warming. I mention this program, with hopes that we could have access to showing it at the Library, given that recently Camden Library hosted a showing of another PBS documentary. Thank you.</span></p>
<hr /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">My daughter and her husband own one of the organic farms poisoned with forever chemicals as a result of sludge spread 30 years ago. Even knowing what we know now(and knew then), we continue to make short-term decisions without acknowledging the consequences for those who come after us. We also continue to calculate cost in immediate dollars without bringing in the other real costs that are part of many decisions. I would like to see us come up with a model of decision-making that identifies and includes these costs. Thank you for your work!!</span></p>
<hr /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">All 6 described categories are important, as are public education and planning our response to sea level rise. Improving transportation emissions and housing heating/cooling technology would address the elements which produce around 3/4s of Belfast's GHG emissions. Beneficial electrification requires that we increase green power production, without which we cannot reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.</span></p>
<hr /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">More severe weather is coming, and we must upgrade our city's infrastructure in preparation.</span></p>
<hr /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">I would like to see gentler bike transportation with useful destinations. I would like an integrated food hub on route 1.</span></p>
<hr /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">How many heat pumps will it take to offset nordic's CO2 footprint?</span></p>
<hr /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">I appreciate the CCC's invitation to help develop a CAP. Thank you for all you have done to prepare our town for the effects of climate change. I applaud your inclusion of young people on your committee.</span></p>
<span style="font-weight:400;">1) In order to have community buy-in, I think education about climate change is important.</span><br /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">I'd be happy to brainstorm with others about how to disseminate useful and appropriate information about climate change in Maine.<br /><br />2) </span>Lowering Belfast's greenhouse gas emissions is like putting out a forest fire (climate change) with a squirt gun. Our energy is better spent on adaptation to sea level rise, looking at the need to relocate the water treatment facility, etc.</p>
<hr /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">All of the issues above are critical. So proud of this committee for forging ahead on these issues with education and possible solutions. Available to help.</span></p>
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Belfast Climate Crisis Committee
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BELFAST FREE LIBRARY
ALL OF BELFAST
CLIMATE DIALOGUES
Funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services
�Project inspirations
"The most important thing
you can do to fight climate
change: talk about it."
- Katharine Hayhoe, Climate Scientist
�Why talk about climate change?
"Individuals, communities, and societies come to
understand, care and act on climate change
through their communication with others."
- Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
�ABCD TEAM
SARAH KIRN
MISTY MALLAR
BRENDA HARRINGTON
�ABCD PROJECT GOALS
ENGAGE
EDUCATE
DISCUSS
DOCUMENT
Engage broad
cross-section
of Belfast in
talking about
climate
Curate highquality
education
materials
regarding
climate change
Develop
programs to
normalize
conversation
on climate
Archive Belfast
residents' ideas
and priorities
regarding
climate change
�ENGAGE
Extreme heat survey 8/21
Farmer's Market conversations 8/27/21
Fireside Chats at Waterfall Arts
�ENGAGE
"The Art of Re-climation" exhibit
April/May 2022
& digital exhibit
�ENGAGE
"Places & Play" photo contest July 2022
�ENGAGE
Unveiling of Belfast's new tide gauges and high water mark signs 10/8/21
�ENGAGE
Harborfest 2022 electric vehicle demonstration with Climate Crisis Committee
�ENGAGE
ABCD monthly newsletter
�EDUCATE
ABCD climate crisis book
collection at Belfast Free
Library
�EDUCATE
�EDUCATE
�EDUCATE
Resources
about
climate
change in
our region
on ABCD
web pages
�EDUCATE
"Maine Won't Wait: How Maine is Taking Action on Climate Change"
with Dr. Cassaundra Rose, Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future
�EDUCATE
"Maine’s Climate Future: The Role of
Carbon Management in Farms and
Forests"
with Dr. Ivan Fernandez, Climate Change
Institute at the University of Maine
�EDUCATE
�EDUCATE
�EDUCATE
Maine Won't Wait 2-year progress report 12/22
�TALK ABOUT IT
Public Discussion About Belfast Climate Action Plan
June 14, 2022
50+ participants
�TALK ABOUT IT
https://abcdbelfast.omeka.net
�TALK ABOUT IT
Waldo Co. Climate Change Symposium 1/22/22
�TALK ABOUT IT
Farmer panel discussion January 2022:
Second Frost Farm, Daisychain Farm, Bahner Farm
�ARCHIVE
Library YouTube channel
https://abcdbelfast.omeka.net
�ARCHIVE
https://abcdbelfast.omeka.net
�ARCHIVE
https://abcdbelfast.omeka.net
�ARCHIVE
Email ABCD, come to the Library to talk with us,
or share your story online: abcdbelfast.omeka.net
�MENTORS & MODELS FOR BELFAST TO FOLLOW
A Climate to Thrive (Mt. Desert Island):
Local Leads the Way
Comprehensive Building Solutions Program
...and more!
�MENTORS & MODELS FOR BELFAST TO FOLLOW
�WHAT'S NEXT?
What do you think our community needs to
move forward on Climate Action planning?
�THANK YOU
Brenda Harrington
(207) 338-3884 ext. 30
abcd@belfastlibrary.org
https://belfastlibrary.org/all-ofbelfast-climate-dialogues
https://abcdbelfast.omeka.net
Photo: Grace Murdock, ABCD Photo Contest Winner:
1st Place, "Play" category: "Walking on the Beach"
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“Climate Change: Forests, Farms, Habitat, and Sustainability of All Living Things” Belfast Senior College Course presentation by ABCD
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">In this 6-week course at </span><a href="https://belfastseniorcollege.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span style="font-weight:400;">Belfast Senior College</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;"> (March 30 - May 4, 2023, in-person at the Hutchinson Center), attendees are hearing from local land and forest preservation groups who steward the beautiful lands and waters of mid-coast Maine. They will describe their programs, goals and challenges in the face of climate change. The course will initiate conversations on how we can protect and sustain these resources for future generations.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Speakers for the course include ABCD, </span><a href="https://www.georgesriver.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span style="font-weight:400;">Georges River Land Trust</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">, </span><a href="https://www.coastalmountains.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span style="font-weight:400;">Coastal Mountains Land Trust</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">, </span><a href="http://belfastbaywatershed.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span style="font-weight:400;">Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">, and the </span><a href="https://waldocountysoilandwater.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span style="font-weight:400;">Waldo County Soil & Water Conservation District</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">. Moderated by Fred Bowers, former soil and water scientist and the Chair of the </span><a href="https://www.cityofbelfast.org/373/Climate-Change-Committee" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span style="font-weight:400;">Belfast Climate Crisis Committee</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">As part of the first class on March 30th, Brenda Harrington (Adult Programming Librarian and ABCD Project Lead at Belfast Free Library), presented a visual overview of the </span><a href="https://abcdbelfast.omeka.net/about"><span style="font-weight:400;">All of Belfast Climate Dialogues (ABCD)</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;"> project. Her slides and notes are included above. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Class participants (30 total in attendance) had a conversation after the presentation about the possibility of forming a climate action group. Many attendees were from towns surrounding Belfast: Montville, Jackson, Northport and more - and they wanted a climate action planning coalition that would include the whole of Waldo County. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">The group learned more from Brenda about <a href="https://www.aclimatetothrive.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">A Climate To Thrive (ACTT)</a>, a grassroots-based community-driven climate action group encompassing all the towns of Mount Desert Island. ACTT is a potential model for Waldo County to follow for community-based climate action. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">What’s next? Brenda shared that ABCD is planning to have another community discussion soon on climate action planning. Although the ABCD project’s grant funding ends in August 2023, the ABCD team is hopeful that others in the community will benefit from the progress that has been made in talking about climate change - and that there will be leadership and continued momentum toward action.<br /><br /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Talking points to go with presentation:</span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><b>Slide 1- Title</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I am here to tell you about the All of Belfast Climate Dialogues project of the BFL</span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">In 2020, the Belfast Free Library won a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services to facilitate conversations among broad cross-section of the Belfast community about climate change to ensure that all voices and views are heard.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Part of this grant is to collect and save Belfast area residents’ observations, concerns and hopes about climate change impacts in our region at this critical time. This collection is meant to increase awareness of each other’s experiences, and serve as a benchmark for future reference - and hopefully as a catalyst for taking action now.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><b>Slide 2. Katharine Hayhoe</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Inspirations and background of grant:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">In 2019 when we applied for the grant, no one was talking about climate change. My grant partner, Sarah approached me with project idea - inspired by climate scientist Katharine Heyhoe. Talking about it is one of the most important things we can do to support climate action.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">“The most important thing we can do about climate change is talk about it- talk about why it matters, and how we can fix it- and use our voices to advocate for change within in our spheres of influence”</span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Additional Comment:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">It sounds simplistic but Dr. Hayhoe has dedicated the last 15 years of her career on encouraging people to talk about climate change. “Talking about climate change and helping others connect climate change to the things they care about can lead to advocacy and action.”</span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><b>Slide 3.Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.</b><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">In writing our grant we were also influenced and encouraged by the reports from the Yale Program on Climate Change Commincation that their studies have found … Read quote. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;"></span><span style="font-weight:400;">We found out that we got the grant in June 2020 to begin in September 2020.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><b>Slide 4. ABCD Project Team </b><span style="font-weight:400;">Introduction</span></p>
<p><b>Sarah</b><span style="font-weight:400;">- a Consultant with experience in processes for public engagement, education, worked at GMRI and currently at NASA leading Citizen Science initiatives.</span></p>
<p><b>Misty</b><span style="font-weight:400;">- Our communication specialist - this project is essentially a communication challenge!</span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Brenda -Librarian, experienced with community engagement</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Together we focused on developing and carrying out the project goals:</span></p>
<p><b><br /></b><b>Slide 5 ABCD Project Goals</b><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><b>Next Slides about Engage:</b><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">The ABCD project began in the fall of 2020, mere months into the COVID-19 pandemic. Our plans for facilitating cozy conversations among Belfast residents to help each other learn how to be comfortable sharing and listening to others’ perspectives, priorities, and observations of climate change and its impacts were no longer safe to do. We had to come up with another plan.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><b>Slide 6 Outreach at community events was one way ….</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Surveys were another way example here of the heat survey, which had 60+ responses from many community places- soup kitchen, high school…</span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><b>Slide 7 -</b><b><br /></b><span style="font-weight:400;">Engage the community about climate change through art and poetry:</span></p>
<p><b>Call for Art</b><span style="font-weight:400;">- In late 2021 we put out a call for art about Climate Change for an exhibit called </span><b>“The Art of ReClimation”</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> The curated collection represented over 30 artists and some poets and was on display in the Library’s Kramer Gallery and Abbott Room April- May 2022.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">The Exhibit is also available as a digital exhibit on our webpage.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><b>Slide 8 </b><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">ABCD's summer 2022 photo contest, </span><b>"Celebrating Belfast: Places & Play!"</b> <span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">We asked for submissions about what you love about our area, what you care about and would like to protect in the face of Climate Change Impacts. We received </span><span style="font-weight:400;">35 great submissions! See thte winners and runners up at the top .</span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><b>Slide 9- Tide Gauge: </b><b><br /></b><span style="font-weight:400;">ABCD was excited to take part in the</span><b> Unveiling of Belfast's new tide gauges and high water mark signs in October 2021</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> : </span><span style="font-weight:400;">This project was the result of three years of work involving the Climate Crisis Committee, Students from BAHS, US Harbors, our Harbor Master and many more. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">With the installation of these new gauges Belfast can gather local </span><span style="font-weight:400;">data to better understand what is happening right here with sea level rise and storm surges The data is sent to National Weather Service in Gray, Maine. Work continues on this project.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><b>Slide 10- Outreach at Harbor Fest- </b><b><br /></b><span style="font-weight:400;">tabled with the CCC, demonstration of electric vehicles. </span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><b>Slide 11-</b><b><br /></b><b>Our Monthly Newsletter- </b><span style="font-weight:400;">outreach to the community- with news and events often with reports about our programs. </span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">If you would like to sign up I have a sheet for you to do so.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Past issues on the website.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><b>Slide 12- 14 Educate:</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">When we started the project in fall of 2020 we did what we could to start the conversation about climate change by adding educational resources to the library’s collection and website:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">>We began adding books to the library collection.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">>We created new webpages with information about climate change and the value of talking about climate change.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">> Resources about Climate Action Planning and Climate Action Leadership. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;"> </span></p>
<p><b>Slide 15 -Maine Won’t Wait:</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">In December of 2020 the Maine Climate Council and the Governor's Office of Policy and Innovation for the Future released </span><b>Maine Won’t Wait: A Four Year Plan for Climate Action.</b></p>
<p><b>Four Goals : 1.To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions,</b><b><br /></b><b>2.Avoid the Impacts and Costs of Inaction, 3. Foster Economic Opportunity and Prosperity,and 4. Advance Equity through Maine’s Climate Response.</b></p>
<p><b>The plan has 8 topic areas with recommendations for action. It’s a Very Comprehensive plan.</b><b><br /><br /></b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Its release informed and influenced the direction of our programming as we touched on the topics:</span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><b>Slide 16 & 17</b><b><br /></b><b>We hosted programs to explain the goals and implementation of the plan like this one with Dr. Rose from GOPIF</b></p>
<p><b>and Dr. Fernandez from Umaine on the role of carbon management...</b><b>a topic also addressed in Maine won’t wait.</b><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><b>Slide 18 & 19</b></p>
<p><b>Another Covid pivot was to host zoom programs for community organizations</b><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">The Library was able to use zoom to create an event series co-sponsored with Belfast organizations such as the Garden Club and BBWC, </span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">we agreed to have the topics in the series be about climate change. </span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">(there are a lot of them!). We have a lot of really smart people in our state! </span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Did any of you attend one of our zoom programs?</span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /><br /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">BTW- All of these programs were recorded and can be found on the Belfast Free Library’s YouTube Channel.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><b>Slide 20</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Maine Won’t Wait two year progress report last December is an encouraging report that outlines statewide successes in the reduction in GHG as well as the growing number of communities participating in the Community Resilience Partnership- a state program to help with climate planning and funding to implement projects to mitigate or adapt to climate disruption. Lots to talk about.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><b>DISCUSS or TALK ABOUT IT</b><b><br /></b><b>Slide 21- </b><b>June 14</b><b>th</b><b>:</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">So…. Here in Belfast, we were inspired by MWW and the need for planning for climate change impacts.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">In June of 2022, we teamed up with Belfast’s Climate Crisis Committee to host a series of Community Climate Conversations on topics to be included in a </span><b>Belfast Climate Action Plan</b><span style="font-weight:400;">. This first conversation was broad, seeking suggestions from the audience.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><b>Slide 22</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Since June of 2022 we have hosted 3 more Community Climate Conversations: one on Building Resilience for Big Storms and Flooding,</span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">one on Modernizing our Homes and Buildings, and this one in February being most recent and inspirational on the Future of Transportation in Belfast and Waldo County.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">In each of these conversations : we brainstormed ideas through a framework of actions individuals can do, actions we can do as a community together and the things we recommend the municipality can do. We called these the “three buckets”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">All of the notes, recordings and full reports are available on our ABCD collection site linked to from the ABCD Drop down menu.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><b>Slide 23</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Earlier in 2022 With the CCC we also hosted the Waldo County Climate Symposium on zoom. The goal of the symposium was to foster collaboration and coordination among the active organizations.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Fifteen Waldo County organizations with climate change-related activities attended the symposium. Each gave a 5-minute presentation about who they are, their present activities related to climate change, and their future plans. A summary of each presentation is available in the symposium report in the ABCD Collection. The symposium ended with an enthusiastic call for continued conversation.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><b>Slide 24</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Zoom community panel discussions like this panel of Local Farmers….</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Poignant discussion about their first had experiences dealing with unpredictable weather in every season making it challenging to grow our food! Thank a Farmer.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">(You will be viewing this recording later in the course, I show this to put it in context for you)</span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Each of these programs and discussions are archived on the ABCD collection site </span><span style="font-weight:400;">(Omeka URL), and the recordings are on our YouTube Channel.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><b>Slides 25- 28: ARCHIVE:</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Early on in the project we were able to create this online collection space where we invited Belfast area residents to post writings, letters, artwork, poems, pictures - anything that captures their observations, fears, hopes, or priorities about Climate Change. These are some examples….</span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">While we have gotten some submissions – always seeking more.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;"> The suggestions and ideas.This site serves as a digital archive of the ABCD project, with more in depth reports of the programs and discussions.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><b>Thoughts/ Obersvations:</b><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">What we have learned/observed from all the programs and conversations is that there is a need for leadership for Community Driven Climate Action Planning.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Climate Change and all the issues around it can be overwhelming and lead to despair, </span><span style="font-weight:400;">I often hear people say, What can I do about it? or it’s too late… </span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">But we have found that working together towards solutions can be uplifting and motivating. Like when we had the community climate conversations and people got excited about</span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Examples can be found in A Climate to Thrive (ACTT)</span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><b>Slide 29 : Local Mentors and Models</b></p>
<p><b>ACTT: A community based Climate Action group from MDI.</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">They started small (2015) gathered at potlucks to develop a shared vision of solutions to climate change impacts. They are now a non-profit with paid staff, offering programs and support to help folks transition off fossil fuels. They are working towards energy independence for MDI by 2030. Lats year I began attending their Local Leads the Way meetings- this is a support group for communities engaged in community drivenm solutions focused climate action.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Other ACTT programs on slide- Building Solutions and Climate Ambassador Training.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><b>Slide 30-Sierra Club</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Helps commnities work together on climate advocacy to influence decision makers. </span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">I recently met with Sierra Club’s grassroots Climate Action Organizer, Nyalat Biliew. She had lots of ideas and suggestions for us. We plan to invite hespeak to us sometime soon...</span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><b>Slide 31- Final slide </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">What’s Next ?</span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">What does our community need to move forward on Climate Action Planning?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Before I open it up to your comments I want to share this:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">We envision the formation of a coordinating body to bring all the groups working on Climate related issues together. A network/ alliance/ umbrella group</span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><b>> to be created by ? You and me.</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">The CCC is an advisory board to the city. They are doing a great job in this capacity. But they are not a Community Driven Climate Action Team.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">We have observed that citizens want help and resources and support of all kinds to make the changes needed to get off the dependence on Fossil Fuels. </span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Municipalities can’t do this for individuals.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">But we can.</span></p>
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Stay in Touch - Keep Talking About It - and Together, Let’s
Turn Community Conversations into Action
ABCD Final Presentation & Celebration
Tuesday, August 29th at 5:00 PM
Abbott Room at Belfast Free Library
5:00 - 5:45 PM Mingling & light refreshments
5:45 - 7:00 PM Presentation & time for
conversation
Join the ABCD team, Sarah Kirn, Misty Mallar and
librarian Brenda Harrington as we highlight our efforts
of the past three years to engage the community in
conversations about climate resiliency for Belfast.
The ABCD team: Sarah Kirn, Misty Mallar and
librarian Brenda Harrington.
From 2020-2023, ABCD has held over 40 educational programs & community climate
conversations, engaging over 1,500 people. You can find these on our YouTube ABCD playlist,
and highlighted in our Event summaries and links to ABCD website archive at
belfastlibrary.org/abcd-events.
Although the funding for this IMLS grant program is ending, the Library will continue offering
educational programs on the climate crisis and supporting community climate action.
Please join us to reflect and celebrate, and to recognize the many local organizations we
have partnered with on education and climate action.
“Climate Action Plan for Belfast” ~ Republican Journal
On August 14, the Republican Journal reported on the “standing room only” presentation of the
City Of Belfast Climate Action Plan (CAP) by the Belfast Climate Crisis Committee (now the
Climate, Energy and Utilities Committee / CEUC).
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“The presenters, past members of the CCC (Fred
Bowers and Barbara Bell), and present members of
the CEUC (Jerry Brand, Jon Beal and Bernie Baker),
focused on the challenges to the city of Belfast
posed by climate change, and initiatives for
adaptation of our critical infrastructure to enable
Belfast to be resilient with equity for all residents.
[...] In addition to critical infrastructure, the [CAP]
includes initiatives that can be taken by property
owners, such as rain gardens to reduce flooding and
installation of heat pumps in homes to reduce
energy costs.”
The CAP was presented to Belfast City Council on June 4 and is awaiting adoption. Some of the
recommended actions are already underway, and a search for funding for others is occurring.
Attendees expressed an interest in participating in some form of a climate action advocacy
organization to become further involved.
Read the article at the Republican Journal or on the ABCD site & view the recording on
YouTube.
Rising Fear & Our Response to Climate Change
This heartfelt piece is from Johannah Blackman,
Executive Director of Mount Desert Island’s A
Climate To Thrive, excerpted from ACTT’s August
2023 email newsletter.
Johannah’s reflections really spoke to us (the ABCD team). We have been talking weekly about
the sense of panic that is rising, as it seems the world is simultaneously flooding and on fire. We
wanted to share these thoughts on using this opportunity to work on climate change from
a place of calm, creativity and collaboration - not just a place of fear:
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“As heat domes settled over parts of the globe, as wildfires and flash floods destroyed
neighborhoods and communities, and as Maine spent a solid month under clouds and fog, I
have felt fear rise in people near and far. In some ways, this is good: many people are sitting
up and paying attention to climate change.
However, I worry about fear. For some time now, those of us working on climate change have
wondered what a global response will look like if that response ultimately comes as a reaction
to horrific events. This response will be shaped extensively by fear. How will that change the
response? What will be lost that might have been present had we responded from a less
reactionary place, with enough focus and calm to consider nuance and be deliberate and
comprehensive in solutions?
[…] As I feel fear about climate change understandably rise, including within myself, I
fervently hope we continue to open our minds to nuanced, collaborative solutions, not just
the most obvious fixes. I hope we continue to listen to the communities impacted and served,
and not just the forces that will have the power and funds to swoop in and sell quick-fixes. I
hope we do not lose sight of the tremendous opportunity within working to address climate
change. May our fear drive us not towards paranoid reactivity but towards conscious
involvement and creativity.”
~ Johannah Blackman, Executive Director of A Climate To Thrive, August 2023 newsletter
Learn more about A Climate to Thrive and their work on solar, building solutions,
transportation and more Mount Desert Island and in Maine at aclimatetothrive.org
Stay in touch ~ keep talking about it ~
and together, let’s turn conversations into action!
The ABCD project endeavored to help connect the dots between climate
concern, climate hope, and climate action. There are things each of us
can work on today - from taking small personal actions to working
towards big systemic change. We all matter. Together, we can - and are making a difference. And nothing feels as hopeful as taking action with
others against climate change.
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Although the ABCD grant funding is coming to a close August 31st, the
Library will continue in its role as an educator, convenor and amplifier of
efforts to address the climate crisis and become more resilient as a
community.
Stay tuned to the ABCD Home Page for local climate action news updates and
the ABCD Events page, Library Calendar for upcoming events. Follow the
Library on Facebook and Instagram for updates.
There are currently several exciting conversations happening around
forming a local Belfast-area group to work on climate initiatives!
If you are interested in learning more and getting involved, please talk with
Brenda Harrington, Adult Programming Librarian and she will connect you
with those individuals who are starting to take the lead on creating a local
climate action network.
Email: bharrington@belfastlibrary.org
Phone: (207) 338-3884 ext. 30.
Thank you to all who have participated in and supported All of Belfast
Climate Dialogues for the past three years!
The All of Belfast: Climate Dialogues (ABCD) project is capturing community perspectives - photographs, written stories,
videos and more - on the ABCD website. This collection will help increase our awareness of each others’ experiences, create
a point of reference for the future, and perhaps prompt us to take action now in preparation for the challenges ahead.
This project of the Belfast Free Library was made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
IMLS grant number: APP-246100-OLS-20. Read the proposal on the IMLS website.
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“Community Resilience for the Climate Emergency”
Wednesday, July 19th, 2023 at 6:00 PM
at Belfast Free Library (with Zoom option)
The Peace & Social Justice Forum/Waldo County, in coordination with
ABCD and Possibility Alliance, will host Dr. Peter Kalmus, award
winning author and climate scientist from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab.
Dr. Kalmus has said that “Global Warming is happening with a
rapidity that leaves me speechless” and he is dismayed that our
government is not placing this existential threat at the center of the
challenges that we are facing. Moving beyond fossil fuels and how
we as individuals can work toward this goal, while living fulfilled lives
is the question he and his family have been grappling with.
Dr. Peter Kalmus
Dr. Kalmus will share his personal journey in this essential work, and will discuss how we can
respond as individuals locally, and in collective ways to move us toward a fossil free future. His
award-winning book is titled “Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution.”
Following the presentation on July 19, Dr. Kalmus will join other climate activists for two
community circles to further the conversation about practical ways to support a just transition
and increase community resilience in this time of climate crisis. Both circles are open to the
public and will be held at the Possibility Alliance, 85 Edgecomb Road, Belfast on Sunday July 23,
and Saturday August 5, from 4-6 pm. All are invited.
ABCD Celebration Event
Grant funding for the ABCD project is coming to a close at the end of August, and our team is
celebrating 3 years of educating and encouraging dialogue about climate change. Going
forward, the Library will continue offering educational programs on the climate crisis, and
supporting community action. Save the date: Tuesday, August 29th from 5-8 PM at the
Belfast Free Library. Stay tuned for more details!
*If you want to be part of a citizen-led climate action network in Belfast, building on the
work of ABCD and so many others, please reach out to Brenda Harrington at the Belfast
Free Library.*
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Community Composting in the Works for Belfast
In response to recent reports that the yearly
amount of carbon emissions generated by
wasted food in the U.S. is equal to that of 42
coal-fired power plants and that households
account for half of the wasted food, an informal
committee has formed to spearhead a
community composting program for Belfast.
Committee members, from the Belfast Garden
Club, ABCD / Belfast Free Library and local
churches, have been meeting with Davis
Saltonstall of ScrapDogs Community Compost to
Example of a community composting drop-off site in
Southern Maine, courtesy Garbage to Garden.
learn about the options. ScrapDogs already provides compost pickup service to local businesses
& organizations like The Belfast Soup Kitchen, Rollie’s and the Belfast Community Co-op.
The committee is excited to share that they have identified a promising site and hope to
announce and confirm this by end of July! Stay tuned for updates.
Comprehensive Plan Draft Updates for
Belfast Include Climate Solutions
The "City of Belfast Draft Comprehensive Plan
Update May 2023" (including a section on
"Climate Solutions") was shared with the public in
an open house on June 29th. The document can
be found on the Belfast Library ABCD website or
you can ask a librarian to see a printed copy.
Your feedback can be emailed to the
Comprehensive Planning Committee at
compplan@cityofbelfast.org.
Belfast Accepted to Community
Resilience Partnership; Applying for
Heat Pump Grant
On June 20th, 2023, Belfast City Council
authorized the enrollment of the City of
Belfast into the Governor's Office of Policy
Innovation and the Future’s Community
Resilience Partnership.
On July 5th, the City Council authorized an
application for its first Community Action
Grant for $50,000, to fund heat pump
installation in multiple City-owned buildings.
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Climate Action Plan final draft complete; Belfast
application for Community Resilience Partnership
On June 6, 2023 the Belfast City Council and
Climate Crisis Committee (CCC) held a
‘Community Resilience Partnership’ Public
Workshop to review the components of the
application for enrolling in Maine’s Community
Resilience Partnership. With acceptance into the
CRP program, Belfast would be eligible for State
grant awards (up to $50,000 twice a year) to
help reduce carbon emissions, transition to
clean energy, and become more resilient to
climate change effects.
Economic Development Director Thomas Kittredge presented a draft Community Resilience
Self-Evaluation & List of Community Actions (part of the CRP application). The CCC provided the
Council with a short summary of 6 suggested priority actions for Belfast (see below), derived
from the final draft of the Climate Action Plan (CAP) which was submitted to the Council on June
5, 2023.
The CAP and the above short list of recommendations come directly from the CCC’s community
outreach, including a series of “Community Climate Conversations” held by All of Belfast
Climate Dialogues & the CCC to vet priorities and collect public feedback & ideas.
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The CAP and the above short list of recommendations come directly from the CCC’s community
outreach, including a series of “Community Climate Conversations” held by All of Belfast
Climate Dialogues & the CCC to vet priorities and collect public feedback & ideas.
In next steps following the June 6th meeting, each Council member was asked to select their
top 2 recommended priority actions or issues to focus on. With this direction, Kittredge is
drafting a resolution of commitment for the Council to discuss and adopt at the June 20th City
Council Meeting. This resolution provides the final step allowing Belfast to complete its
application to the CRP.
Once the City’s application has been accepted, the prioritized action areas will become the
focus for developing implementation grant applications for the next 1-3 years.
Check out the links on www.belfastlibrary.org/abcd-newsletter for some examples of what
other Maine communities are doing with their grants (and other documents referenced above).
ABCD would like to congratulate and thank the CCC members for their outstanding
efforts in completing the CAP and for volunteering their expertise and time. Thank you
to City staff and the City Council for moving this process forward to enroll Belfast in the
Community Resilience Partnership. Thank you to all community members who have
contributed their ideas.
Learn more & show your support
Please consider attending the City Council Meeting on Tuesday, June 20th at 7:00 PM to show
your support for the Community Resilience Partnership enrollment, and the presentation of the
Climate Action Plan to the City Council. Alternately you may write an email or letter to the City
Council, to be shared during the meeting. Thank you!
Running for City Council: what better way to be an
engaged citizen?
If you’ve ever considered serving on the City Council and want to learn more, please join Belfast
City Councilor Mike Hurley on Monday, June 19 for a Zoom class on “How to run and serve on
the Belfast City Council.”
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Here is a description from Mike: “Have you ever wanted to serve as a city councilor? On June
19th at 6:30 I'll start a 3 evenings zoom class on "how to run and serve on the Belfast City
Council." I have not had an opponent in years! This November my seat will be up. I'll tell you
everything about serving you want to know and all that you do not want to know. The good and
the bad. This will be anonymous for you so if you secretly have wanted to run or you were
reluctant you can watch without worries. This class will be fun. I have served 9? 10? Terms as
Mayor or Councilor and will impart all it takes.”
Time: Monday, June 19, 2023 at 6:30 PM
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83314051443
If you need a phone number to call in, or you have questions for Mike, please reach out to him
at mike@pilut.com.
Report on Sustainable Communities Day
On June 1, 2023 ABCD co-sponsored the Sustainable Communities Day organized by the Belfast
Bay Watershed Coalition. Held in conjunction with the annual Pen Bay Stewards Training, this
event was intended to create connections among organizations with a sustainability-related
mission and showcase their work for the interested members of our community.
The event took place at the Belfast Boathouse, with an afternoon of presentations and local
businesses and nonprofits exhibiting around the room. It was inspiring to see the many
organizations that are offering solutions to help us reduce our carbon footprint and green our
economy.
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Brenda Harrington (from ABCD) was invited to give an overview of the Community Climate
Conversations series hosted by the Library's ABCD program and co-sponsored by the Climate
Crisis Committee. She shared some of the ideas suggested by attendees at the programs as
well as some of our key takeaways.
At each of the four conversations we heard the need for education about available resources
and leadership. In particular, there was a clear call for an organization or alliance to connect the
groups already working towards sustainability and reducing our reliance on fossil fuels.
Following the presentations on June 1st, the panel discussion was a chance for the audience to
ask questions and make suggestions as to what they see as next steps. These included:
What would it take for Belfast to be a sustainable city?
Suggestion to encourage the City of Belfast to implement policies that require
“Sustainability tied to economic development.”
What are the next steps to forming a coalition of climate action groups? Who or what
organization might fill this role?
Suggestion to start by joining an existing effort – volunteer with one of the groups in the
room.
From the discussion it is clear that there is an interest in forming a coalition, but
no one is taking the charge to organize it, yet.
If you are interested in meeting to discuss forming a Climate Action Network,
contact Brenda at bharrington@belfastlibrary.org.
Sign up to receive this newsletter by email: www.belfastlibrary.org/abcd-newsletter
The All of Belfast: Climate Dialogues (ABCD) project is capturing community perspectives - photographs, written stories,
videos and more - on the ABCD website. This collection will help increase our awareness of each others’ experiences, create
a point of reference for the future, and perhaps prompt us to take action now in preparation for the challenges ahead.
This project of the Belfast Free Library was made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
IMLS grant number: APP-246100-OLS-20. Read the proposal on the IMLS website.
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Community Roundup of Belfast Springtime Events &
Actions Addressing Climate Change
Happy Spring! As you'll see in this issue, there is a great deal of spring-like energy and excitement
in Belfast for learning about, talking about, and doing something about climate change.
If you know of other events, please share them with us at abcd@belfastlibrary.org. And please
share your experiences of getting involved with any of the events & activities below!
Help raise funds to
install refillable
water bottle stations
in Belfast
The Creation Care Committee of St. Margaret’s
Episcopal Church, Belfast, has announced a
public fundraising campaign for three public
access refillable water bottle stations, with
attached pet water bowls, for downtown Belfast.
These stations will help with efforts to eliminate
single-use plastic water bottles.
To make these a reality before the summer
tourist season begins the committee must
raise approximately $20,000 by April 30.
You can help by sending your donation to the
fiscal agent for this project: Friends of Belfast
Parks, a 501(c)(3) organization.
Your donation is tax deductible.
Mail checks to:
Friends of Belfast Parks
PO Box 947
Belfast, Maine 04915
(Include “water fountains” in the memo.)
‘Stop Funding Fossil
Fuels’ Belfast rally
on Tuesday, 3/21
Four U.S. banks - Bank of America, Citibank,
Chase, Wells Fargo - lead the world in funding
new fossil fuel projects.
This rally is sponsored by Third Act Maine which
welcomes planet lovers of all ages. Third Act is a
national climate organization started by
environmentalist Bill McKibben for folks aged 60
and over. Older folks in the ‘third act’ of their
lives have unique power in their numbers and
experience, wisdom and share of financial
assets.
Tuesday, March 21 is Third Act’s National Day
of Action to send a message to the banks.
Third Act Maine is hosting 2 powerful, fun events
- one in Portland’s Monument Square from 34:30 and an event in Belfast from 8-9am.
If you are interested in carpooling to Portland
and/or joining the Belfast rally please email
3rdactmidcoastmaine@gmail.com or call 207573-0430 for more details.
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"Rx for a Chaotic Climate:
Healthy Soils” ~ Belfast
Garden Club lecture on
Tuesday 3/28
Penobscot Bay
Stewards program
application
(deadline March 31)
The Penobscot Bay Stewards, a signature
program of Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition,
invites applications for the 2023 program. The
program will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays
between May 9 and June 15 and is free of
charge.
It only requires a good pair of shoes and an
eagerness to learn about a range of topics
including Penobscot Bay history, marine
habitats, the culture of the Wabanaki, water
quality, and current regional issues with
environmental impact.
Learn more and apply at
belfastbaywatershed.org/pen-bay-stewards.
Application deadline is March 31.
In recent years, Mainers have noticed chaotic
weather patterns caused by climate change.
State representative and soil scientist Laurie
Osher will discuss practices that preserve and
enhance soil organic matter to increase
sequestration of carbon in soils. She will outline
bills she’s worked on to improve land
management to decrease climate change
impacts on our $3.6 billion agricultural industry.
She will speak about helping communities in
Penobscot, Piscataquis and Aroostook counties
obtain funding from the state so they can
become more resilient to climate changes.
Tuesday, March 28 at 6:30 PM on Zoom
Learn more and register for the Zoom link at
belfastlibrary.org/abcd-events
Co-sponsored by Belfast Garden Club and ABCD.
"Walk & Roll Belfast" Group
A new group called “Walk & Roll Belfast” is being created to
help citizens create more active transit in our community.
SIGN UP to learn more: Send your email address to
walkandrollbelfast@gmail.com to be added to the list!
Learn more about active transit from the Belfast
Pedestrian, Biking & Hiking Committee, and what’s
happening in Belfast with transportation:
abcdbelfast.omeka.net/items/show/134
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Belfast Senior
College 6-week
course on
Climate Change
"Climate Change: Forests, Farms, Habitat,
and Sustainability of All Living Things"
In this 6-week class at Belfast Senior College,
attendees will hear from local land and forest
preservation groups who steward the beautiful
lands and waters of mid-coast Maine. They will
describe their programs, goals and challenges in
the face of climate change.
The course will initiate conversations on how we
can protect and sustain these resources for
future generations.
Speakers include Belfast Free Library’s ABCD
project, Georges River Land Trust, Coastal
Mountains Land Trust, Belfast Bay Watershed
Coalition, and the Waldo County Soil & Water
Conservation District. Moderated by Fred
Bowers, former soil and water scientist and the
Chair of the Belfast Climate Crisis Committee.
March 30 - May 4th, 2023
Thursdays from 9:30 - 11:30 am
In-person at Hutchinson Center
Learn more and sign up here:
belfastseniorcollege.org.
Local Leads the
Way meeting on
April 10
Several folks from Belfast, including Climate
Crisis Committee and ABCD team members,
have been regularly attending A Climate To
Thrive’s Local Leads the Way monthly meetings.
The last one was an invigorating discussion on
community-driven climate action planning. The
group dove into the benefits of a communitydriven approach to planning, how that approach
can help build capacity for implementation, and
accompanying challenges and opportunities.
The discussion was fruitful - and extremely
relevant to Belfast’s current efforts - and the next
meeting will continue with this topic, starting
with implementation.
Monday, April 10 at 4:00 PM on Zoom
Register for the meeting here:
aclimatetothrive.org/localleadstheway
A Climate To Thrive is a fantastic organization
working towards energy independence for Mount
Desert Island by 2030 - and building a network of
community-driven, solutions-focused climate action
throughout the state of Maine.
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BAHS Engineering Class Designing new Instrument Mast
for City Landing
City of Belfast
Climate Crisis Committee
Jerry Brand of the Belfast Climate Crisis Committee (CCC) reports that he is working with Dave
Thomas's Engineering class at Belfast Area High School (BAHS) to design and document in CAD the
parts for a new Instrument Mast for the City Landing. This will consolidate existing weather and tide
instruments at one location and add new sensors.
The new sensors are provided through US Harbors, and include a Tide Gauge, a Weather Station, and
Time Lapse Video Camera. All instrument outputs either are or will be available to the Marine Science
program at BAHS and the Harbor Office, and will be displayed on the Maine Harbors and Weather
Underground websites.
This extremely detailed hyper-local data is already providing insights into the progressing weather
changes, and will prove invaluable as Belfast makes decisions on how to adapt in the future.
With the enthusiastic help from the BAHS students, and the support of materials and facilities from
Front Street Shipyard and Belmont Boatworks, the new mast should be in place by early summer
2023.
This project is a collaborative effort of the CCC and the Belfast Harbor Committee working with BAHS.
Sign up to receive this newsletter by email: www.belfastlibrary.org/abcd-newsletter
The All of Belfast: Climate Dialogues (ABCD) project is capturing community perspectives - photographs, written stories,
videos and more - on the ABCD website. This collection will help increase our awareness of each others’ experiences, create
a point of reference for the future, and perhaps prompt us to take action now in preparation for the challenges ahead.
This project of the Belfast Free Library was made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
IMLS grant number: APP-246100-OLS-20. Read the proposal on the IMLS website.
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The Future of Transportation in Belfast & Waldo County:
Summary from 2/9/23
ABCD and the Belfast Climate Crisis Committee (CCC)
hosted the fourth Community Climate Conversation on
February 9, 2023. “The Future of Transportation in
Belfast & Waldo County” event took place in the Abbott
Room at the Belfast Free Library. 37 people attended in
person and on Zoom.
We heard updates from two CCC members, and from
the Belfast Pedestrian, Biking & Hiking Committee on
their vision & priorities for Belfast.
Some takeaways & ideas from participants:
It was thought-provoking and energizing to discuss a "culture shift" in the future of transportation re-envisioning our habits and the ways we can provide a “diversity of mobility options” for everyone!
The City of Belfast is in the process of applying for Maine’s Community Resilience Partnership
program - making Belfast eligible for no-match grant monies for projects to reduce carbon
emissions, transition to clean energy, and become more resilient to climate change. The City will
complete a self-evaluation and seek public input as part of the process.
The Pedestrian, Biking & Hiking Committee presented their annual report to the City on February 7.
Their key recommendation is that the City hire a professional planner to draft an official
comprehensive pedestrian/bike plan. The Committee, with the City’s support, is pursuing grants to
hire the professional planner to create this master plan.
A few highlights from the attendee conversation (see full report for more):
“Slow tourism” & the idea to try closing a city street to car traffic in summer.
Look back on community layouts of 100 years ago, with clustered “service nodes” meeting people’s
needs. Modern version could be “mini cities” within 15 minutes walking distance?
Municipal support for year-round biking, walking (e.g. where snow is plowed)
Ridesharing community
"Coordinated transit" with Waldo Community Action Partners
Idling ordinance
Rain gardens and curb bump-outs to make intersections safer (Lancaster, PA is an example).
GO MAINE provides FREE ride matching for carpoolers, and rewards people for taking greener trips.
View the full summary of the event including presenter’s slides, handouts, resources, actions
we can take, and more ideas from attendees: https://abcdbelfast.omeka.net/items/show/134
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Learn more & take action:
Walk & Roll
Belfast
Are you interested in active transit by
boat?
Please take the Belfast Harbor Small
Boat Survey to share your input!
A new group “Walk & Roll Belfast” will
help citizens create more active
transit in our community.
SIGN UP to be added to the list!
walkandrollbelfast@gmail.com
Join the Statewide Climate
Ambassadors Program!
Online sessions starting March 9
through April 6 with weekly meetings
from 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. each Thursday.
Upcoming Events
Community Composting: Panel Discussion
Tuesday, February 28th, 2023 at at 6:30 pm on Zoom
Rx for a Chaotic Climate: Healthy Soils
Tuesday, March 28th, 2023 at at 6:30 pm on Zoom
Go to www.belfastlibrary.org/abcd-events
or call Brenda Harrington at 207-338-3884 ext. 30 to learn more.
Sign up to receive this newsletter by email: www.belfastlibrary.org/abcd-newsletter
The All of Belfast: Climate Dialogues (ABCD) project is capturing community perspectives - photographs, written stories,
videos and more - on the ABCD website. This collection will help increase our awareness of each others’ experiences, create
a point of reference for the future, and perhaps prompt us to take action now in preparation for the challenges ahead.
This project of the Belfast Free Library was made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
IMLS grant number: APP-246100-OLS-20. Read the proposal on the IMLS website.
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All of Belfast: Climate Dialogues ~ November/December 2022 Newsletter
Community Climate Conversation:
Modernizing Our Homes & Buildings
Maine municipalities are often faced with budget pressures and high operating costs
to maintain older municipal buildings. Energy efficiency is a great way for
municipalities to save energy and money, and improve comfort, safety, and
maintenance costs. Image credit: Efficiency Maine
You’re invited! Join us for a community climate conversation about
modernizing Belfast’s homes & buildings for energy efficiency and
cost savings and to help us reduce greenhouse gases.
Thursday, December 8th at 6:00 pm
Belfast Free Library in the Abbott Room (in person)
with Zoom option also available
Join us for this third in our series of community climate conversations that began on June 14th
seeking public input to develop a climate action plan for Belfast.
The discussion will invite public input on ideas for how Belfast homes, businesses and
municipal buildings (both existing and new) could be modernized for cost- and energy-savings.
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Maine Won’t Wait, the state’s 4-year climate action plan, notes that “Heating, cooling, and
lighting of buildings are responsible for almost one-third of Maine’s greenhouse gas emissions.
Maine can reduce greenhouse gases by modernizing our buildings to use cleaner energy, increase
energy efficiency, and utilize lower-carbon building materials.” According to Belfast’s 2019
Communitywide Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Transportation accounts for 49% of
emissions, and Residential Energy and Commercial Energy combined account for 50% of
emissions. (residential energy contributes 33% and commercial energy 17%.) Actions to reduce
emissions in all of these sectors will be a key part of a climate action plan for Belfast.
Our conversation will be grounded in the State of Maine’s goals and progress, as well as sharing
examples of actions that are currently being undertaken by several Maine communities. There
will be a brief summary of the actions Belfast is already taking to modernize buildings and
increase energy efficiency.
We will encourage audience participation to discuss ideas and actions property owners can
take to save money and energy in heating, cooling and lighting their homes and
businesses, and take part in planning what our community should do in coming years.
Co-sponsored by ABCD and the City of Belfast Climate Crisis Committee (CCC).
Go to www.belfastlibrary.org/abcd-events
or call Brenda Harrington at 207-338-3884 ext. 30 to learn more.
Take Efficiency Maine’s Residential Tour to
learn more about increasing energy
efficiency in homes:
www.efficiencymaine.com/residentialvirtual-tour
For additional inspiration, check out the
“Homeowner’s Guide to Greenhouse Gas
Emissions Reduction” video from our
friends at A Climate To Thrive on Mount
Desert Island:
www.aclimatetothrive.org/educationseries
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Rain Garden Follow-up
Our second Community Climate Conversation event on
October 18th, on the topic of “Creating Resilience to Big
Storms and Flooding”, attracted an engaged audience of
40 citizens. Attendees were energized by brainstorming
actions the community could take together - most
particularly the idea of creating a rain garden in a public
location in Belfast and using it as an educational model.
We are excited to have lined up a follow-up event about
rain gardens on February 2, 2023 (with snow date of
February 9), “Rain Gardens and Other Water
Management Techniques for Your Property” with
presenter Rebecca Jacobs of the Knox County Soil & Water
Conservation District. Mark your calendars for Thursday,
February 2 at 6:00 PM at the Belfast Free Library, and in the
meantime, let’s get excited to plan a community rain
garden!
Residential rain garden in Leominster,
Massachusetts. Photo credit: Environmental
Protection Agency
Happy Holidays from the ABCD team!
Wishing you a warm, safe and light holiday season.
Learn more about the ABCD project on the Library website, Facebook, and
Instagram, and by chatting with your librarians.
Sign up to receive this newsletter by email: www.belfastlibrary.org/abcd-newsletter
The All of Belfast: Climate Dialogues (ABCD) project is capturing community perspectives - photographs,
written stories, videos and more - on the ABCD website. This collection will help increase our awareness of
each others’ experiences, create a point of reference for the future, and perhaps prompt us to take action
now in preparation for the challenges ahead.
This project of the Belfast Free Library was made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and
Library Services. IMLS grant number: APP-246100-OLS-20. Read the proposal on the IMLS website.
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All of Belfast: Climate Dialogues ~ April 2022 Newsletter
Earth Day, Every Day
ABCD & the Belfast Free Library and many other organizations in Belfast have lined up an
inspiring series of events & activities during Earth Week 2022. Check out some of them below!
Detail from “Polar Ice”, Janice Kasper, 2013, 12 x 55 in, oil board
Upcoming Events
"The Art of Re-climation" Exhibit
April 5 - May 28, 2022 at the Belfast Free Library
"The Art of Re-Climation” is a curated art exhibit shown in
the Belfast Free Library's Kramer Gallery during April & May
2022. Pieces are also exhibited in an online digital
collection. In response to the current climate crisis, the
exhibit expresses climate change impacts, concerns and
hopes for a future of reclaiming the earth’s climate
balance. This exhibit, part of the All of Belfast: Climate
Dialogues (ABCD) project of the Belfast Free Library, was
curated by Belfast artist Mj Viano Crowe and Brenda
Harrington, program librarian at the Library.
Pictured: "Climate Reborn" by Mark Burnham
Go to www.belfastlibrary.org/abcd-events
to learn more.
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Imagining Our Climate Future: A Policy Perspective
Tuesday, April 12th at 6:30 pm on Zoom
Presented by the Belfast chapter of the Citizens Climate Lobby.
Peter Garrett, PhD will encourage attendees to participate in the
En-ROADS interactive Climate Solutions Simulator to explore the
impact of a range of climate-related policies, such as electrifying
transport, pricing carbon, and improving agricultural practices.
We'll see how each would impact energy prices, temperature,
and sea level rise. Belfast CCL member Katrina Matheson will
share an overview of CCL’s keystone policy initiative, the Energy
Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act (H.R. 2307), and some of the
reasons that it is the most aggressive solution to a transition
away from fossil fuels, as well as the most compassionate for
average Americans.
Pictured: Peter Garrett and Katrina Matheson
Go to www.belfastlibrary.org/abcd-events to learn more.
Celebrating Our Adventures on Earth:
Fireside Chat at Waterfall Arts with ABCD
Wednesday, April 20th, 7:00 - 8:00 PM at Waterfall Arts
256 High Street, Belfast
Waterfall Arts' Fireside Chat this month will be hosted by All
Belfast Climate Change Dialogues to help us celebrate
Earth Day—come share a tale of your adventures on Earth.
At last month's Fireside Chats, we shared sea stories with
Come Boating; this month, ABCD is asking you to share
your “earth stories.” Come share your tale of adventures or
misadventures on land: encounters with wildlife or wild
weather, camping or gardening gone well or awry, etc. How
have you been transformed by your adventures on
Earth?
Go to www.belfastlibrary.org/abcd-events to learn more.
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“Natasha Mayers: an Un-still Life” Free Film Screening
& Community Discussion
Saturday, April 23rd at 3:00 PM
The Colonial Theatre, Belfast
In celebration of Earth Day and climate activism, the producers
behind Natasha Mayers: an Un-Still Life have partnered with
Waterfall Arts to bring the film to midcoast audiences at the
Colonial Theatre in Belfast! Natasha Mayers: An Un-Still Life
presents an artist who has remained true to her passion for
over 50 years, the film follows Natasha as she takes on social,
economic and environmental justice issues with humor,
irreverence and a keen aesthetic that enlightens while it
entertains.
Go to www.belfastlibrary.org/abcd-events to learn more.
More Local Earth Week Events
Take & make “Earth Day Activity Kits” for elementary-school aged children, available from
April 12-20 at Carver Library in Searsport and Belfast Free Library. Courtesy of Belfast Bay
Watershed Coalition, Friends of Sears Island and Waterfall Arts.
Thursday, April 21 6:30pm - Troy Howard Middle School Seed Saving Program on ZOOM
Friday, April 22 3:00 & 6:00pm - Movie: “WALL-E” at the Colonial Theatre
Saturday, April 23 - 10:00am - 1:00pm Explore the Nature of Sears Island with Cloe Chunn at
Sears Island. Meet at the island gate on the causeway in Searsport. Bring water, lunch, rain gear,
binoculars.
Saturday, April 23 - 10:00am Yard Sign Making Workshop for climate awareness with
Natasha Mayers at Waterfall Arts
Sunday, April 24 11:00am Tour the Possibility Alliance + How to Make a Mushroom Log at 85
Edgecomb Road in Belfast
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Your feedback is needed for
Belfast's Climate Action Plan
In collaboration with the Belfast Climate Crisis Committee, we are asking
for feedback from the community on Belfast’s Climate Action Plan.
What are your ideas for how Belfast should deal with the effects of
climate change? Share your thoughts in our brief survey.
Here’s a sampling of responses we’ve received from citizens so far:
“We have to deal with bay/ocean rising and with changing weather patterns. Given more extreme
precipitation events, more consideration needs to be given to where we build and how we build…”
“Helping families afford to make changes to their heat sources would be helpful both to the climate
and the local economy.”
“We need a Climate Action Plan that is balanced between PROactive and REactive strategies. [...] Also,
we are in a crisis and need all hands on deck, working together. We have no time to duplicate efforts
or get gridlocked in differences. Let the science tell us what we need to do.”
Use your phone's camera to scan the QR code above, or go to
www.belfastlibrary.org/belfast-climate-action-plan-input to share your ideas!
Learn more about the ABCD project on the Library website, Facebook, and
Instagram, and by chatting with your librarians.
Sign up to receive this newsletter by email: www.belfastlibrary.org/abcd-newsletter
The All of Belfast: Climate Dialogues (ABCD) project is capturing community perspectives - photographs,
written stories, videos and more - on the ABCD website. This collection will help increase our awareness of
each others’ experiences, create a point of reference for the future, and perhaps prompt us to take action
now in preparation for the challenges ahead.
This project of the Belfast Free Library was made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and
Library Services. IMLS grant number: APP-246100-OLS-20. Read the proposal on the IMLS website.
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All of Belfast: Climate Dialogues ~ March 2022 Newsletter
Building Hope Together
“Hope is often misunderstood. People tend to think that it
is simply passive wishful thinking: I hope something will
happen but I’m not going to do anything about it. This is
indeed the opposite of real hope, which requires action
and engagement.”
~ Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for
Trying Times
Our team has noticed that our energy and enthusiasm for climate change communication rises
when we see ABCD as a part of a larger movement. We recently created a new web page about
Building Hope, to celebrate progress, hope, and the exciting climate change responses
underway: www.belfastlibrary.org/all-of-belfast-climate-dialogues/building-hope
We also wrote this page to help connect the dots between climate concern, climate hope, and
climate action. There are things each of us can work on today - from taking small personal
action to working towards big systemic change. We all matter. Together, we can - and are making a difference. And nothing feels as hopeful as taking action with others against climate
change.
Local collaboration:
Waldo County Climate Change Symposium
On January 22, ABCD and the Belfast Climate Crisis
Committee co-hosted 15 Waldo County
organizations who are each addressing climate change in their programming. The goal of the
symposium was to learn about each other’s work and set the stage for future collaboration and
action. A report on this meeting is available online at www.abcdbelfast.omeka.net.
Local action:
What should be in Belfast’s Climate Action Plan?
A key next step is collecting feedback from the community on Belfast’s Climate Action Plan.
What do you think are the most urgent issues and priorities? What are your ideas for how
Belfast should deal with the effects of climate change? Share your thoughts in our brief
survey at www.belfastlibrary.org/belfast-climate-action-plan-input.
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Upcoming Events
Deep Woods: How Climate Change Impacts Forests & How Forests Slow
Climate Change
Tuesday, March 22 at 6:30 PM on Zoom
Join Dr. Nicholas Fisichelli, President of Schoodic Institute at
Acadia National Park, and Mark Berry, Forest Program
Director for The Nature Conservancy in Maine, for a
presentation and discussion about the interactions
between Maine forests and climate change. The discussion
will cover the current and potential impacts of changing
climate on our forests, including shifts in species’
distributions and the disturbances that impact forests,
factors that help keep forests resilient, potential
management responses, and the role of forests in
capturing carbon from the atmosphere and storing it in
forests, soils, and forest products.
Go to www.belfastlibrary.org/abcd-events
to learn more and get the Zoom link.
Dr. Nicholas Fisichelli and Mark Berry
Learn more about the ABCD project on the Library website, Facebook, and
Instagram, and by chatting with your librarians.
Sign up to receive this newsletter by email: www.belfastlibrary.org/abcd-newsletter
The All of Belfast: Climate Dialogues (ABCD) project is capturing community perspectives - photographs,
written stories, videos and more - on the ABCD website. This collection will help increase our awareness of
each others’ experiences, create a point of reference for the future, and perhaps prompt us to take action
now in preparation for the challenges ahead.
This project of the Belfast Free Library was made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and
Library Services. IMLS grant number: APP-246100-OLS-20. Read the proposal on the IMLS website.
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All of Belfast: Climate Dialogues ~ February 2022 Newsletter
Has Your Livelihood or Business Been
Affected by Climate Change?
The ABCD team has been wondering how local people's
livelihoods and businesses are being
affected by climate change - and we recently learned just how challenging the impacts are for
our Waldo County farmer friends, and what they are doing to adapt.
Pictured above are the Waldo County farmers who took part in ABCD’s January 2022 virtual panel discussion,
“Growing Resilience: Local Farmers Respond to Climate Change.” Left to right: Bahner Farm, Dickey Hill Farm, and
Daisychain Farm.
Learning how our farmers are affected
On January 20th, ABCD hosted a wonderful and eye-opening panel discussion with the farmers
of Daisychain Farm, Dickey Hill Farm, and Bahner Farm. We invite you to check out the
excellent article from the Village Soup and read the summary at abcdbelfast.omeka.net.
You can watch the recording of our discussion with the farmers on the Belfast Free Library's
YouTube channel.
Has climate change affected YOUR job or business?
We invite you to share how climate change has affected YOUR business or livelihood:
> Take a quick survey: belfastlibrary.org/abcd-surveys, or
> Post your thoughts on the ABCD website, abcdbelfast.omeka.net
Sharing the concerns of our Belfast area community is so important: It can help us connect
with each other about the impacts we are experiencing. It helps us recognize that we aren’t
alone. It helps us figure out more ways to address these issues together.
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Upcoming Events
Maine Offshore Wind Initiative: How Maine is Charting Our Own Course
Tuesday, February 17 at 6:30 PM on Zoom
Stephanie Watson, Maine Offshore Wind Program Manager
in the Governor’s Energy Office, will provide an overview of
the Maine Offshore Wind Initiative established by Governor
Mills in 2019, with a focus on the Maine Offshore Wind
Roadmap. The goal of the Roadmap is to identify the best
course for Maine to maximize benefits of the rapidly
growing offshore wind sector to meet clean energy and
economic goals, while sustaining existing ocean users and
the environment. Hosted by Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition
and ABCD.
Go to www.belfastlibrary.org/abcd-events
to learn more and get the Zoom link.
Stephanie Watson, Maine Offshore
Wind Program Manager in the
Governor's Energy Office
Growing Food and Ornamentals in a Changing Climate
Tuesday, February 22 at 6:30 PM on Zoom
This presentation will give an overview of global climate
change, with special attention to effects in Maine and
the Northeast. Haley Jean and Sara Keleman, M.S.
students at the University of Maine School of Food and
Agriculture, will discuss local effects of global weather
patterns and the challenges they may pose to growing
vegetables, fruit, and flowers in our region. They will
suggest ways to mitigate some of the more confounding
challenges, and will showcase tools for learning about,
understanding, and addressing climate change impacts.
Hosted by Belfast Garden Club and ABCD.
Go to www.belfastlibrary.org/abcd-events
to learn more and get the Zoom link.
Haley Jean and Sara Keleman
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New Books About Climate Change
We invite you to check out the great new titles in the ABCD collection at the Library.
Learn more about the ABCD project on the Library website,
Facebook, and Instagram, and by chatting with your librarians.
www.belfastlibrary.org/all-of-belfast-climate-dialogues
Sign up to receive this newsletter by email:
www.belfastlibrary.org/abcd-newsletter
The All of Belfast: Climate Dialogues (ABCD) project is capturing community perspectives - photographs,
written stories, videos and more - on the ABCD website. This collection will help increase our awareness of
each others’ experiences, create a point of reference for the future, and perhaps prompt us to take action
now in preparation for the challenges ahead.
This project of the Belfast Free Library was made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and
Library Services. IMLS grant number: APP-246100-OLS-20. Read the proposal on the IMLS website.
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All of Belfast: Climate Dialogues ~ January 2022 Newsletter
Climate Hopes & Plans for the New Year
Reflections from the ABCD team for 2022
Over the past year, the All of Belfast: Climate
Dialogues project has broadened the local
conversation around climate change by offering
informative programs, curating web pages of
resources on climate change science and
communication, and expanding the library’s
offering of books. The ABCD collection of
personal climate stories, concerns, and
observations is growing.
Sarah Kirn, Misty Mallar, and Brenda Harrington of
the ABCD team
Why we started this project & what inspires us
The ABCD project was founded on the ideas so well expressed by our recent speaker Sue
Inches: that sharing our stories and talking about climate change and its effects and
challenges is the best way to come together, feel less alone, and plan action.
In the last year, our team has been inspired and excited by stories of progress and hope, and
the growing number of voices bringing attention and calling us to climate action, including:
Community planning, education & action by the Belfast Climate Crisis Committee, local
churches, non-profits & others
Belfast’s leadership in installing 3 tide gauges to monitor sea level rise
Art and music as a way to communicate about climate change - such as the upcoming
symphony ‘The Warming Sea’
Increased media focus, including Maine Public’s new series, "Climate Driven: A deep dive into
Maine's response, one county at a time."
Maine’s progress on our ambitious climate action plan - heat pumps, home weatherization,
electrifying municipal fleets & school buses, community solar, upgrading the electric grid,
and more.
Our team is excited to bring you stories of hope and action in 2022, from speakers to art
shows to new web content!
Learn more at www.belfastlibrary.org/all-of-belfast-climate-dialogues
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How you can get involved
We invite you to share what brings YOU hope with our whole community!
Things you can do:
> Take a quick survey on our website.
> Share this newsletter with a friend.
> Learn more at an ABCD Zoom event - see our upcoming events below.
> Tell us about your climate change concerns & hopes and see what your neighbors are sharing:
We look forward to hearing even more voices from the Belfast area community
in the coming year!
Upcoming Events
Growing Resilience: Local Farmers Respond to Climate Change
Thursday, January 20 at 6:30 PM on Zoom
Join us for a panel discussion with farmers from three
Waldo County Farms: Bahner Farm, Daisychain Farm and
Dickey Hill Farm. They will discuss how the effects of
climate change - including droughts, floods, pests and
extreme weather events - have challenged and changed
their farming practices, and answer your questions.
Go to www.belfastlibrary.org/abcd-events
to get the Zoom link.
Winter solstice greens harvesting, Dec. 21, 2021 ~
courtesy Dickey Hill Farm
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CALL FOR ART: “The Art of Re-Climation”
ABCD and the Belfast Free Library are calling for
submissions of art that responds to the current climate
crisis for an April/May 2022 exhibit in the Kramer Gallery
titled “The Art of Re-Climation.”
Submissions are due January 21, 2022.
Go to www.belfastlibrary.org/abcd-events
to learn more and submit your work.
”Mother Nature Holds Her Breath” by Mj Viano
Crowe
Maine’s Climate Future: The Role of Carbon Management
in Farms and Forests with Dr. Ivan Fernandez
This winter the Belfast Garden Club Evening Lecture Series,
co-sponsored by ABCD, will focus on the effects of the
Climate Crisis on our forests and farms.
Tuesday, January 25 at 6:30 PM on Zoom
Dr. Fernandez, from the Climate Change Institute at the
University of Maine, will summarize key findings from
Maine-focused climate assessments. He will talk about
how to enhance soil to capture carbon, to help reduce
atmospheric carbon levels. The presentation will also
summarize forest management recommendations from
the Governor’s Task Force on a Forest Carbon Program
in Maine.
Go to www.belfastlibrary.org/abcd-events
to get the Zoom link.
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Browntail Moth & Emerald Ash Borer in Waldo County
This event is co-sponsored by the Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition
and ABCD.
Tuesday, February 1 at 6:30 PM on Zoom
Tom Schmeelk, State Entomologist, will be back with us again
to discuss the acute browntail moth infestation in Belfast and
surroundings, how we can protect ourselves, and how we can
work as a community to curb this problem. He will also
discuss emerald ash borer and other forest invasive pests.
Go to www.belfastlibrary.org/abcd-events
to get the Zoom link.
Learn more about the ABCD project on the Library website,
Facebook, and Instagram, and by chatting with your librarians.
www.belfastlibrary.org/all-of-belfast-climate-dialogues/
Wishing you a Happy & Hopeful New Year
from ABCD and the Belfast Free Library!
The All of Belfast: Climate Dialogues (ABCD) project is capturing community perspectives - photographs,
written stories, videos and more - on the ABCD website. This collection will help increase our awareness of
each others’ experiences, create a point of reference for the future, and perhaps prompt us to take action
now in preparation for the challenges ahead.
This project of the Belfast Free Library was made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and
Library Services. IMLS grant number: APP-246100-OLS-20. Read the proposal on the IMLS website.
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All of Belfast: Climate Dialogues ~ December 2021 Newsletter
What are you doing to make your holidays
more climate-friendly?
All of Belfast: Climate Dialogues, a project of the Belfast Free
Library, invites you to share your personal story or
reflection on making this holiday season more climatefriendly. What does “climate-friendly” mean to you,
especially during this season? Are you considering changing
anything about your gift-giving and holiday celebration
habits? Perhaps more local buying, hand-made gifts, less
online shipping? Have you found some favorite delicious
Belfast-area food and beverages that everyone should try?
Belfast’s menorah lighting and Christmas tree.
Photo courtesy of Our Town Belfast.
ABCD Holiday Book Giveaway
Share your personal climate change story (or photo, or video) ~
and be entered into our drawing to win Susan B. Inches’ new book,
“Advocating for the Environment: How to Gather Your Power and Take
Action.”
Check out the ABCD website for stories from other local Belfast area
residents, and share your story online - OR email us and we’ll help
you submit your story. Website: https://abcdbelfast.omeka.net/
Email: abcd@belfastlibrary.org
The deadline is Tuesday, December 21st, and the winner will be
announced on Wednesday 12/22. Also, be sure to check out Sue's
recent inspirational ABCD presentation on the Library's YouTube
channel.
Are your holiday habits different now
because of climate change?
Take the 2-question survey on our website: https://belfastlibrary.org/abcd-surveys/
or fill one out at the Library.
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Shop Belfast for Climate-friendly Gifts, Food, & More!
We are excited to feature offerings from local Belfast businesses who have shared
their climate-friendly holiday ideas with ABCD.
AMBIANCE
In addition to our inventory of antiques and vintage home furnishings (buying an object that has
a previous life is a wonderful and interesting way to recycle!), AMBIANCE offers restoration and
repair of lamps. This is another terrific way of keeping useful items out of the landfill that, with a
little effort and care, can be brought back to perfect working condition and last for many more
years to come. ~ Brenda B., Owner
Belfast Clay Studio
Belfast Clay Studio is focused on keeping our practices environmentally sound— luckily, making
pottery doesn’t make much waste. Focusing on what can be made from clay as opposed to
other materials, like plastic for example, is a goal of ours. One good example is making your
own coffee mug to bring to the local coffee shops or the Co-op. Billions of disposable cups are
thrown away every year across the globe, and only 1 in 400 gets recycled properly. Come take a
class at the studio and learn how to make your own reusable mug! ~ Cory U., Owner
Belfast Co-op
The Belfast Co-op offers local products including fruit, veggies, cheese, meat, herbs, and maple
syrup. One of the most important ways buying local food helps the environment is by reducing
the miles that food travels (which cuts back on fuel consumption, air pollution, refrigeration and
packing facilities). You might consider gifting a re-usable plastic water bottle, to help cut back on
single-use plastics. And Co-op gift cards are a wonderful gift to support local buying!
~ Alessandra M., Outreach Coordinator
Belfast Fiberarts
Belfast Fiberarts represents 28 Maine Fiber Artists, most live and work in Waldo County. Many
of our artists up-cycle materials, keeping them out of the waste stream. Our basket maker
collects invasive plant materials growing on the rail trail to use as ribs for her baskets. Other
artists use wool fiber grown on small farms in Maine. Belfast Fiberarts Weaving Studio and
Maker Space provides shared space, equipment, and education for Community members to
mend, or create their own clothing instead of buying it from corporations using
international sources of petroleum products. Our weavers use only natural and organic fibers;
no micro plastic pollution will ever enter the bay from our products. ~ Alice S., owner
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City Drawers & Man on Main
City Drawers and Man on Main provide climate-minded services and lasting goods. Some of our
climate-friendly offerings include eco-friendly dry-cleaning; warm fashions knit with natural and
recycled materials; men’s and women’s basics spun from bamboo, which is renewable, fastgrowing, and water-conserving; and fine lingerie-care made with plant-derived, sustainable
ingredients. ~ Dee B., Owner
Colonial Theatre
All the Colonial Theatre movies are recycled every day since we only use digitalized art! And gift
certificates, which can be ordered online, are a great climate-friendly holiday gift. ~ Mike H.,
Owner
The Green Store
The production of plastic releases hundreds of tons of carbon into the atmosphere, plus plastic
doesn’t ever go away! The Green Store offers so many alternatives, from Beeswrap instead of
plastic wrap; shampoo and conditioner bars instead of a plastic bottle; silicone food storage
bags; laundry detergent sheets that come in a cardboard envelope; lip balm and deodorant in a
cardboard tube; and so many reusable water and lunch containers and bamboo utensils.
~ Ellie D., Owner
Heavenly Yarns
At Heavenly Yarns, we offer a range of yarns for everyone's budget: although every yarn has
some percentage of natural fibers, which eventually biodegrades. We sell - and are passionate
about - the diversity of fleeces grown in Maine and processed into yarn in Maine, which is great
for the carbon footprint. ~ Helen S., Owner
The Moody Dog
I am the owner of The Moody Dog food truck, food cart and The Moody Dog Mercantile. I source
all of my meats from within our state borders to cut down on our carbon footprint, as well as to
support local farmers. We also use green packaging for our to go foods. We sell hand made
condiments made from wild foraged and locally sourced produce which is canned and make
excellent holiday gifts. We will be offering gift baskets that could include our goods and other
locally produced items such as Nomad Pasta Company pasta, Graze Maine juice and smoothies,
Maine Family Farms meats. And more. Gift Certificates as well, which make excellent stocking
stuffers. ~ Raymelle M., Chef/Owner
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Nautilus Seafood & Grill
Nautilus works with many local purveyors to offer fresh Maine seafood, produce, and foraged
foods like wild mushrooms. We get our crab meat and lobsters from Kirby's Lobster Shack and
Young's Lobster Pound; rope-grown mussels from Pemaquid Mussel Farms; and produce from
Cross Patch Farms and other local farmers. We are doing our best in small ways to be more
climate-friendly, like using compostable straws and ditching single-use plastic ketchup bottles.
Gift certificates are a great gift for your local friends and family - and beginning in December,
you can buy them online! ~ Roz P., Owner
Waterfall Arts
Waterfall Arts offers gift certificates all year round for experiences rather than items you need
to package and ship. Try Handmade Holiday Card Printing with Gelatin Plates in our solvent-free
printmaking studio, the Kennedy Press. In addition, we’re delighted this year to be able to offer
gift certificates for a glassblowing experience in the brand-new Waterfall Arts Glassworks, which
is run almost entirely on electricity and vegetable oil rather than fossil fuels, so it’s both climate
friendly and a green experience! ~ Amy T., Program Director
Yo Mamma’s
Yo Mamma's offers several recycled gifts including: bags from plastic bottles (a part of those
proceeds go towards Doctors Without Borders), beautiful handmade recycled metal animal
figures and rugs woven from recycled plastic straws. ~ Beverly M., Owner
Wishing you happy & healthy holidays
from ABCD and the Belfast Free Library!
The All of Belfast: Climate Dialogues (ABCD) project is capturing community perspectives - photographs,
written stories, videos and more - on the ABCD website. This collection will help increase our awareness of
each others’ experiences, create a point of reference for the future, and perhaps prompt us to take action
now in preparation for the challenges ahead.
This project of the Belfast Free Library was made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and
Library Services. IMLS grant number: APP-246100-OLS-20. Read the proposal on the IMLS website.
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October 8, 2021 at the Belfast waterfront
If you missed the recent unveiling of Belfast's 3 tide gauges and the High
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there are so many amazing things about these projects!
Did you know Belfast is LEADING. THE. PLANET. in collecting hyperlocalized tide data with really new technology... and we are at the front
lines of community planning for sea level rise?
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and the kudos to Belfast for helping create what is "evidently the most
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<p><span><em>Some issues of the ABCD newsletter have printable versions (see PDF files, above). All newsletters are available via the links below:<br /><br /></em><a href="https://mailchi.mp/c63ebf53b8ba/all-of-belfast-climate-dialogues-august-2023?e=e152038d88" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><b>Stay in Touch - Keep Talking About It - and Together, Let’s Turn Community Conversations into Action ~ August 2023 Newsletter</b></a><em><br />In this final issue:</em> Join us for ABCD’s final celebration! Grant funding is ending but the Library continues to support climate action & education.<br /><br /><a href="https://mailchi.mp/b04ec2b100e9/all-of-belfast-climate-dialogues-august-2023-events?e=e152038d88" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>Newsflash ~ Final ABCD Events in August ~ August 2023 Newsletter</strong></a><em><strong><br /></strong>In this issue: </em>Join us for ABCD final events! ABCD grant funding is coming to a close but the Library continues to support climate action & education.<br /><strong><br /><a href="https://mailchi.mp/38f2a87d435b/all-of-belfast-climate-dialogues-july-2023?e=e152038d88" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">“Community Resilience for the Climate Emergency”, Community Compost & Belfast Climate Solution Plans ~ July 2023 Newsletter</a><br /><br /></strong><em>In this issue: </em>Planning is under way for community composting in Belfast; NASA climate scientist and award-winning author Dr. Peter Kalmus speaking on "<a href="https://belfastlibrary.org/abcd-events/">Community Resilience for the Climate Emergency</a>" (July 19th at the Library and on Zoom); <a href="https://www.cityofbelfast.org/DocumentCenter/View/5398/City-of-Belfast-Comprehensive-Plan---Draft-for-Public-Review-June-2023?bidId=" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Draft Comprehensive Plan Update</a> for Belfast includes climate solutions strategies; <a href="https://belfastlibrary.org/belfast-climate-action-plan-input/">Belfast is applying for grant to install heat pumps</a>in City-owned buildings... and more!<br /><strong><br /><br /><a href="https://mailchi.mp/c4804a467952/all-of-belfast-climate-dialogues-june-2023?e=e152038d88" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Climate Action Plan Delivered to City Council; Belfast Application for Community Resilience Partnership ~ June 2023 Newsletter</a><br /></strong></span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight:400;">In this issue: </span></i><span style="font-weight:400;">Belfast City Council <a href="https://abcdbelfast.omeka.net/items/show/151">actions re: Climate Action Plan</a>; a free class on being a city councilor; & report on <a href="https://abcdbelfast.omeka.net/items/show/150">Sustainable Communities day</a>.</span></p>
<p><span><strong><br /><a href="https://mailchi.mp/f20f863a8bb2/all-of-belfast-climate-dialogues-may-2023" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Sustainable Communities Day on June 1st ~ May 2023 Newsletter</a><br /></strong></span><em>In this issue:</em><span> </span><span>Sustainable Communities Day June 1st with Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition; <a href="https://www.maine.gov/climateplan/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mainer's Guide to Climate Incentives</a>; <a href="https://www.pollinator.org/pollinator-week" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Pollinator Week</a> June 19-25; and A Climate To Thrive's </span><a href="https://www.aclimatetothrive.org/interconnect" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">statewide conference June 22nd on transforming Maine’s energy system for a livable future</a>.</p>
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<p><strong><br /><a href="https://mailchi.mp/6f4c0e93d392/all-of-belfast-climate-dialogues-april-2023?e=e152038d88" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Celebrating Earth Month ~ April 2023 Newsletter</a></strong></p>
<p><em>In this Earth Month 2023 edition: </em>Lots to talk about! Updates on what ABCD and the Climate Crisis Committee have been up to; ways we can all help create more sustainable landscapes; a sampling of wonderful local Earth Day & Earth Month Events; and a question: <em>What does our community need to move forward on climate action planning?</em></p>
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<p><span><strong><a href="https://mailchi.mp/962914a43bc5/all-of-belfast-climate-dialogues-february2023?e=e152038d88" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Updates from “Future of Transportation in Belfast & Waldo County” Event ~ February 2023 Newsletter</a><br /></strong></span><i><span>In this issue: </span></i><span>Takeaways & City updates from our exciting “Future of Transportation” conversation; upcoming events including Community Composting.</span></p>
<p><span>A new group called “</span><b>Walk & Roll Belfast</b><span>” is also being created to help citizens band together to create more active transit in our community! SIGN UP to learn more - send your email address to <a href="mailto:walkandrollbelfast@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">walkandrollbelfast@gmail.com</a> to be added to the email list!</span></p>
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<div class="siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget"><br /><p><strong><a href="https://mailchi.mp/2c18bfa1a6e1/all-of-belfast-climate-dialogues-january-2023?e=e152038d88" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Future of Transportation in Waldo County ~ January 2023 Newsletter</a></strong><br /><i><span>In this issue: </span></i><span>Come attend a Community Climate Conversation on February 9th, about reducing greenhouse gases from transportation in Waldo County. Check out some great resources and actions discussed at our December "Modernizing Our Homes & Buildings" discussion. Mark your calendars for lots of other great events coming up including the Belfast Garden Club's winter lecture series.</span></p>
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<div class="siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget"><br /><p><strong><a href="https://mailchi.mp/8df18590e729/all-of-belfast-climate-dialogues-september-2022?e=e152038d88" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Community Climate Conversations: Help Belfast Be Resilient to Stormwater Flooding ~ September 2022 Newsletter</a></strong><br /><em>In this issue:<span> </span></em>An invitation to give input on stormwater impacts in Belfast on Tuesday, October 18th at 6:00 PM [rescheduled from the 11th]; re-cap of electric vehicles at the Harbor Fest; & lots of September events!</p>
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<div class="siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget"><br /><p><strong><a href="https://mailchi.mp/adca5af1f133/all-of-belfast-climate-dialogues-august-2022?e=e152038d88" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Photo Contest Winners & A Moment for Good News ~ August 2022 Newsletter</a></strong><br /><em>In this issue:</em><span> </span>ANNOUNCING the winners of the "<a href="https://gmail.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e788e938dfe460bc753dde658&id=457e62daab&e=e152038d88" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Celebrating Belfast ~ Places & Play! All Of Belfast: Climate Dialogues 2022 Photo Contest</a>"; also some good news and resources around climate change.</p>
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<div class="siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget"><br /><p><strong><a href="https://mailchi.mp/0e23d4a0c607/all-of-belfast-climate-dialogues-july-2022" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">An Inspiring Night of Community Input to Belfast's Climate Action Plan ~ July 2022 Newsletter</a></strong><br /><em>In this issue:<span> </span></em>Check out the inspiring community input from the June 14 public meeting on Belfast's Climate Action Plan; upcoming events; and LAST CALL for the<span> </span><a href="https://belfastlibrary.org/abcd-photo-contest/">ABCD Photo Contest</a><span> </span>(deadline July 15th)! We also reflect on last week's Supreme Court decision limiting the EPA's authority; and share hopeful notes from Maine's June 17<span> </span><a href="https://abcdbelfast.omeka.net/items/show/115">"Communities Leading on Climate" conference</a>.</p>
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<div class="siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget"><br /><p><strong><a href="https://mailchi.mp/f6d4f0eb3253/all-of-belfast-climate-dialogues-june-2022" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Celebrating Belfast ~ Places & Play!<em><span> </span>All of Belfast: Climate Dialogues</em><span> </span>2022 Photo Contest ~ June 2022 Newsletter</a></strong><br /><em>In this issue:<span> </span></em>Your input is needed on Belfast's draft<span> </span><a href="https://belfastlibrary.org/belfast-climate-action-plan-input/">Climate Action Plan</a>! Community discussion on Tuesday, June 14th at 6:00 PM in the Abbott Room at the Libary (also available on Zoom). Also announcing the ABCD<span> </span><a href="https://belfastlibrary.org/abcd-photo-contest/">Photo Contest</a><span> </span>~ deadline July 15th. Share your photo of the things you love most about Belfast and our corner of Maine… What activities and places bring you joy and gratitude?</p>
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<div class="siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget"><br /><p><strong><a href="https://mailchi.mp/63c8df3d1085/all-of-belfast-climate-dialogues-may-2022" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Looking Back to See Ahead ~ May 2022 Newsletter</a></strong><br /><em>In this issue:<span> </span></em>This month, ABCD has 2 programs that examine historic and current climate change here in the Belfast area and in Maine - including a May 10th presentation by Belfastian and doctoral candidate at Georgetown University, Emma Moesswilde (pictured), "Living With Thin Ice: Past Perspectives on Climate Change in Belfast, Maine."</p>
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<div class="siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget"><br /><p><strong><a href="https://mailchi.mp/630a21b9a0d2/all-of-belfast-climate-dialogues-march-2022?e=e152038d88" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Earth Day, Every Day ~ April 2022 Newsletter</a></strong><br /><em>In this Earth Day / Earth Week-themed issue:<span> </span></em>Check out the series of inspiring events and activities in and around Belfast during Earth Week 2022, and<span> </span><a href="https://belfastlibrary.org/belfast-climate-action-plan-input/">give your input to the Belfast Climate Action Plan</a>!</p>
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<p><strong><a href="https://mailchi.mp/74731764dc37/all-of-belfast-climate-dialogues-march-2022-news" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Building Hope Together ~ March 2022 Newsletter</a></strong><br /><em>In this hope-themed issue:<span> </span></em>Learn about the recent Waldo County Climate Change Symposium, register for our upcoming event "Deep Woods: How Climate Change Impacts Forests & How Forests Slow Climate Change", and <a href="https://belfastlibrary.org/belfast-climate-action-plan-input/">give your input to the Belfast Climate Action Plan</a>!</p>
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<p><strong><a href="https://mailchi.mp/7cb78cf220c6/all-of-belfast-climate-dialogues-february-2022-news-8818006?e=e152038d88" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Has Your Livelihood or Business Been Affected by Climate Change? ~ February 2022 Newsletter</a></strong><br /><em>In this issue:<span> </span></em>Summary of our recent farmer panel discussion; upcoming events; new books in the Library's climate change collection; and an invitation to tell us how your business or job is affected by climate change, and how you are adapting.</p>
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<div>Wishing you a Happy and Hopeful New Year, from the ABCD team and Belfast Free Library!</div>
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<div class="siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget"><br /><p><strong><a href="https://mailchi.mp/ecb8dbd563f2/all-of-belfast-climate-dialogues-october-2021-news-5224334?e=e152038d88" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">A Climate-friendly Holiday Season ~ December 2021 Newsletter</a></strong><br /><em>In this issue:<span> </span></em>We are excited to feature offerings from local Belfast businesses who have shared their climate-friendly holiday ideas with ABCD. Enter our holiday book giveaway! Sign up for our Tuesday 11/30 online event with author Sue Inches,<span> </span><em>“Finding Hope in the Face of Climate Change.”</em><span> </span>We are also putting out a Call for Art for an upcoming spring Library exhibit, "The Art of Re-Climation."</p>
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<p>(Note that you can watch past events anytime on the<span> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4CxlaYUpHJzSh2CRTrclWYTg6lnfzVCN" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Library's YouTube ABCD playlist</a>!)</p>
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All of Belfast: Climate Dialogues – Belfast Free Library
All Of Belfast: Climate Dialogues
Welcome to All of Belfast: Climate Dialogues (ABCD), a community memory project funded by the
Institute for Museum and Library Services. Our goal is to collect, document, share and save Belfast area
residents’ observations, perspectives, concerns and hopes about climate change impacts in our region at
this critical time. This collection will increase awareness among residents of each others’ experiences, and
serve as a benchmark for future reference - and perhaps as a catalyst for taking action now.
To accomplish this, the library will host a series of programs on climate change with follow up sessions with
time for reflection and conversation. Participants will be invited to share their climate change observations in
words, pictures or video to our digital archive. See below for the schedule of events, how to contribute to
this project and a link to informative webpages about climate change, dialogue and what Belfast is doing to
respond. Get involved by taking a short survey, and stay informed by signing up for the monthly ABCD
newsletter.
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Community Resilience for the Climate Emergency
Wednesday, July 19th, 2023 at 6:00 PM at Belfast Free Library (with Zoom option)
The Peace & Social Justice Forum/Waldo County, in coordination with ABCD and Possibility
Alliance, will host Dr. Peter Kalmus, award winning author and climate scientist from NASA’s Jet
Propulsion Lab. He has said that “Global Warming is happening with a rapidity that leaves me
speechless” and is dismayed that our government is not placing this existential threat at the center
of the challenges that we are facing. Moving beyond fossil fuels and how we as individuals can
work toward this goal, while living fulfilled lives is the question he and his family have been
grappling with. Dr. Kalmus will share his personal journey in this essential work, and will discuss
how we can respond as individuals locally, and in collective ways to move us toward a fossil free
future. His award winning book is titled “Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate
Revolution.”
Learn more and view all ABCD events
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Share Your Story
Calling all Belfast area residents! How is climate change impacting you, your family, and our
community? Concerned about extreme heat days? Worried about sea level rise? Afraid of ticks and
brown tail moths? Confused about community solar? Curious about heat pumps? Wondering about
impacts for farmers, fishermen, foresters, or others?
We invite you to share YOUR concerns, observations, and hopes about the impacts of climate change
in our region .Share your story on the ABCD site here.
Click here to see what others are saying.
Have your voice heard- take a quick survey and tell us what climate change issues are important to
you.
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Belfast is Responding to Climate Change
The City of Belfast has been proactive about reducing its carbon footprint, investigating potential
impacts of climate change such as sea level rise, and mitigating potential impact. Learn more about
what our city has done to date.
Why Talk About Climate Change?
Climate change requires humans to respond collectively: to create policy, to change practices;
"Individuals, communities, societies act on climate change through communication with others”
Explore more here
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Climate Change 101
There is broad agreement in the scientific community that climate change is real, happening now,
and that it poses risk to life as we know it. Explore our collection of resources -- from basics to
advanced -- to learn more.
New Books about Climate Change
This project was made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library
Services. IMLS grant number: APP-246100-OLS-20
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About ABCD
All of Belfast: Climate Dialogues
project origins and overview
In 2020, the Belfast Free Library won a grant from the Institute for
Museum and Library Services for the All of Belfast: Climate Dialogues, a
Community Memory project. The Library won this grant to facilitate
conversations with a broader cross-section of the Belfast community in
ongoing discussions about climate change to ensure that all voices and views
are heard. Using best practices from citizen science, climate change
communications, and civic engagement, the project was envisioned to
document, share, and archive diverse ideas, perspectives, priorities, and
aspirations on climate change from Belfast area citizens.
The project goals are to:
Engage broad cross-section of Belfast in talking about climate;
Curate high-quality education materials regarding climate change;
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Develop and support programming to normalize conversation on
climate;
Archive full range of Belfast area residents’ ideas and priorities
regarding climate change.
When we applied for the IMLS Community Memory grant in November of
2019, the White House had disallowed federal employees from using the
phrase “climate change.” In early 2021 when we began piloting programs
with residents, the national conversation had been transformed by a new
administration ready to talk about climate change. The more time that
passes, the more frequently we hear “I don’t want to talk about this, I want
to take action!” We’ve also come to appreciate how good action can feel in
these anxious times. We continue to look for ways that the Library can
support, amplify, and inspire climate ACTION.
One of the goals of the IMLS project was to increase the Belfast Free
Library’s visibility as a gathering place and host conversations about the
challenges facing our community. The pandemic made it clear that the
Library is the place that Belfast turns to for support. When in-person events
ceased in 2020, the majority of organizations who wanted to move events
online approached the Library and program librarian Brenda Harrington for
help in doing so.
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Browntail moth presentation in collaboration with
Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition.
Presentation on climate change and Maine's forests,
co-sponsored with the Belfast Garden Club.
Collaboration with Waterfall Arts in their "Fireside
Chat" series, celebrating Earth Week 2022.
COVID pivots and project evolution
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The ABCD project began in the fall of 2020, mere months into the
COVID-19 pandemic. Our plans for facilitating cozy conversations among
Belfast residents to help each other learn how to be comfortable sharing and
listening to each others’ perspectives, priorities, and observations of climate
change and its impacts were no longer safe. We needed a new approach. We
experimented with convening groups for paired conversations on Zoom and
learned important lessons (e.g., Zoom is not an enticing venue for talking
about challenging, uncomfortable topics with people one hardly knows or
has never met!).
So, we shifted gears again. We launched new webpages with information
about climate change and the value of talking about climate change. We created
an online collection space where we invite and share Belfast area residents to
post writing, letters, artwork, poems, pictures - anything that captures their
observations, fears, hopes, or priorities. We launched an event series and cohosted events with Belfast organizations addressing climate change (spoiler
- there are a lot of them!).
In January of 2022, we teamed up with Belfast’s Climate Crisis Committee
to host the Waldo County Climate Symposium. The goal of the symposium
was to launch collaboration and coordination among the active parties to get
more mileage from each move. Fifteen Waldo County organizations with
climate change-related activities attended the symposium. Each gave a 5minute presentation about who they are, their present activities related to
climate change, and their future plans. A summary of each presentation is
available in the symposium report in the ABCD Collection. The symposium
ended with an enthusiastic call for continued conversation.
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Talking with Belfast Farmers' Market about the
ABCD project
Unveiling of Belfast's new tide gauges and high
water mark signs, 2021
Selections from the ABCD book collection at the
Belfast Free Libary
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Insights to action
Over the months of this project, we have had several “ah-ha!” moments that
have changed our thinking, approach, and planning. Here are some of the
observations we have had that continue to shape the ABCD program, and
our own actions.
#1: Even our project team struggles to find hope in the crisis of climate
change. We have been buoyed by authors and leaders like Dr. Katharine
Hayhoe who focus on amplifying the progress that is being made. We have
noticed that our energy and enthusiasm rises when we discover promising
actions in our state or connect with other organizations committed to
advocacy and action. Working together is the best antidote we’ve found
to feeling overwhelmed. We are working on ideas to engage people in our
community around the climate wins there are, rather than just bringing
attention to the existential crisis we face. We are hopeful that the more
optimistic approach that has raised our spirits will raise participation in
ABCD events and in our online ABCD collection.
#2: A community’s resilience -- its ability to flex with and recover from
challenge -- is only as strong as the web of connections that hold it
together. Sure, we need a robust power grid and strong critical
infrastructure like sewage treatment plants supported by backup systems things that the government needs to address. But when challenge arrives - a
downed tree, a flooded basement, temporary or permanent loss of income what is essential for human wellbeing is strong ties to people ready to
give and receive, to offer support, cook a meal, and lend a hand or an ear.
We heard this from the farmers on our January 20, 2022 Growing
Resilience: Local Farmers Respond to Climate Change panel who appreciated
their network of peers and elders in the farming community. We heard this
in the founding story of Waldo County Bounty shared in the Waldo County
Climate Change Symposium. And we witnessed it in the aftermath of the fire
at the Penobscot McCrum potato processing facility in early 2022.
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#3: We are inspired by the Climate to Thrive organization on nearby Mount
Desert Island. After more than a year of work instigating conversation that
we hope leads to action, we recognize the need for dedicated and paid
leadership to driving and guiding effective change. We will be exploring
how to launch such an effort and at what scale (Belfast? Waldo County?
Coastal Communities of Penobscot Bay?). If you are interested in this idea,
please contact us at abcd@belfastlibrary.org.
Project team
The Belfast Free Library is dedicated to helping individuals of all ages
pursue independent learning by providing access to timely and useful
information in all formats. The library was established in 1887 with funds
from two Belfast residents with a vision of public learning. Read more
about the library's history.
Brenda Harrington is an outdoor enthusiast who loves to hike, ski and ride
her bike. She enjoys family outings with her two grown children. Brenda
moved to Waldo County in the late 1980’s and has been the Belfast Free
Library’s Adult Programming Librarian since 2003.
Sarah Kirn first came to Maine as a teenage student on a Hurricane Island
Outward Bound School sailing course. She stays, at least in part, for the
light - in particular, that golden light that sometimes breaks through, or
under, a dark grey storm cloud and makes the coastal evergreens glow - and
for her network of friends and colleagues around the state. She also loves
the seasons - the snap of a winter morning, the miracle of spring, the ease
of summer warmth, and the bug-free days of fall.
Misty Mallar grew up in Maine and has lived in Belfast since 2011. She
enjoys her job hosting at Nautilus Seafood & Grill restaurant, with its
unique oceanfront beauty in all seasons. And, she loves the community
connections and friendships she has formed there with co-workers and
locals. With her husband, she owns Seaberry Hill Farm, a small home-based
plant nursery.
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All of Belfast: Climate Dialogues (ABCD) is a project of the Belfast Free
Library. This project was made possible by a grant from the Institute of
Museum and Library Services. IMLS grant number: APP-246100-OLS-20.
Read the proposal on the IMLS website (scroll down to find Belfast Free
Library).
All of Belfast: Climate Dialogues (ABCD) is a member of Maine
Contemporary Archives. Supported with Maine State Library’s Cares ActLSTA funds received from the Institute of Museum and Library Services
(IMLS).
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Telephone: (207) 338-3884
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What Should Be In Belfast’s
Climate Action Plan?
The City of Belfast's Climate Crisis Committee, with support from ABCD, is
leading in the development of a climate action plan for Belfast. The purpose
of a climate action plan is to document citizens’ values and priorities to
guide decisions, and lay out a timeline of actions to increase our
community’s resilience.
We have invited community input during our series of “Community
Climate Conversations,” covering topics such as transportation, land use,
energy efficiency in homes and buildings, flooding, and food insecurity. See
below for links to recordings and summaries of these events.
The Final Draft of the Climate Action Plan submitted to the
Belfast City Council
On June 6, 2023 the Climate Crisis Committee submitted the final draft of
the Climate Action Plan.
The plan will be discussed at the June 20th City Council Meeting.
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Draft Climate Action Plan presented to Belfast City Council
On April 4th, 2023, the Belfast Climate Crisis Committee presented a first
draft Climate Action Plan (CAP) to the City Council. This draft does not yet
include the list of potential Future Actions needed to implement the plan.
The CCC has that list drafted however, and is in the process of refining it.
These potential actions will need to be reviewed and prioritized with the
City Council, perhaps in a work session format.
The CAP, along with enrollment in the Community Resilience Partnership,
will enable Belfast to be in a strong position to be eligible for the State and
Federal money that may become available to deal with Climate Change.
Reports and Resources related to Climate Action Planning in
Maine:
Just released! The NEW! Maine Won't Wait, Year Two Progress Report
December 1, 2022 and the new Maine Won't Wait Climate Dashboard
Maine Won't Wait: A Four Year Plan for Climate Action, December 2020.
Maine Climate Council
Maine Won't Wait One-Year Progress Report, December 1, 2021
Maine Won't Wait: Inspiring Climate Action for Maine: resources from the
Maine Climate Council
Examples of Climate Action Plans from other towns:
Town of Mount Desert Climate Action Plan, and Implementation Guide.
York, Maine Climate Action Plan
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Past "Community Climate
Conversations" events
The Future of Transportation in Belfast &
Waldo County
Thursday, February 9th, 2022 at
6:30 PM
Belfast Free Library in the
Abbott Room (in person)
with Zoom option also available
Through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, a $13.3M
grant will help 13 Maine school districts buy 34
electric-vehicle school buses this year. Searsport
RSU 20 received an award for two EV school buses
($790,000). Credit: NewsCenter Maine
Watch the recording here and see
the full summary including
speaker slides and highlights
from the community discussion.
Did you know transportation accounts for 49% of greenhouse gas
emissions, both in Belfast and statewide? Join us for this program in our
series of community climate conversations that began on June 14th, 2022
seeking public input to develop a climate action plan for Belfast.
Electric vehicle use, transitioning buses and municipal fleets, reducing
vehicle miles traveled through increased access to broadband, public transit,
and opportunities to bike and walk… these are all part of Maine’s strategy to
reduce transportation emissions.
What about Belfast and Waldo County? Come learn about what has already
been accomplished and what opportunities are available, hear what others
are doing, and share your questions, ideas, and priorities.
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Co-sponsored by ABCD and the City of Belfast Climate Crisis Committee
(CCC).
Modernizing Our Homes & Buildings
Thursday, December 8th, 2022 at 6:00 pm
Belfast Free Library in the Abbott Room (in person)
with Zoom option also available
View the recording of this event and read a full summary of presentations & the
community discussion here
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Resources for "Modernizing Our Homes & Buildings" 12/8/22
community meeting:
Community Input form for attendees on Zoom
What Belfast is Doing With Buildings_handout 12-8-22
Maine municipalities are often
faced with budget pressures and
high operating costs to maintain
older municipal buildings. Energy
efficiency is a great way for
municipalities to save energy and
money, and improve comfort,
safety, and maintenance costs.
Image credit: Efficiency MaineThursday, December 8th the public is invited
to a community climate conversation about modernizing Belfast’s homes &
buildings for energy efficiency and cost savings and to help us reduce
greenhouse gasses.
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According to Maine Won’t Wait, the state’s 4-year climate action plan,
“Heating, cooling, and lighting of buildings are responsible for almost onethird of Maine’s greenhouse gas emissions. Maine can reduce greenhouse
gasses by modernizing our buildings to use cleaner energy, increase energy
efficiency, and utilize lower-carbon building materials.”
With two introductory speakers (see below), we will ground our
conversation in the State of Maine’s goals and progress, as well as sharing
examples of actions that are currently being undertaken by several Maine
communities. We’ll present a brief summary of the actions Belfast is already
taking to modernize buildings and increase energy efficiency. We will
encourage audience participation to discuss ideas and actions property
owners can take to save money and energy in heating, cooling and lighting
their homes and businesses, and take part in planning what our community
should do in coming years.
The event, co-sponsored by All of Belfast Climate Dialogues (ABCD), a
project of the Belfast Free Library and the City of Belfast Climate Crisis
Committee (CCC) will take place in the Abbott Room of the Library. A
hybrid zoom option will be made available also (check back shortly for the
link to register).
Ross Anthony, the Buildings and Energy
Efficiency Analyst for the Maine Governor’s
Energy Office, will provide an update on the
energy landscape in Maine as it relates to
buildings. He will share progress on the state's
climate action plan, Maine Won't Wait;
upcoming opportunities with the Bipartisan
Ross Anthony, Buildings and
Energy Efficiency Analyst for the
Maine Governor’s Energy Office
Infrastructure Act and IRA Inflation Reduction
Act; and ways for communities to get involved.
Ross Anthony serves as the Buildings and
Energy Efficiency Analyst for the Maine Governor’s Energy Office. In his
previous role, Ross was a consultant for energy industry projects for
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commercial, industrial, and residential energy efficiency and market
assessments, demand side management, climate change mitigation, and
energy savings potential at the state and federal level for public and private
clients. Ross was born and raised in Evansville, IN and holds a BSc in
economics from the University of Evansville (Evansville, IN) and a MSc in
resource economics and policy from the University of Maine (Orono, ME).
Naomi Albert, Project Manager of the soonto-be-launched (January 2023)
Comprehensive Building Solutions Program
at A Climate To Thrive, Mount Desert, will
speak about how ACTT saw the community
need for a program to first educate about the
benefits of an efficient, clean energy home and,
Naomi Albert, Project Manager,
Comprehensive Building Solutions
Program at A Climate To Thrive,
Mount Desert
second to provide guidance and support for a
comprehensive approach to weatherization,
heat pumps, solar, and other energy saving
building upgrades.
Naomi has a Bachelor of Science in Natural Resource Planning. She is
passionate about local climate action and has spent the past several years
working on climate planning in California.
Building Resilience to Big Storms & Flooding
Tuesday, October 18th at 6:00 pm
Belfast Free Library in the Abbott Room (in person)
with Zoom option also available
We had 40 engaged citizens attend this event in October. Thank you to all
who attended and shared their thoughts! Check out the recording of the
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event here, read a summary and
view the meeting handouts.
--After a short presentation on the
impacts of stormwater, our
discussion will focus on actions
October 31, 2021 stormwater erosion on Poors Mills
Road, Belfast. Photo credit: Fred Bowers.
property owners can take today,
actions we can take together in
the coming year or two, and more
significant infrastructure improvements that we want to make happen in
the future.
Desired outcomes for this meeting:
Understand how more extreme precipitation events will impact us.
Learn about WHERE the problem areas are in our city.
Identify creative solutions by community organizations, businesses, &
individuals.
Better understand who’s responsible for what? (Maine DOT, City, &
landowners).
Begin planning & prioritizing: immediate needs (what happens if there’s
a big storm tomorrow?; 1/2 years (what can we manage with no big budge
changes and with creative solutions); 3+ years (projects we want to design
and raise funds for).
Public Discussion on Belfast’s Climate Action
Plan Draft
June 14, 2022
The community discussion on the initial draft of the Belfast Climate Action
Plan held June 14th (a hybrid Zoom and in-person with 50+ people
attending) was an inspiring event! Participants discussed transportation,
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land use, equity in finding solutions that
work for all citizens regardless of their
financial status, and visions for Belfast's
future.
Read the synopsis here.
Download the 5/2/22 Climate Action Plan
draft which was discussed during the
meeting. (Note, there is a newer version in
progress.)
Download the Greenhouse Gas Inventory
"Daydream" exercise envisioning
Belfast as part of June 14, 2022
community input meeting to Belfast's
Climate Action Plan
Report here.
Give your feedback on the issues you
care about
4 ways you can share your input & ideas:
1. Attend a Community Climate Conversation (see events above).
2. Email the Belfast Climate Crisis Committee at belfastmaineccc@gmail.com
with your suggestions or questions. Please put CAP in the subject.
3. Take the quick survey below to tell us what you think should be prioritized
in the Climate Action Plan.
4. Please, spread the word! Share through Facebook, Instagram, the ABCD
email newsletter, and especially in person with your friends and neighbors.
Take the community survey
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Celebrating Belfast ~ Places &
Play! All Of Belfast: Climate
Dialogues 2022 Photo Contest
Announcing the winners!
Congratulations to our winners! And thank you to everyone who
participated (we had 35 great submissions). Amy Tingle of Waterfall Arts, our
contest judge, expressed that she "loved looking at Belfast through the lens
of others." Thank you Amy!
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1st Place Winner, "Places" category: Misty Morning by Daniel Hanscome
1st Place Winner, "Play" category: Walking on the Beach by Grace Murdock
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3rd Place (overall): Bike Rack, Belfast Soup Kitchen by Turil Cronburg
The ABCD project and the Belfast Free Library
invite you to submit photos of your favorite
Belfast-area places… and your favorite ways to
enjoy them!
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Share your photos of the things you love most about Belfast and our corner
of Maine… What activities and places bring you joy and gratitude? Look
around you, and be inspired.
“This sunset photo of the tugboats was taken from the Nautilus patio after a big band of
thunderstorms narrowly missed us. I feel so fortunate to work in this amazing spot right on the water
~ it is beautiful in all seasons!” Photo by Misty Mallar, July 2019
Contest theme
Submissions can be photos from past and present-day. We’ll judge in two
categories:
PLACES - Gathering places, scenic views, hidden gems, favorite spots to
visit and enjoy your surroundings. Think about natural places and manmade spots alike!
PLAY - Walking, beach-going, reading, dancing, gardening, dining, curling,
creating or seeing art, boating, music, festivals, hiking, biking, live theater,
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shopping, movie-going, farmers markets, community events, family &
friend traditions, and so many more possibilities!
How to submit your photo
1. Review the Contributor Agreement. By submitting, you agree to these
contest terms.
2. Send us your digital photo (high resolution preferred) by email at
abcd@belfastlibrary.org and put “Photo contest” in the Subject line.
3. Tell us the date (or approximate date) photo was taken.
4. Share a brief caption / description of why this photo represents one of your
favorite Belfast-area places or activities!
If you need assistance submitting your photo digitally, please email Brenda
Harrington at abcd@belfastlibrary.org.
Deadline for submission: Friday, July 15th, 2022
Prizes and judging
1st Prize (one will be awarded in each category - Place and Play) - $50 gift
certificate for a Belfast-area business who is all about PLAY and PLACE!
Your choice:
1. Waterfall Arts class
2. Colonial Theatre
3. Wild Cow Creamery
4. Nautilus Seafood & Grill
5. The Back and Forth
We will print and hang the winning submissions in a temporary exhibit in
the Belfast Free Library. When the exhibit is done, the winners will be
given their printed photos.
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2nd & 3rd Prizes - $25 gift certificate to one of the above businesses; your
choice.
All winning photos will be shared on the Library and ABCD websites,
Instagram and Facebook with congratulations!
Photo submissions will be judged by Amy
Tingle. Amy relocated to Maine from New
Jersey in April of 2020. She’s a practicing fine
artist, editor, and writer. In 2010 she founded
Brave Girls Art, a creative workshop series for
girls and women, which was folded into the
small business she began with her wife in 2013
—The Creativity Caravan, an organization
whose mission was to design and facilitate
creative programs across the United States.
Most recently she co-founded the small press
Photo credit: Chris Battaglia
Toad Hall Editions and acts as their Creative
Director. Currently Amy is the Program
Director at Waterfall Arts in Belfast, Maine.
Other contest rules and terms of use
Short version (read the full Contributor Agreement here) - by submitting an
image, you certify that:
You are 18-years of age or older (if you aren’t, get someone who is to
submit on your behalf!).
You agree to give the Belfast Free Library rights to use your image in
print or online.
You have received permission to share from all the people in your image
who might be recognized in it.
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ABCD Events
Upcoming Events
(scroll down to see past events)
Community Resilience for the Climate Emergency
Wednesday, July 19th at 6:00 PM at Belfast
Free Library with Zoom option
Register for Zoom link
On Wednesday, July 19 at 6 PM, the Peace &
Social Justice Forum/Waldo County, in
coordination with ABCD and the Possibility
Alliance, will host Dr. Peter Kalmus, an award
winning author and climate scientist from
NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in California. He has
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rapidity that leaves me speechless" and is dismayed that our government is not
placing this existential threat at the center of the challenges that we are facing.
Moving beyond fossil fuels and how we as individuals can work toward this goal,
while living fulfilled lives is the question he and his family have been grappling
with.
Dr. Kalmus will be sharing his personal journey in this essential work, as well as
discussing how we can respond as individuals both locally, and in collective ways
to move us toward a fossil free future. His award winning book is titled "Being
the Change : Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution."
Following the presentation on July 19, Dr. Kalmus will join other climate activists
for two community circles to further the conversation about practical ways to
support a just transition and increase community resilience in this time of climate
crisis. Both circles are open to the public and will be held at the Possibility
Alliance, 85 Edgecomb Road, Belfast on Sunday July23, and Saturday August 5,
from 4-6 pm. All are invited.
Dr. Peter Kalmus, who speaks on his own behalf, is a climate scientist at NASA’s
Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is the recipient of NASA’s Early Career
Achievement Medal, and NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement
Medal. Peter has a B.Sc. in physics from Harvard and a Ph.D. in physics from
Columbia. His research interests include improving future projections of coral
reef decline from increasing ocean heat and extreme humid heat. Peter is also a
climate activist. He engages in climate civil disobedience, for which he has been
arrested twice. He is co-founder of the Climate Ad Project and the climate app
Earth Hero, and the author of numerous articles and the book Being the Change:
Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution. He lives in North Carolina.
Past Events
Sustainable Communities Day
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Thursday, June 1st, 2023 from 12:30 pm
to 4:30 pm at the Belfast Boathouse
Read a summary of the day's events &
ABCD presentation
The Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition
and the All of Belfast Climate Dialogues
Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition's 'Sustainable
Communities Day' June 1st, 2023
are co-sponsoring a series of talks and
exhibits focused on how individuals and
communities can integrate sustainability
strategies into the development of buildings and landscapes. Come learn how you
and your community can contribute to creating a more sustainable and climate
resilient place to live.
Doors open to the public at 12:30. Starting at 1:00 PM we will hear about the City
of Belfast Climate Action Plan and takeaways from ABCD's Community Climate
Conversations. Efficiency Maine will provide an overview of opportunities for
rebates associated with investments in home heating and energy efficiency
solutions. Methods to create sustainable landscape in your yards and in our
community will also be covered. Exhibits will be open from 2:30 – 3:30 and the
afternoon will end with a “Call to Action” panel discussion on what individuals
and the cities in which they live can strive for greater climate resilience.
When: Thursday, June 1st., 2023 from 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Where: The Belfast Boathouse - 34 Commercial St. in Belfast
1:00 – 2:30 PM - Climate Actions We Can Take
Welcome and opening film clip on climate from TNC – Katharine Hayhoe.
City of Belfast: Climate Action Plan – Fred Bowers, Belfast Climate Crisis
Committee
All of Belfast Climate Dialogues: Takeaways from our Community Climate
Conversations – Brenda Harrington, Belfast Free Library
Energy Efficiency and Rebates - Efficiency Maine – Andy Meyer
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2:30 – 3:30 PM Break and Exhibition Time – Short talks schedule at individual
exhibits
3:30 – 4:00 Working with Nature to Achieve Sustainable Communities – Greg
Biddinger, Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition
4:00 – 4:30 PM Panel discussion and Q&A
4:30 PM – Thanks and goodbye
For more information, please contact Gregory Biddinger at gbiddi@gmail.com.
Partial list of Exhibitors will include:
Belfast Garden Club
Penobscot Home Performance
Dirtgoat Permaculture
Revision Energy
Efficiency Maine
Scrap Dogs
Green Store
Waldo County Soil and Water District
Passive Haus
Window Dressers
Get Involved!
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We invite you to share your observations and concerns on the
ABCD site.
1. Use these 4 suggested questions to help write your story.
2. Upload your answers (and/or your photo, or video) here.
3. See what your neighbors have shared!
Public Notice from the City of Belfast:
City of Belfast to hold Community Resilience Partnership
Public Workshop on June 6th at 6:00pm
View the recording here.
The City of Belfast has interest in enrolling in the Governor's Office of
Policy Innovation and the Future's Community Resilience Partnership. In
order to enroll, the City of Belfast must hold a public workshop to
review the results of the Community Resilience Self-Evaluation and the List
of Community Actions, and prioritize projects for implementation through
the development of a priority action list.
Once enrolled, a community is eligible to apply for Community Action
Grants, which are offered twice a year, to be able to undertake additional
planning efforts or to implement the priorities that were identified during
the enrollment process. In addition, an enrolled community has access to a
Regional Coordinator who can help with developing future project ideas
and then aid researching and applying for grants, especially federal grants.
Finally, an enrolled community may participate in training sessions hosted
by the Regional Coordinators as well as peer-learning and networking
opportunities regionally and statewide.
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The required public workshop will be held as part of a scheduled work
session between the Belfast City Council and the City of Belfast Climate
Crisis Committee beginning at 6:00pm on Tuesday, June 6th. Members of
the public who are neither part of the Belfast City Council nor are part of
the City of Belfast Climate Crisis Committee are encouraged to attend and
participate. Copies of the aforementioned Community Resilience Self-
Evaluation and the List of Community Actions will be provided at this
workshop, and can also be downloaded as a single document via the link to
this News Flash.
Community Resilience Evaluation & List of Actions
Rx for a Chaotic Climate: Healthy Soils
Tuesday, March 28th, 2023 at at 6:30 pm on Zoom
This is is third installment in the winter Belfast Garden Club
Evening Lecture Series co-sponsored by All of Belfast
Climate Dialogues, a project of the Belfast Free Library,
focusing on the effects of the Climate Crisis on local
environments.
Laurie Osher
Watch the recording here
In recent years, Mainers have noticed chaotic weather patterns caused by climate
change. In this program, state representative and soil scientist Laurie Osher will
discuss the impact of climate change on our $3.6 billion agricultural industry, and
describe how land management practices can be improved to decrease that impact.
Osher’s rare combination of scientific research and public leadership makes for a
rich conversation. She’ll discuss practices that preserve and enhance soil organic
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matter to increase sequestration of carbon in soils. She’ll also describe the bills
she’s introduced and co-sponsored with the aim of improving land management.
Finally, she’ll speak about helping communities in Penobscot, Piscataquis and
Aroostook counties obtain funding from the state so they can become more
resilient to climate changes.
A former University of Maine faculty member, Osher has worked at the EPA’s
Natural Exposure Research Lab in Athens, Georgia and several other federal
agencies. She has represented Orono in the Maine legislature since 2020 and
served as an Orono Town Councilor from 2017 to 2022.
Community Composting
A panel discussion with: Scott Hesse, Davis Saltonstall, and David Wessels
Tuesday, February 28th, 2023 at at 6:30 pm on Zoom
Watch the recording here.
This is is second installment in the
winter Belfast Garden Club Evening
Lecture Series co-sponsored by All of
Belfast Climate Dialogues, a project of
the Belfast Free Library, focusing on the
effects of the Climate Crisis on local
environments.
The talk will be offered on Zoom.
Food waste is a major contributor to
ScrapDogs Community Compost at Rockland
Farmers Market
climate change in the U.S. Maine, to its
credit, has led a national campaign to recycle food waste, and the state Climate
Action Plan supports community composting. Belfast has considered piloting a
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community site, but has not succeeded long-term. Residents have proposed it to
the BGC, but the club doesn’t have sufficient capacity. Food and garden waste is
recycled locally by many home gardeners, but the food waste problem cannot be
dealt with at scale by individuals.
This interactive program invites members and neighbors to learn about and
discuss the options.
Scott Hesse is a BGC member and co-director of the
Wales Park Community Garden in Belfast. WPCG
strengthens food security by making garden plots available
for Belfast residents and organizations. Currently, WPCG
does not compost onsite.
Davis Saltonstall is a co-owner of ScrapDogs Community
Compost, which works to divert food scraps from
incinerators and landfills. He’s won several awards for his
work exploring a renewable energy transition and
entrepreneurial zero-waste efforts.
David Wessels is a science teacher and garden
coordinator at Troy Howard Middle School in Belfast.
Students supply ~2,000 pounds of produce annually
to their cafeteria and maintain an extensive seed
collection. Composting is part of the program—
offering lessons in healthy soil—and of course
recycling food waste from the cafeteria.
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Community Climate Conversation: The Future of Transportation in
Belfast & Waldo County
Thursday, February 9th, 6:00 PM in
the Abbott Room of the Belfast Free
Library (with Zoom option)
Watch the recording here and check out
the full report, with presentation
Through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, a $13.3M
grant will help 13 Maine school districts buy 34
electric-vehicle school buses this year. Searsport
RSU 20 received an award for two EV school buses
($790,000). Credit: NewsCenter Maine
summaries & ideas from the community
discussion!
Did you know transportation accounts
for 49% of greenhouse gas emissions,
both in Belfast and statewide? Join us for this program in our series of community
climate conversations that began on June 14th, 2022 seeking public input to
develop a climate action plan for Belfast.
Electric vehicle use, transitioning buses and municipal fleets, reducing vehicle
miles traveled through increased access to broadband, public transit, and
opportunities to bike and walk… these are all part of Maine’s strategy to reduce
transportation emissions.
What about Belfast and Waldo County? Come learn about what has already been
accomplished and what opportunities are available, hear what others are doing,
and share your questions, ideas, and priorities.
Co-sponsored by ABCD and the City of Belfast Climate Crisis Committee
(CCC).
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Rain Gardens and Other Water Management Techniques for Your
Property
Thursday, February 2nd, 2023 at at
6:00 pm on ZOOM.
Do you have excess water on your
property following a rain event? A rain
garden could be an effective and
attractive solution for helping to direct
Residential rain garden in Leominster,
Massachusetts. Photo credit: Environmental
Protection Agency
and infiltrate the runoff or pooling on
your property. Learn the ins and outs of
properly installing a rain garden as well
as other water management techniques
that could benefit your property.
Watch the recording here
At our second ABCD Community Climate Conversation event on October 18th,
on the topic of “Creating Resilience to Big Storms and Flooding”, attracted an
engaged audience of 40 citizens. Attendees were energized by brainstorming
actions the community could take together - most particularly the idea of creating
a rain garden in a public location in Belfast and using it as an educational model.
We are excited to have lined up this follow-up event about rain gardens on
February 2, 2023, “Rain Gardens and Other Water Management Techniques for
Your Property” with presenter Rebecca Jacobs of the Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water
Conservation District. Mark your calendars for Thursday, February 2 at 6:00 PM
on Zoom, and in the meantime, let’s get excited to plan a community rain
garden!
The event is presented by All of Belfast Climate Dialogues (ABCD), a project of
the Belfast Free Library.
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Champlain Society, Camp Pemetic, July 1880. Photo:
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Catherine Schmitt
Landscape of Change with Catherine Schmitt, Schoodic Institute
Tuesday, January 24th, 2023 at at 6:30 pm on Zoom
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This winter the Belfast Garden Club Evening Lecture Series co-sponsored by All of
Belfast Climate Dialogues, a project of the Belfast Free Library, will focus on the
effects of the Climate Crisis on local environments.
The first program, Tuesday January 24 at 6:30 pm, Catherine Schmitt,
Environmental Scientist from the Schoodic Institute will give a presentation about
the “Landscape of Change” project on Mount Desert Island.
Watch the recording here
Back in the 1880s, a group of Harvard students, known as the Champlain Society,
sparked conservation efforts that eventually led to the formation of Acadia
National Park. Today their logbooks are serving a broader environmental
purpose.
Schmitt will describe how the Landscape of Change project uses the Champlain
Society logbooks as a baseline to measure the effects of climate change. She’ll
speak on what’s been learned about MDI’s changing landscape so far, the value of
collaboration for monitoring the climate crisis, and the ways everyone can
participate in understanding landscapes of change.
Catherine Schmitt’s multi-faceted background includes directorship of the Maine
Sea Grant College Program at the University of Maine. She has published two
books, The President’s Salmon, a history of the wild Atlantic salmon and its
Maine habitat, and Historic Acadia National Park. She is currently the Schoodic
Institute’s Science Communication Specialist.
The Evening Lecture Series continues February 28th with a panel discussion on
Community Composting; and on March 28th with a talk by Dr. Laura Osher
titled, Rx for a Chaotic Climate: Healthy Soils.
These programs will be recorded and available on the Library's YouTube Channel.
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Maine municipalities are often faced with budget
pressures and high operating costs to maintain older
municipal buildings. Energy efficiency is a great way
for municipalities to save energy and money, and
improve comfort, safety, and maintenance costs.
Image credit: Efficiency Maine
Community Climate Conversation: Modernizing Our Homes &
Buildings
Thursday December 8th, 2022 at 6:00 pm in the Abbott Room
Watch the full recording of this event and check out the full summary with
resources, links and ideas from the community!
-------------Thursday, December 8th the public is invited to a community climate
conversation about modernizing Belfast’s homes & buildings for energy efficiency
and cost savings and to help us reduce greenhouse gasses.
The conversation will take place in the Abbott Room with a zoom option. Register
for the zoom here
According to Maine Won’t Wait, the state’s 4-year climate action plan, “Heating,
cooling, and lighting of buildings are responsible for almost one-third of Maine’s
greenhouse gas emissions. Maine can reduce greenhouse gasses by modernizing
our buildings to use cleaner energy, increase energy efficiency, and utilize lowercarbon building materials.”
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With two introductory speakers (see below), we will ground our conversation in
the State of Maine’s goals and progress, as well as sharing examples of actions
that are currently being undertaken by several Maine communities. We’ll present a
brief summary of the actions Belfast is already taking to modernize buildings and
increase energy efficiency. We will encourage audience participation to discuss
ideas and actions property owners can take to save money and energy in heating,
cooling and lighting their homes and businesses, and take part in planning what
our community should do in coming years.
The event, co-sponsored by All of Belfast Climate Dialogues (ABCD), a project of
the Belfast Free Library and the City of Belfast Climate Crisis Committee (CCC)
will take place in the Abbott Room of the Library. A hybrid zoom option will be
made available also (check back shortly for the link to register).
Ross Anthony, the Buildings and Energy Efficiency
Analyst for the Maine Governor’s Energy Office,
will provide an update on the energy landscape in
Maine as it relates to buildings. He will share progress
on the state's climate action plan, Maine Won't Wait;
upcoming opportunities with the Bipartisan
Infrastructure Act and IRA Inflation Reduction Act;
Ross Anthony, Buildings and
Energy Efficiency Analyst for the
Maine Governor’s Energy Office
and ways for communities to get involved.
Ross Anthony serves as the Buildings and Energy
Efficiency Analyst for the Maine Governor’s Energy
Office. In his previous role, Ross was a consultant for energy industry projects for
commercial, industrial, and residential energy efficiency and market assessments,
demand side management, climate change mitigation, and energy savings potential
at the state and federal level for public and private clients. Ross was born and
raised in Evansville, IN and holds a BSc in economics from the University of
Evansville (Evansville, IN) and a MSc in resource economics and policy from the
University of Maine (Orono, ME).
Naomi Albert, Project Manager of the soon-to-be-launched (January 2023)
Comprehensive Building Solutions Program at A Climate To Thrive, Mount
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Desert, will speak about how ACTT saw the
community need for a program to first educate about
the benefits of an efficient, clean energy home and,
second to provide guidance and support for a
comprehensive approach to weatherization, heat
pumps, solar, and other energy saving building
upgrades.
Naomi Albert, Project Manager,
Comprehensive Building Solutions
Program at A Climate To Thrive,
Mount Desert
Naomi has a Bachelor of Science in Natural Resource
Planning. She is passionate about local climate action
and has spent the past several years working on
climate planning in California.
Community Climate Conversation: Building Resilience for Big
Storms and Flooding.
Tuesday October 18th, 2022 at 6:00 pm in the Abbott Room
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We had 40 engaged citizens attend this event in October. Thank you to all who
attended and shared their thoughts! You can check out the recording of the event
on the Library's YouTube channel, and see a summary and the meeting handouts here.
Synopsis of the June 14, 2022 Climate Action Plan Discussion
The community discussion on the initial draft
of the Belfast Climate Action Plan held June
14th, 2022 (a hybrid Zoom and in-person
with 50+ people attending) was an inspiring
event. We began with a visioning exercise
where audience members shared ideas to
“paint a picture of a future we all want to
live.” Visions included: a walkable/bikeable
community, car-free lifestyle, better public
transportation, electric vehicles & charging
stations, net-zero homes for ALL, cleaned
"Daydream" exercise envisioning
Belfast as part of June 14, 2022
community input meeting to Belfast's
Climate Action Plan
up industrial spaces, and vibrant
ecosystems.
Another event was held by the Belfast
Climate Crisis Committee on July 6, inviting shoreline property owners and
the public to learn about sea level rise, storms, coastal impacts and what we
might do about it. See the synopsis and video here.
We invite you to stay tuned for more upcoming topical meetings
to share your input for Belfast's Climate Action Plan!
Ways to stay in touch and share your feedback:
1. Email the Climate Crisis Committee
2. Sign up for the ABCD monthly newsletter
3. Follow the Belfast Free Library on Facebook and Instagram
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4. Check back on this ABCD events page for future events
5. Read others local folks' experiences with climate change, and share yours.
Climate Film: “Reflection: A Walk with Water"
Tuesday September 27th, 2022 at 6:00 pm in the Abbott Room
Co-sponsored with the Peace and Social
Justice Forum/Waldo County (formerly Peace
and Justice Group of Waldo County).
Filmmaker Emmett Brennan embarks on a
powerful journey to find stories of hope and
healing as he walks 200 miles along the iconic
Los Angeles aqueduct encountering cultural
leaders, ecological activists, and indigenous
wisdom keepers who are re-envisioning our
relationship to water.
The water cycle is being broken, and the consequence is an increasingly
erratic and uninhabitable planet. This award winning film highlights
transformational stories from LA and other parts of California and makes
widespread ecological healing seem well within reach. Providing deep
insight into the inseparability of water and life, Reflection helps equip our
minds and hearts for the important work ahead.
Help Staying Warm This Winter: How to Create an Energy
Efficient Home
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Tuesday September 20th, 2022 at 6:30 pm in the Abbott Room
A presentation by Bridget Gifford from Efficiency Maine
Some people would like to be as energy efficient as
possible. Others simply wish their home was a
Bridget Gifford of
Efficiency Maine
little warmer or less drafty in the winter. Most would like
to save money by cutting their electricity, heating, and
fuel bills, but many don’t know where to start or are
prevented by the expense of weatherization and other efficiency upgrades.
Efficiency Maine, a public benefits fund for energy efficiency programs, is
here to help! Efficiency Maine provides rebates designed to save you money
on weatherization, efficiency heating, and the purchase of electric vehicles.
This talk will cover the rebates and financing programs offered, with a
focus on how heat pumps and heat pump water heaters can set the stage for
a more fuel efficient household. If you want to upgrade to a more fuelefficient household, this program will help you become aware of, and able
to access, the benefits available to you through your Efficiency Maine
program.
Bridget Gifford has worked with Efficiency Maine for six years focusing on
low income initiatives. Over that time investments in low income homes for
efficiency measures has tripled. She has worked in NY and Maine with
efficiency programs and utility providers. Bridget lives in Yarmouth with
her family.
“Waldo County - Engaging the Community on Climate Action”
Brown Bag Lunch Discussions
Tuesday September 20th, 2022 at 12 Noon in the Abbott Room
of the Library. ( moved from the park pavilion)
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Join Fred Bowers of the Belfast Climate
Crisis Committee and Brenda Harrington
of the ABCD project & Belfast Free
Library, for a community conversation
about local climate action.
This is part of the “Seasons of Creation:
An invitation to Celebration &
Community Conversations” series,
sponsored by St. Francis of Assisi Catholic
Church & St. Margaret’s Episcopal
Church, in collaboration with the Greater
Bay Area Ministerium.
Other talks in the series include:
“Close to Home”: A discussion to inform and encourage individual
participation to help our environment (Tuesday, Sept. 12th, 12 noon, Belfast
City Park Pavilion)
Please come join the conversation, and bring a neighbor or friend!
Antarctic Whale Science: How Do Humpbacks Find Their
Food?
Tuesday July 19th, 2022 at 6:30 pm in the Abbott Room
Humpback whales feed mainly on krill and small fish, but how these 25,000
– 30,000 kg baleen cetaceans find sufficient food for sustenance without
echolocation remains a mystery. An ongoing, multi-year, science-industry
collaboration is attempting to solve this conundrum by testing the
hypothesis that an engimatic organ beneath the lower jaw of humpbacks
senses chemicals associated with plankton consumption by krill. This
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presentation focuses on the
inaugural collaborative expedition
to the Antarctic Peninsula in
March 2019, including a 30minute film encompassing both
scientific and tourism activities.
Humpback whales near Wilhelmina Bay, Antarctica.
Photo credit: Adam Rheborg, Polar Latitudes, 2019.
While this research project
doesn’t specifically address the
effects of climate change on the
migrations or food resources of humpback whales, studies of Antarctic krill
by Professor Coffin’s colleagues suggest that their habitats will be pushed
south by climate change, which could affect the timing, concentrations,
geographies, and migrations of humpbacks in the future.
Kids and teens particularly may enjoy this presentation, especially the film
of Antarctic wildlife.
Marine geophysicist Mike Coffin investigates interactions between the
oceanic environment and the solid Earth. After growing up in Bangor, he
was educated Dartmouth College (AB) and Columbia University (MA,
MPhil, PhD). Ever since, he has pursued an international career that reflects
the boundless nature of the global ocean. He has worked in Australia (19851989; 2011-present), the US (1990-2001), Japan (2001-2007), and the UK
(2008-2010). He has also held visiting positions in the US (1982, 2002,
2016-present), Norway (1992, 1996), Australia (2000), and France (2001).
Mike has led or participated in 37 blue-water research expeditions, focused
mainly in the Southern, Pacific, and Indian oceans.
Belfast Shoreline Property Owners Public Meeting
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Wednesday, July 6th, 2022 from 4-6pm at the Belfast Boathouse
View the synopsis here . Link to video here
A public meeting will be held to
present the coming challenges
presented climate change to the
owners of shoreline property
ringing Belfast harbor within the
Belfast City Limits. This public
meeting is being facilitated by the
City of Belfast Climate Crisis
Committee (CCC), an advisory
committee to the City Council, with the Council’s approval. The format
will be brief initial presentations by guest experts and representatives of the
City’s Planning office, all of whom have experience with the changing
conditions around Belfast Bay. Pertinent Geographic Information Systems
maps and website links will also be provided. Following the presentations,
questions and thoughts will be welcome from the attendees in a general
discussion of adaptation and the resources available. The purpose of the
meeting is to begin a dialogue about future adaptations and equitable
accommodations. The primary audience is the Shoreline Property Owners
of record; others welcome!
Date/Time: July 6, 2022 4PM- 6PM
Location: Belfast Community Boathouse
34 Commercial Street
Belfast, Maine 04915
Recommended reading:
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Public Discussion about the Belfast Climate Action Plan
Tuesday June 14th, 2022 from 6-8pm in the Abbott Room
Belfast’s Climate Action Plan draft is ready for community review:
The initial draft of Belfast’s
Climate Action Plan
(5/02/2022) has been created by
the Belfast Climate Crisis
Committee, and it is ready for
your review and feedback!
Download the Climate Action
Plan draft here: Climate Action
Plan
Download the Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report here
More information here
If you cannot attend in person, register for the zoom link here.
"The Art of Re-Climation" Exhibit at the Kramer Gallery
April 5 - May 28, 2022 Exhibit
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"The Art of Re-Climation” is a
curated art exhibit shown in the
Belfast Free Library's Kramer
Gallery from April 5 - May 28,
2022. Pieces are also exhibited here
in this online digital collection.
In response to the current climate
"There's No Such Place As Away" by Katie Giddings
crisis, the exhibit expresses
climate change impacts, concerns
and hopes for a future of
reclaiming the earth’s climate balance. This exhibit, part of the All of
Belfast: Climate Dialogues (ABCD) project of the Belfast Free Library, was
curated by Belfast artist Mj Viano Crowe and Brenda Harrington, program
librarian at the Library.
Once They’re Gone, They’re Gone for Good: Indigenous Shell
Heaps, Climate Change, and Confronting Heritage Loss through
Citizen Science
Thursday, May 19, 2022 at 6:30 PM on Zoom
Maine is home to roughly 2000
coastal Indigenous archaeological
sites known as shell heaps or
middens. These sites are rich
heritage spaces that preserve a
long record of past Indigenous
lifeways and environments. In
this presentation, Dr. Bonnie
Newsom and Dr. Alice Kelley of
the University of Maine will discuss these important places highlighting
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their cultural and research value. They will also discuss the University of
Maine’s Midden Minders program—a citizen science initiative designed to
monitor and record shell heaps threatened by climate change impacts.
Watch the recording here
During tonight's program Dr. Newsom referred to a talk, "The Archeology
of Sears Island" with Paul Bock that the library co-sponsored with Friends
of Sears Island in 2018.
The recording can be found on the FOSI Youtube Channel Here.
This program is co-sponsored by the Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition and
All of Belfast Climate Dialogues.
Dr. Bonnie Newsom is a member of the Penobscot Nation and an
archaeologist interested in the pre-contact lifeways of Maine’s Native
peoples. She is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Associate
Faculty in the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine. Dr.
Newsom’s professional history includes serving as the Tribal Historic
Preservation Officer for the Penobscot Indian Nation and as Assistant
Director for UMaine’s Wabanaki Center. She and her husband Les are
military veterans and they live in Eddington, Maine.
Dr. Alice Kelley is a geoarchaeologist and an Associate Research Professor
in UM's Climate Change Institute. She has worked in a variety of
international locations, and is one of the organizers of the Midden Minders
project here in Maine. She lives in Orono Maine with her husband Joe, and
enjoys birdwatching, outdoor sports, and family.
Living With Thin Ice: Past Perspectives on Climate Change in
Belfast, Maine with Emma C. Moesswilde
Tuesday, May 10, 2022 at 6:30 PM on Zoom
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How did Mainers experience
climate change in the past? What
might this history tell us about
the present and future in light of
the current climate crisis? This
talk recounts the history of
climate change and its impacts on
Maine’s people and landscapes.
Using historical records and
recent data from climate scientists, it highlights the long and varied history
of adaptations to extreme weather in Maine through stories of past
experiences of climate change. Using the example of Belfast and mid-coast
Maine, the talk outlines how and why climate history can offer valuable
perspectives on climate change today, and what lessons the past might hold
for current climate change conversations.
Watch the recording here
Bio:
Emma C. Moesswilde is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History
at Georgetown University. Her dissertation project investigates the
relationships between climate change and agricultural practice by examining
rural experiences seasonal variability across the British Northern Atlantic
from 1540-1816. She is committed to incorporating multidisciplinary
methods and evidence to understand how rural communities responded and
adapted to climate change over the course of the early modern period.
Born and raised in midcoast Maine, Emma has lived and worked in rural
communities and environments for much of her life, including projects
with Maine Farmland Trust and Maine Conservation Voters. She graduated
with a B.A. cum laude in History and Environmental Studies from Bowdoin
College in 2018, and also holds an M.A. in History from Georgetown.
Her scholarly work has contributed to publications such as Nature and HEnvironment and been featured in Active History and NiCHE. Emma also
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co-hosts the podcast Climate History. She lives in Washington, D.C.
Celebrating Our Adventures on Earth: Fireside Chat at
Waterfall Arts with ABCD
Wednesday, April 20th, 2022 at 7:00 PM at Waterfall Arts in Belfast
Waterfall Arts' Fireside Chat this
month will be hosted by All
Belfast Climate Change Dialogues
to help us celebrate Earth Day—
come share a tale of your
adventures on Earth. At last
month's Fireside Chats, we
shared sea stories with Come
Boating; this month, ABCD is asking you to share your “earth stories.”
Come share your tale of adventures or misadventures on land: encounters
with wildlife or wild weather, camping or gardening gone well or awry, etc.
How have you been transformed by your adventures on Earth?
Learn more about Fireside Chats, and RSVP here.
Imagining Our Climate Future: A Policy Perspective
Tuesday, April 12th, 2022 at 6:30 PM on Zoom
Presented by the Belfast chapter of Citizens Climate Lobby, this talk will be
divided into two parts. First, Peter Garrett, PhD will encourage attendees to
participate in the En-ROADS interactive Climate Solutions Simulator. EnROADS allows users to explore the impact of a wide range of climaterelated policies, such as electrifying transport, pricing carbon, and/or
improving agricultural practices. You can see how each would impact
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energy
prices,
temperature
and sea
level rise.
Don’t
worry, it’s
easy. You
can choose
which
policy you
think would
make the most difference, and we’ll evaluate it together. Developed by
Climate Interactive, the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative, and Ventana
Systems, En-ROADS uses the best available science, calibrated against a
wide-range of existing climate models. It is intuitive and very user-friendly.
In the second part, Belfast CCL member Katrina Matheson will share an
overview of CCL’s keystone policy initiative, the Energy Innovation and
Carbon Dividend Act (H.R. 2307), and some of the reasons that it is the
most aggressive solution to a transition away from fossil fuels, as well as the
most compassionate for average Americans.
Watch the recording here
Peter Garrett has a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in Earth Science. He has
been interested in climate science since before coming to Maine 40 years
ago. Soon after his arrival in 1979, he started writing a weekly column called
“The Weatherlog” for the Central Maine Morning Sentinel, while building
a passive solar home in Winslow. He is now with the Citizens Climate
Lobby (CCL) in Maine, very much involved with both climate change
science and the necessary political/economic solutions to climate change.
He hopes that you can be, also.
Katrina Matheson received her B.A. in Science, Technology and Society
(STS) from Stanford University and is currently completing an M.A. in
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STS from York University in Toronto, Canada. She will be pursuing her
Ph.D. in the fall, planning to study public imaginaries of the future and
how they are co-produced with technology policy. Originally from
California but with a deep affection for Maine, Katrina has initiated the
development of a community solar co-operative in Owl’s Head which, if
implemented, would utilize public space to bring low-cost solar to
households in Knox County.
Deep Woods: How Climate Change Impacts Forests & How
Forests Slow Climate Change
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022 at 6:30 PM on Zoom
Dr. Nicholas Fisichelli, Schoodic Institute of
Acadia National Park
Mark Berry, The Nature Conservancy in
Maine
This is the third and final program in the Belfast Garden Club’s Evening
Lecture Series co-sponsored by the All of Belfast Climate Dialogues, a
project of the Belfast Free Library that has focused on the effects of the
climate crisis on our farms, gardens and forests.
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Join Dr. Nicholas Fisichelli, President of Schoodic Institute at Acadia National
Park, and Mark Berry, Forest Program Director for The Nature Conservancy
in Maine, for a presentation and discussion about the interactions between
Maine forests and climate change. The discussion will cover the current and
potential impacts of changing climate on our forests, including shifts in
species’ distributions and the disturbances that impact forests, factors that
help keep forests resilient, potential management responses, and the role of
forests in capturing carbon from the atmosphere and storing it in forests,
soils, and forest products.
Watch the recording here
Dr. Nicholas Fisichelli is the President and CEO with Schoodic Institute at
Acadia National Park. Nick’s work and that of Schoodic is to understand
the consequences of environmental change and engage people in the
science and solutions.
Mark Berry, the Forest Program Director for The Nature Conservancy in
Maine, leads TNC’s work to conserve Maine’s forests.
Growing Food and Ornamentals in a Changing Climate
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022 at 6:30 PM on Zoom
This program is the second in the Belfast
Garden Club’s Evening Lecture Series cosponsored by the All of Belfast Climate
Dialogues, a project of the Belfast Free
Library:
Presenters Haley Jean and Sara Keleman,
M.S. students at the University of Maine
School of Food and Agriculture. will give
an overview of global climate change, with
special attention to effects in Maine and
the Northeast. They will discuss the local
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Haley Jean and Sara Keleman,
University of Maine
effects of global weather patterns and the
challenges that they may pose to those who
grow vegetables, fruit, and flowers in our
region, and will suggest ways to mitigate some of the more confounding
challenges. The talk will also showcase tools for learning about,
understanding, and addressing climate change impacts.
View the recording here
The Maine Offshore Wind Initiative: How Maine is Charting
Our Own Course
Thursday, February 17th, 2022 at 6:30 PM on Zoom
In this presentation, Stephanie Watson,
Maine Offshore Wind Program Manager
in the Governor’s Energy Office, will
provide an overview of the Maine Offshore
Wind Initiative established by Governor
Mills in 2019, with a focus on the Maine
Offshore Wind Roadmap. The Roadmap is
an economic development plan currently
underway with broad stakeholder
engagement. The goal of the Roadmap is to
identify the best course for Maine to
Stephanie Watson, Maine Offshore
Wind Initiative
maximize benefits of the rapidly growing
offshore wind sector to meet clean energy
and economic goals, while sustaining
existing ocean users and the environment.
Watch the recording here
This program is co-sponsored by the Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition and the
All of Belfast: Climate Dialogues (ABCD) project of the Belfast Free
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Library.
Browntail Moth and What You Need to Know
Tuesday, February 1st, 2022 at 6:30 PM on Zoom
Tuesday February 1st at 6:30 pm the Belfast
Free Library and the Belfast Bay Watershed
Coalition will host this virtual presentation
with entomologist Tom Schmeelk.
Browntail moth is a non-native species that
poses human health risks as well as
concerns for forest health. This species is
currently experiencing a population boom
in Maine. This presentation will cover
lifecycle, history, current situation and what
Tom Schmeelk, Maine entomologist,
working in the field.
to look for as well as management and
mitigation strategies. Also covered will be
emerald ash borer, one of the more recent
threats to Maine’s forest.
Watch the recording here
Tom Schmeelk is an Entomologist with the Maine Department of
Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry and the program lead on the brown
tail moth.
This program is cosponsored with the All of Belfast Climate Dialogues
project, Belfast Garden Club, Friends of Belfast Parks, and Friends of Sears
Island.
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Maine’s Climate Future: The Role of Carbon Management in
Farms and Forests with Dr. Ivan Fernandez
Tuesday, January 25, 2022 at 6:30 PM on Zoom
This winter the Belfast Garden Club Evening
Lecture Series co-sponsored by the All of Belfast
Climate Dialogues, a project of the Belfast Free
Library, will focus on the effects of the Climate
Crisis on our forests, farms, gardens and food supply.
Watch the recording here
This presentation will address three main topics. First Ivan Fernandez will
summarize key findings from climate assessments focused on Maine,
primarily the Maine’s Climate Future reports and the assessment report of
the Maine Climate Council’s Scientific and Technical Subcommittee. Then he
will discuss how farms and forests can contribute to what is often called
‘Natural Climate Solutions’. He will talk about soils and soil health,
primarily considering soils on farms, and how enhancing soil organic
carbon can promote both the resilience of the soil in light of climate risks
as well as contribute to reducing atmospheric carbon concentrations. The
presentation will also summarize forest management recommendations
from the recent Governor’s Task Force on a Forest Carbon Program in Maine.
Dr. Fernandez is a Professor in the School of Forest Resources, Climate
Change Institute, and School of Food and Agriculture at the University of
Maine. He has served on various U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Science Advisory Board committees in Washington DC since 2000. He
represents the University of Maine in the USDA Northeast Climate Hub
and has been involved in leading the Maine’s Climate Future assessments
in 2009, 2015, and 2020.
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Call for Art: "The Art of Re-Climation"
April / May 2022 Exhibit
As part of the ABCD project, the
Belfast Free Library is calling for
submissions of art that responds
to the current climate crisis for an
exhibit in the Kramer Gallery
titled “The Art of ReClimation.”
"Mother Nature Holds Her Breath" by Mj Viano
Crowe
We are looking for submissions
that express climate change
impacts, concerns or hopes for a
future of reclaiming the earth’s climate balance.
The exhibit will be curated by Belfast artist Mj Viano Crowe and Brenda
Harrington, program librarian at the Belfast Free Library. Submissions are
due January 21, 2022. The exhibit will take place April through May 2022.
We will also include pieces in an online digital collection dedicated to the
exhibit.
Please submit digital pictures of your art to Brenda Harrington at
bharrington@belfastlibrary.org by January 21, 2022. Please include title, date
and medium of the work. We will announce the selections by February 8,
2022.
Growing Resilience: Local Farmers Respond to Climate Change
Thursday January 20th, 2022 at 6:30PM
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Shown left to right: Bahner Farm, Dickey Hill Farm, Daisychain Farm
The All of Belfast Climate Dialogues project will host a panel discussion
with farmers from three Waldo County Farms: Bahner
Farm (Belmont), Daisy Chain Farm (Belfast) and Dickey Hill Farm (Monroe).
Watch the recording here
As outlined in Maine’s Climate Future report (UMaine Climate Change
Institute 2009 and 2020), extreme weather events due to climate change
pose particular challenges for Maine’s farms. Warmer temperatures harm
vegetables, reduce fruit production and stress livestock. More intense rain
events cause run-off and wash-outs and don’t replenish the water table.
The longer and drier summers Maine is experiencing can require crops to
need irrigation. These are but some of the issues our local food producers
face.
Our panel of farmers will discuss how the effects of climate change including droughts, floods, pests and extreme weather events - have
challenged and changed their farming practices, and answer your questions.
Finding Hope in the Face of Climate Change
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2021 at 6:30 PM on Zoom
Watch the recording here
Ordinary people have more power
to change the world than they
think they do. But it is hard to
stay positive and motivated in the
face of devastating weather and
constant bad news about politics
and the environment. Join us as
we welcome author Susan B.
Inches for a presentation on how
to find your power and take action for the environment—as an advocate or
within current daily activities. By working together, we can create a healthy
future where all life is respected, revered and nurtured. This talk will show
you how.
About the Speaker: Susan B. Inches is author of the newly released book,
Advocating for the Environment: How to Gather Your Power and Take
Action. Sue has worked in public policy for over 25 years. As Deputy
Director of the State Planning Office, she conducted research, designed and
led public engagement processes, and lobbied on behalf of the Governor.
Prior to this Sue worked with the fishing, aquaculture and seafood
processing industries as a Director at the Department of Marine Resources
and chaired the Board of Coastal Enterprises, a Community Finance
Development Corporation providing funding to low income areas in Maine
and nationally. Sue now works as an author, consultant, teacher and
advocate with a focus on the environment and climate change. She
developed and teaches a course called Advocating for the Environment at
several colleges, and offers public workshops on the same topic. Sue holds a
BA in Human Ecology from College of the Atlantic and MBA from the
University of New Hampshire.
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This presentation is part of the ongoing series of programs for the All of
Belfast Climate Dialogues project.
An Introduction to: “The Warming Sea” a symphony about
Climate Change by Lucas Richman
Thursday November 4th, 2021 at 6:30 PM on Zoom
In January of 2019, Kate Dickerson, Founder
& Director of the Maine Science Festival,
commissioned Grammy award winning
composer, Lucas Richman, to write a
symphonic piece about climate change in the
Gulf of Maine. The Maine Science Festival
team arranged a series of discussions between
Richman and climate experts up and down
the coast of Maine. These conversations, as
well as perspectives provided by middle
school students throughout Maine, provided
the foundation for “The Warming Sea.”
Join us for a discussion about the creation of The Warming Sea, a
symphonic work to be debuted by the Bangor Symphony Orchestra in
March of 2022. Lucas Richman has served as the Music Director of the
Bangor Symphony Orchestra since 2010.
Watch the recording on our YouTube channel
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This presentation is part of the ongoing series of programs for the All of
Belfast Climate Dialogues project.
Maine Won’t Wait: How Maine is Taking Action on Climate
Change with Dr. Cassaundra Rose
Thursday October 21st, 2021 at 6:30 pm on Zoom :
Dr. Cassaundra Rose is a senior
science analyst and the Maine
Climate Council coordinator in
the Governor’s Office of Policy
Innovation and the Future. Dr.
Rose will talk about how climate
change is expected to affect
Maine, the state climate action
plan, Maine Won’t Wait, and how
Governor Mills and the
Legislature have advanced
significant, bipartisan legislation
and funding for climate action this year.
Watch the presentation here.
This program is also part of the ongoing series of programs for the All of
Belfast Climate Dialogues.
Hosted by the Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition and All of Belfast: Climate
Dialogues (ABCD), a project of the Belfast Free Library.
Belfast High Water Mark Project & New Tide Gauge
Presentation
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Friday October 8th, 2021 at 3:00 PM
Location: Belfast breakwater, adjacent to the City boat ramp and the
Harbormaster’s office
The Belfast Climate Crisis Committee is
pleased to announce that on Friday,
10/8/21at 3:00 p.m., there will be a
gathering to introduce the High Water
Mark project, a joint effort of the City of
Belfast, the United States Army Corps of
Engineers, the National Oceanographic
and Atmospheric Administration, Maine
Geologic Service, and the Federal
Emergency Management Agency.
Representatives of these supporting
organizations will discuss the origins and
goals of the project; Belfast is one of several places on the Maine coast
where historic high water events are being documented.
During this gathering, the Committee will also highlight other aspects of
the City’s multiple projects, designed to provide accurate, long term data on
the water and weather conditions on Belfast Bay.
US Harbors will describe the innovative GPS-based water level sensor
system installed by Divirod on 9/29/21 at the end of the breakwater, and
the Climate Crisis Committee, and staff and students from Belfast Area
High School, will describe their tide gauges and the weather station,
installed on the City pier with support from the Gulf of Maine Research
Institute.
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Storm Surge in the Penobscot Bay and River: Observations and
Lessons Learned
Thursday September 16th, 2021 at 6:30 pm on Zoom
The Belfast Free Library and the
Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition
are once again co-sponsoring the
upcoming fall and winter series of
programs on Zoom.
Storm surges can be a threat to
life and property in coastal
regions during tropical and midPreston Spicer
latitude storm events. The State of
Maine is most prone to storm
surges resulting from mid-latitude
winter storms, typically called “nor’easters”. When nor’easters track far
enough inland, there is often a strong wind directed from the south over
coastal Maine which enhances surge in Maine’s many estuaries.
We present observations of surge during two of these “windstorms” in one
of the states largest estuaries: the Penobscot Bay and River system. We
discuss the unique citizen scientist monitored water level network, which
was created to capture these observations, as well as some interesting
findings from each storm.
A presentation with Preston Spicer, PhD Candidate, Civil & Environmental
Engineering, University of Maine
Watch the presentation on YouTube.
Hosted by the Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition and All of Belfast: Climate
Dialogues (ABCD), a project of the Belfast Free Library.
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Hot Enough For You? A community discussion on extreme heat
Thursday August 26th, 2021 at 6:00 pm on Zoom
Join us for a Climate
Conversation about extreme
heat:
HOT ENOUGH FOR YOU?
It’s going to get hotter.
We are hosting a public discussion
on Thursday 8/26 to hear how
you have gotten through the extreme heat this summer, and to hear your
concerns and suggestions for the future.
Do you or someone in your family suffer medically from the heat?
Are you concerned about a neighbor or friend?
Do you have air conditioning? Can you get to a cool place on very hot
days?
Should the Belfast community take any steps to prepare for future
periods of extreme heat?
Join by Zoom at 6:00 pm on Thursday, August 26, 2021 to share your
ideas and experiences.
Zoom link (there is no need to pre-register for this event):
https://networkmaine.zoom.us/j/87957820771
Click here to download an information sheet on heat and the human body.
Can't attend the discussion, but want to share your thoughts or concerns?
Email us at abcd@belfastlibrary.org.
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Hosted by the Belfast Climate Crisis Committee and All of Belfast: Climate
Dialogues (ABCD), a project of the Belfast Free Library.
Farmer's Market conversations: How is climate change
impacting you?
Friday August 27th, 2021 from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm at the Belfast Farmer's
Market (at Waterfall Arts)
The ABCD project will have a
table at the Belfast Farmer's
Market on Friday, August 27th.
Come say hello, learn more about
the project, and share how climate
change is impacting you, your
family and the Belfast area
community. Bring your photos,
videos, and stories to add to the
ABCD website!
Concerned about extreme heat days? Worried about sea level rise? Afraid of
ticks and brown tail moths? Confused about community solar? Curious
about heat pumps? Wondering about impacts for farmers, fishermen,
foresters, or others?
We invite you to share your concerns, observations, and hopes about the
impacts of climate change in our region and our response to it.
Location: Belfast Farmer's Market, Waterfall Arts, 256 High Street, Belfast
Follow-up Conversation for "Sea Level Rise, Storms, and Citizen
Science"
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Join us for a Climate
Conversation and to learn more
about the ABCD project:
Register for the 6:30pm zoom link
here.
“Sea Level Rise, Storms, and Citizen Science”
Tuesday, June 21st, 2021 at 6:30 pm on Zoom
The first ABCD program, “Sea
Level Rise, Storms, and Citizen
Science” was presented in
collaboration with the Climate
Crisis Committee on Tuesday,
June 22, 2021. View the
presentation here on YouTube.
Gayle Bowness, Coastal Resilience Program Manager at the Gulf of Maine
Research Institute joined us to explain why sea level rise in the Gulf of
Maine is causing more cities and towns along the coast to experience
frequent flooding.
She also shared exciting updates to the Coastal Flooding Citizen Science
Project that was launched in Belfast in 2020.
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Belfast Is Responding To
Climate Change
In 2014, the City of Belfast established an Energy Committee made up of 2
city councilors, private citizens and the City Planner. The Committee
focused on finding ways to reduce fossil fuel use to save money and reduce
carbon footprint.
Belfast's progress in addressing climate change
Since 2014, the city and the
committee have overseen three
solar projects, upgraded all
municipal lighting to LED,
conducted energy audits and
made improvements to to city
buildings and facilities.
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In 2018, when the 5,000-panel solar farm on Crocker Road went online, the
combined solar farms generate enough electricity to offset 90% of
municipal electricity costs.
In 2020, the city completed two shoreland stabilization projects to mitigate
significant coastal erosion, one in Belfast City Park, and the second on the
east side of the Armistice Bridge.
Report: "Sea Change in the Gulf of Maine: The Outlook for
Belfast"
In 2018 the City of Belfast established one of the first municipal climate
committees in the state. One of the first actions of the Climate Crisis
Committee was to produce the 3-part report entitled Sea Change in the
Gulf of Maine: The Outlook for Belfast.
Part One:
What We Can Expect (PDF)
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Part Two:
Economic Vulnerabilities and Recommended Next Steps (PDF)
Part Three:
Ecosystem-based Resilience (PDF)
Inspiration for a new citizen science project about sea level rise
and coastal flooding
This 2018 report led to the creation of the Coastal Flooding: Storms and Sea
Level Rise Citizen Science Project. After the Climate Crisis Committee
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identified citizen science as a
strategy to collect needed local
flood data, the Committee
reached out the Gulf of Maine
Research Institute (GMRI) for
their expertise in climate changedriven sea level rise and community-driven citizen science. The Committee
applied for a grant and worked collaboratively with GMRI to develop and
pilot this project in Belfast.
Belfast recognized that the unique characteristics of a coastline can
influence astronomical high tides and storm surge. Everyone is invited to
gather and share local observations at coastal flood monitoring sites that will,
in time, reveal patterns associated with local flooding and the impact these
floods have on the community’s ecosystems and infrastructure. These
observations will be used to inform city planning. You can also upload data
about other places you care about, which may be your own backyard, a
coastal trail, or favorite waterfront business.
Additional municipalities (Vinalhaven, Portland, South Portland) have now
joined this project as well.
Climate Crisis Committee continues its work
Panel Discussion: After Sum…
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What has the Belfast CCC done to date (as of 11/4/19) and what can you do to
help us move forward
The Climate Crisis Committee remains active, holding twice-monthly
meetings, offering public programs every month on climate change topics
and outreach to the Belfast Area High School to engage students.
Visit the YouTube Page for more recordings
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Building Hope
We notice that our energy and enthusiasm for climate change
communication rises when we see ABCD as a part of a larger movement.
We made this page to celebrate progress, hope, and the exciting climate
change responses underway!
We also wrote this page to help connect the dots between climate concern,
climate hope, and climate action. There are things each of us can work on
today - from taking small personal action to working towards big systemic
change. We all matter. Together, we can - and are - making a difference.
And nothing feels as hopeful as taking action with others against climate
change.
What gives you hope? What actions are you
taking and why?
Share your perspective in our climate story
collection or send us an email at
abcd@belfastlibrary.org
~ The ABCD Team
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The ABCD team: Sarah Kirn,
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Belfast and Waldo County Progress
Unveiling Belfast's new tide gauges and high water
mark signs - October 8, 2021
Interactive notes from Waldo County Climate
Change Symposium ~ January 2022
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Belfast area farms and organizations are working
together to help build resilience. Pictured: Daybreak
Growers Alliance team, courtesy Waldo County
Bounty.
Belfast is one of Maine’s smallest cities and Waldo one of its smallest
counties, but our community has an outsized role in leading climate change
response and action. Belfast has not one but three water level gauges - more
than any municipality in the world, according to Anastasia Fischer of U.S.
Harbors - collecting data to inform a managed response to sea level rise.
Waldo County boasts nearly two dozen organizations - from churches to
University Extension offices to grassroots efforts - engaged in climate
change mitigation, accommodation, and resilience. These organizations have
recently come together to coordinate efforts and inform the Belfast Climate
Action Plan.
You can click here to read more on the many climate-related accomplishments
of Belfast, ME.
State Progress
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Belfast/Searsport Window Dressers is a volunteer
organization that helps local residents by reducing
heat loss through their windows.
Since 2019, 40,000 heat pumps have been installed
in Maine.
Electric vehicle charging station in Belfast. Photo
courtesy Republican Journal.
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In new and old ways, Mainers are making choices that reduce resource
consumption and lower carbon emissions while maintaining or even
improving their quality of life. From growing or buying locally grown food
to volunteering with Window Dressers to installing heat pumps and solar
panels, Mainers are taking climate action.
Maine has a bold plan - Maine Won’t Wait - for taking action to lower
greenhouse gas emissions and prepare our state for a disrupted climate more
sustainable future. Visit the Maine Climate Council website for details and to
access the One Year Progress Report published in December 2021. Here are
some highlights:
30+ Maine governmental entities have begun electrifying their fleets
Hybrid-electric and electric vehicle registrations have increased 90%
since 2019
25 Maine municipalities have started or launched climate action plans
40,000 heat pumps have been installed since 2019
National Progress
Change is happening, albeit unevenly, across our country. The number of
people concerned about climate change in the US now exceeds the number of
people who are not. At the close of 2021, the US Environmental Protection
Agency released the strictest greenhouse gas emission standards ever for
automobiles. America’s largest cities are taking action now to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions, independent of any federal actions. And some corporations are
setting aggressive goals for themselves, a key indication that financial interests
are recognizing the inevitability of changes to price and availability of
petroleum fuels. For example, the US-based US-based Crowly, a global shipping
and logistics company, has committed to make its operations net-zero in
greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. And the fabled Ford Motor Company has
announced the release of the Ford F-150 Lightning, a high-performance allelectric truck also designed to both charge from and provide auxiliary power
from homes, replacing gas- and diesel-powered generators and introducing
new resiliency to the power grid.
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Can vehicles serve as more than transportation? The Ford F-150 Lightning model of vehicle as auxiliary
power for homes is likely the first of many strategies to create a more flexible, resilient electric grid.
Climate Leadership
Ania Wright speaking at Maine Youth for Climate
Justice youth press conference, June 2021
350 Maine's Youth Day of Action, 2019. Photo
credit Susan Gatti
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Groups like Seniors for Climate Action and Third
Act are organizing to combat climate change. Photo
from Seniors for Climate Change Facebook.
Driven at least in part by recognition that theirs are the lives that will be
most impacted by climate change, young people are leading efforts to raise
awareness and demand accountability and action from governments
worldwide. Young activists like Greta Thunberg have successfully brought
new attention to climate change and inspiring their peers and older
generations. Organizations like Earth Guardians and the Sunrise Movement
are dedicated to supporting and training young people to lead society
towards a more sustainable and just future.
And youth aren’t the only voices calling for change. Bill McKibben’s Third
Act makes a bold call to “experienced Americans” (e.g., those with 60 or
more years of life) to contribute their knowledge and resources to protect
our planet and society.
Here in Maine, these trends are readily visible. Youth-led organizations such
as Maine Youth for Climate Justice and Maine Environmental Changemakers
are giving leadership and support to young people. Belfast’s own youth are
getting in on the action - Jonah Lovejoy’s participation in a 2021 meeting with
Maine Climate Council was covered by the Republican Journal. Adult-led
organizations like the Maine chapter of 350.org are supporting these efforts
as a core component of their mission to fight for climate justice.
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In 2006, Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth was released. In 2007 Al Gore
and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shared the Nobel
Peace Prize "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge
about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the
measures that are needed to counteract such change." It fell short, however,
of launching dramatic decreases in greenhouse gas emission. But Al Gore
perseveres with his message and powerful presentation of the fact. Watch
his 15-min October 2021 TED talk, How to make radical climate action the
new normal, for a whirlwind tour of the current situation, opportunity, and
his case for hope.
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Dialogue & Climate
Change 101
“Individuals, communities, and societies
come to understand, care, and act on
climate change through their
communication with other people.”
This statement is both the observation and organizing purpose of the Yale
Program on Climate Change Communication. And many experts agree. But
how do you begin a conversation on such a loaded topic with people whose
views might be really different from yours?
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The resources on this page introduce some of the proven approaches.
A Climate Scientist Makes the Case
for Talking About It
Talking about climate change, and helping other people connect climate
changes to the things that they care about, is one the most important things
we can do to support climate change action.
Why?
Because with a challenge as big as climate change, individual actions -- no
matter how big -- are insufficient to turn the tide. We must work together
to change the systems that have gotten us here.
Watch this 17-minute video to hear what Dr. Katharine Hayhoe suggests.
The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk
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Maine Organizations Promoting
Dialogue and Climate Change
Communication
Many organizations exist in Maine to help people develop their
communication skills and address climate change. These are three to begin
with:
Makeshift Coffee House creates respectful spaces where people with different
views can talk together.
Maine Climate Table offers trainings in Climate Communication.
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Maine Environmental Changemakers is an organization led primarily by and for
youth.
The Science of Climate Change
Communications
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
This Yale program is perhaps best
known for its publication Global
Warming’s Six Americas. The six
Americas study has been repeated
regularly since the original
publication in 2009. It now serves
as a powerful marker of the
Artwork by Michael Sloan
changing attitudes of Americans.
The study also offers insights into
the best strategies for communicating with each of the six groups.
If videos are more your speed, watch a short introduction here.
National Network for Ocean and Climate Change Interpretation
(NNOCCI)
Motivated by concern about climate change impacts on the ocean, a group
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of zoos and aquariums came
together to hire social scientists to
develop and test an evidencebased approach to climate change
communication that their staff
could use to talk with visitors.
The network now includes 184
institutions in 38 countries and
has a strong track record of success.
It has an impressive collection of
resources for professional climate change communicators and the rest of us.
A cartoon about the challenges of communication
This cartoon from The Oatmeal
presents the challenges of
communication among humans
about beliefs, and the common
pitfalls that get in our way whether we are trying to help
Uncle Joe understand the real
story of what happened that night
with the bear, or trying to shift
our own ideas about a challenging
topic. References are provided at
the end for additional exploration
of the science of communicating with humans.
Classroom-friendly version is available at the link.
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Climate Change 101
There is broad agreement in the scientific community that climate* change
is real, happening now, and that it poses risk to life as we live it today. But
how does it work and what is really happening in our region? The resources
below are organized into three categories: climate change basics, expected
impacts in Maine, and climate change around the globe.
This is a living collection of resources. If you know of materials or links
you’d like to see on this page, please let us know by contacting us at
ABCD@belfastlibrary.org.
*Climate versus weather: Climate and weather both refer to atmospheric
conditions, but there is a key difference. “Weather” refers to short term
events or conditions. “Climate” refers to the longer term average of
atmospheric conditions, practically speaking, the 30 year average of weather.
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Climate Change Basics
Watch Dr. Katharine Hayhoe’s PBS Global Weirding series
Just how long have we known about…
about…
Just how long have we known about climate change anyways?
Learn some surprising things about the history of climate change science.
All the extreme weather we've had lately isn't anything new, right?
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All the extreme weather we've had lately isn't anything new, right?
Learn the key differences between climate change and weather, and learn more
about why scientists are concerned.
I Live in the Eastern US - Does Climate Change Matter to Me? | Glob…
Glob…
I Live in the Eastern US - Does Climate Change Matter to Me?
Climate change will not impact all regions of the globe in the same ways. Learn
how climate change is expected to impact the East coast of the U.S.
International consensus
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) - an international group of
scientists - has been providing sciencebased assessments of climate change to
policy makers regularly since 1988. In 2021
they released their sixth assessment report.
Key findings include:
Climate change is intensifying the water
cycle. This brings more intense rainfall and associated flooding, as well as
more intense drought in many regions.
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Coastal areas will see continued sea level rise throughout the 21st
century, contributing to more frequent and severe coastal flooding in lowlying areas and coastal erosion.
Explore the IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report website for details and
supplementary materials.
Illustrated overviews of climate change science
The following three overviews each present the basics of climate change, and
represent the breadth of impacts and organizations responding. Each presents
the same basic information, with the emphasis appropriate to its audience.
The Climate Change 101: climate
science basics document presents a
short and clear explanation of the
mechanisms of climate change
and its impacts, with links for
more information. Created by the
Public Health Institute’s Center
for Climate Change and Health, it
emphasizes the ways that climate
change impacts human health.
The Land Trust Alliance offers the
basics with links for more
information on the climate change
impacts on various land types.
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The National Aeronautical and
Space Agency has been tracking
climate change indicators from
orbiting satellites for decades.
NASA, an independent agency of
the federal government, studies
Earth’s climate as a matter of
national importance.
Climate Change in Maine and Our
Region
Maine Won’t Wait: A four-year plan for climate action
Maine Won’t Wait: A four-year plan for
climate action was written by a group of
scientists, industry leaders, local and state
officials, and citizens. The plan presents
the urgency and opportunity of climate
change in Maine to both protect the
character of Maine and create economic
activity, and lays out steps to take to
dramatically reduce the state’s greenhouse
gas emissions.
Scientific Assessment of Climate Change and Its Effects in
Maine
The Scientific Assessment of Climate Change and Its Effects in Maine report
summarizes how climate change has already impacted our state and how it
may continue to do so.
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Maine's Climate Future 2020 update
Maine’s Climate Future - 2020 update details
the impacts of changing climate on habitats
and industries in Maine, as well as the rate
of change that is being observed.
Coastal Maine impacts
The Town of Vinalhaven and the Island Institute are working together to
respond to the threat of sea-level change in the island. Learn more about
their work in this short video.
A group of Maine non-profits, colleges, and universities came together to
form Collaborating Toward Climate Solutions, an effort focused on
helping municipalities work together to formulate their response to climate
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change. Read about their work on
Islesboro in this short piece in the
Village Soup.
Advanced Resources
Fourth National Climate Assessment
The Fourth National Climate Assessment by the U.S. Global Change
Research Program present climate information in accessible, accurate, upto-date terms, not to mention thorough. We suggest beginning with:
The 25-page Executive Summary of Vol I, which focuses on climate
science;
The 40-page Overview of Vol II, which focuses on impacts, risks, and
adaptation; and
The 40 FAQs, which cover many of the big questions that you might be
asking.
Climate Change: Evidence and Causes
The Climate Change: Evidence and Causes report from the National
Academies of the United States and The Royal Society of the United
Kingdom offers a very approachable summary of our current understanding
of climate science.
What We Know Initiative
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The What We Know initiative from the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS) has done a great job communicating
climate science and responses; the initiative has evolved into two related
efforts: What We Know and How We Respond. There’s even a short video on
this work.
Resources in the Belfast Free Library
Collection
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a
Divided World By Katharine Hayhoe
Called "one of the nation's most effective
communicators on climate change" by The New
York Times, Katharine Hayhoe knows how to
navigate all sides of the conversation on our
changing planet. A Canadian climate scientist
living in Texas, she negotiates distrust of data,
indifference to imminent threats, and
resistance to proposed solutions with ease.
Over the past fifteen years Hayhoe has found
that the most important thing we can do to
address climate change is talk about it--and she
wants to teach you how.
Check Our Catalog
Click here for a list of new books on climate change in our
collection.
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ABCD Surveys
Past Surveys
What Should Be in Belfast's Climate Action Plan?
For more background please see: https://belfastlibrary.org/belfast-climateaction-plan-input/
This 2-question online survey was available on the Belfast Free Library’s
ABCD web pages (and disseminated via the ABCD monthly newsletter,
social media posts and at events), and had 18 respondents from February to
September 2022.
Read the complete survey responses here.
Belfast Climate Action Community Input Form
This ABCD survey was created mainly to collect ideas from attendees at the
June 14, 2022 Community Climate Conversation providing input to the
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Belfast Climate Crisis Committee for drafting Belfast’s Climate Action Plan.
6 people submitted their comments; mainly those attending the meeting on
Zoom, but a couple other folks responded after the meeting.
You can read all comments in context of our summary of the 6/14/22
Community Climate Conversation; they are also on this page as a PDF file.
Has Your Livelihood or Business Been Affected by Climate
Change?
This ABCD survey was included in our February 2022 newsletter,
complementing the Farmer Panel Discussion we held with local farmers on
how climate change was affecting their livelihoods.
Read the survey responses here.
Climate Hopes for the New Year
In January 2022, ABCD sent a survey in our monthly newsletter (and our
our website and Facebook page). Respondents were asked in multiplechoice form, what gives you the most hope for climate change this year? 13
people responded, including a couple later responses through July 2022.
Comments are shown in full here.
Are Your Holiday Habits Different Now Because of Climate
Change?
In this December 2021 ABCD survey from our newsletter (and on our
website), 13 people responded (including a few later responses up through
July 2022).
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See all responses here.
Did You or Someone You Know Move to the Belfast Area
Because of Climate Change?
This ABCD online survey was shared in our November 2021 newsletter, on
our website and on the Belfast Free Library Facebook page. 10 people
responded (with a few responses coming in later, through July 2022).
See the survey responses here.
What Are Your Top Concerns Locally About Climate Change?
This Google survey from October 2021 was included in an ABCD
newsletter, our website, and the Library’s Facebook page. 15 respondents
chimed in, with a few responding later, up through July 2022.
Read respondents' comments here.
Extreme Heat Community Survey - August 2021
In August 2021, 61 Belfast area
residents were surveyed about
how they coped with the extreme
heat of the summer. This survey
was administered by the Belfast
Climate Crisis Committee and
the Belfast Free Library's "All of
Belfast: Climate Dialogues"
(ABCD) project. Survey participants were at the following locations: Belfast
Soup Kitchen, Belfast Area High School, Senior Center at Belfast
Boathouse, and Greater Belfast Area Ministerial Food Cupboard.
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Survey results are summarized in a PDF document on the ABCD website. It
was of interest to note that 22% of participants (or a family member) had
suffered medically from the heat - including heat stroke, breathing
difficulties, COPD, and asthma. Also, 37% of respondents were concerned
about a neighbor or friend during heat events.
The Belfast Climate Crisis Committee continues its work to learn more about
how extreme heat is affecting community members, and what ideas it might
recommend to the City to help with this issue.
If you or your family or neighbors have experienced the effects of extreme
heat days, the ABCD project and the Climate Crisis Committee invite you
to share your story, concerns and ideas - on the ABCD website, or directly
with the Climate Crisis Committee.
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Climate Action Plan Delivered to
City Council; Belfast Application
for Community Resilience
Partnership ~ June 2023 Newsletter
In this issue: Final draft of
Climate Action Plan submitted to
Belfast City Council & City
process for applying for Maine's
Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition's 'Sustainable
Communities Day' June 1st, 2023
Community Resilience Partnership;
a free class on being a city
councilor; & report on Sustainable
Communities day.
Sustainable Communities Day on June 1st ~ May 2023 Newsletter
In this issue: Sustainable Communities Day June 1st with Belfast Bay
Watershed Coalition; Mainer's Guide to Climate Incentives; Pollinator Week
June 19-25; and A Climate To Thrive's statewide conference June 22nd on
transforming Maine’s energy system for a livable future.
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Celebrating Earth Month ~ April
2023 Newsletter
In this Earth Month 2023 edition:
Lots to talk about! Updates on
what ABCD and the Climate
Crisis Committee have been up
to; ways we can all help create more sustainable landscapes; a sampling of
wonderful local Earth Day & Earth Month Events; and a question: What
does our community need to move forward on climate action planning?
Community Roundup of Belfast Events & Actions
Addressing Climate Change ~ March 2023 Newsletter
In this issue: Learn about all the positive actions &
events happening in the Belfast area community
around climate change!
Volunteers enrolled in the
Belfast Bay Watershed
Coalition's Penobscot Bay
Stewards program
Updates from “Future of Transportation in Belfast & Waldo County” Event ~
February 2023 Newsletter
In this issue: Takeaways & City updates from our exciting “Future of
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Transportation” conversation;
upcoming events including
Community Composting.
A new group called “Walk & Roll
Belfast” is also being created to
help citizens band together to
create more active transit in our
A great turnout and engaged audience at ABCD
event on February 9, 2023, "The Future of
Transportation in Belfast and Waldo County"
community! SIGN UP to learn
more - send your email address to
walkandrollbelfast@gmail.com to be
added to the email list!
The Future of Transportation in
Waldo County ~ January 2023
Newsletter
In this issue: Come attend a
Community Climate
Conversation on February 9th,
Through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, a $13.3M
grant will help 13 Maine school districts buy 34
electric-vehicle school buses this year. Searsport
RSU 20 received an award for two EV school buses
($790,000). Credit: NewsCenter Maine
about reducing greenhouse gases
from transportation in Waldo
County. Check out some great
resources and actions discussed at
our December "Modernizing Our
Homes & Buildings" discussion. Mark your calendars for lots of other great
events coming up including the Belfast Garden Club's winter lecture series.
Modernizing Our Homes &
Buildings ~ November/December
2022 Newsletter
In this issue: You're invited to a
Belfast Community Climate
Conversation on December 8, to
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Maine municipalities are often faced with budget
pressures and high operating costs to maintain older
municipal buildings. Energy efficiency is a great way
for municipalities to save energy and money, and
improve comfort, safety, and maintenance costs.
Image credit: Efficiency Maine
discuss how our community can
modernize our homes & buildings
for energy efficiency and reducing
greenhouse gases.
Building Resilience for Big Storms
and Flooding ~ October 2022
Newsletter
In this issue: You're invited to a
Belfast Community Climate
Conversation on October 18, to
discuss how our community can
October 31, 2021 stormwater erosion on Poors Mills
Road, Belfast. Photo credit: Fred Bowers.
best handle stormwater flooding
& drought.
Community Climate Conversations:
Help Belfast Be Resilient to
Stormwater Flooding ~ September
2022 Newsletter
In this issue: An invitation to give
input on stormwater impacts in
Belfast on Tuesday, October 18th
at 6:00 PM [rescheduled from the
October 31, 2021 flooding of US Route 1, not far
from the Belfast bridge over the Passagassawakeag
River. Photo credit: City of Belfast Mayor Eric
Sanders.
11th]; re-cap of electric vehicles at
the Harbor Fest; & lots of
September events!
Photo Contest Winners & A Moment for Good News ~ August 2022
Newsletter
In this issue: ANNOUNCING the winners of the "Celebrating Belfast ~
Places & Play! All Of Belfast: Climate Dialogues 2022 Photo Contest"; also some
good news and resources around climate change.
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1st Place Winner, "Play" category: Walking on the
Beach by Grace Murdock
An Inspiring Night of Community
Input to Belfast's Climate Action
Plan ~ July 2022 Newsletter
Belfast Summer Nights music, July 7, 2022
In this issue: Check out the
inspiring community input from
the June 14 public meeting on
Belfast's Climate Action Plan;
upcoming events; and LAST
CALL for the ABCD Photo Contest (deadline July 15th)! We also reflect on
last week's Supreme Court decision limiting the EPA's authority; and share
hopeful notes from Maine's June 17 "Communities Leading on Climate"
conference.
Celebrating Belfast ~ Places & Play!
All of Belfast: Climate Dialogues
2022 Photo Contest ~ June 2022
Newsletter
In this issue: Your input is needed
on Belfast's draft Climate Action
Plan! Community discussion on
Tuesday, June 14th at 6:00 PM in
“This sunset photo of the tugboats was taken from
the Nautilus patio after a big band of thunderstorms
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narrowly missed us. I feel so fortunate to work in
this amazing spot right on the water ~ it is beautiful
in all seasons!” Photo by Misty Mallar, July 2019
announcing the ABCD Photo
Contest ~ deadline July 15th. Share
your photo of the things you love
most about Belfast and our corner
of Maine… What activities and places bring you joy and gratitude?
Looking Back to See Ahead ~ May
2022 Newsletter
In this issue: This month, ABCD
has 2 programs that examine
historic and current climate
change here in the Belfast area
and in Maine - including a May
10th presentation by Belfastian
Emma C. Moesswilde, presenter of "Living With
Thin Ice: Past Perspectives on Climate Change in
Belfast, Maine"
and doctoral candidate at
Georgetown University, Emma
Moesswilde (pictured), "Living
With Thin Ice: Past Perspectives
on Climate Change in Belfast, Maine."
Earth Day, Every Day ~ April 2022
Newsletter
In this Earth Day / Earth WeekDetail from Janice Kasper's "Polar Ice"
themed issue: Check out the
series of inspiring events and
activities in and around Belfast
during Earth Week 2022, and give
your input to the Belfast Climate Action Plan!
Building Hope Together ~ March 2022 Newsletter
In this hope-themed issue: Learn about the recent Waldo County Climate
Change Symposium, register for our upcoming event "Deep Woods: How
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Climate Change Impacts Forests
& How Forests Slow Climate
Change", and give your input to the
Belfast Climate Action Plan!
Has Your Livelihood or Business
Been Affected by Climate Change?
~ February 2022 Newsletter
In this issue: Summary of our
recent farmer panel discussion;
Shown left to right: Bahner Farm, Dickey Hill Farm,
Daisychain Farm
upcoming events; new books in
the Library's climate change
collection; and an invitation to tell
us how your business or job is affected by climate change, and how you are
adapting.
Climate Hopes & Plans for the New
Year ~ January 2022 Newsletter
In this issue: Reflections from the
ABCD team; upcoming events
including a Waldo County Farmer
Panel on January 20th; and how
you can get involved with the
project, hear what climate
The ABCD team: Sarah Kirn, Misty Mallar, Brenda
Harrington
concerns your neighbors have,
and share your own thoughts and
hopes for the coming year.
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Wishing you a Happy and Hopeful New Year, from the ABCD team and
Belfast Free Library!
A Climate-friendly Holiday Season
~ December 2021 Newsletter
In this issue: We are excited to
feature offerings from local
Belfast businesses who have
shared their climate-friendly
holiday ideas with ABCD. Enter
our holiday book giveaway! Sign
"Mother Nature Holds Her Breath" by Mj Viano
Crowe
up for our Tuesday 11/30 online
event with author Sue Inches,
“Finding Hope in the Face of
Climate Change.” We are also putting out a Call for Art for an upcoming
spring Library exhibit, "The Art of Re-Climation."
November 2021 Newsletter
In this issue: Climate migrant
stories submitted by local Belfast
residents on the ABCD website;
Belfast leads the planet with local
tidal data collection and
community planning for sea level
rise; upcoming events including
Belfast Area High School students describe their
design and installation of a tidal gauge in Belfast
Harbor, Maine in October 2021.
an intro to "The Warming Sea"
symphony, and "Finding Hope in
the Face of Climate Change."
(Note that you can watch past events anytime on the Library's YouTube
ABCD playlist!)
October 2021 Newsletter
In our first issue: An intro to the ABCD project; a quick survey about your
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events including "Maine Won't
Wait: How Maine is Taking
Action on Climate Change with
Dr. Cassaundra Rose".
Dr. Cassaundra Rose, senior science analyst and the
Maine Climate Council coordinator in the
Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the
Future.
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The above PDF files are a snapshot of the All of Belfast Climate Dialogues web pages, created in 2020, and captured here for archival purposes on July 7-10, 2023. <br /><br />Although ABCD grant funding officially ends on August 31, 2023, project information and educational resources will still be available on the Belfast Free Library website going forward. The Library will continue with educational programming with topics around the climate crisis; and will continue supporting citizens to take action. <br /><br />If you have questions about ABCD or you are interested in becoming involved in community climate action, please contact Brenda Harrington at the Belfast Free Library: bharrington@belfastlibrary.org.
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BELFAST FREE LIBRARY
ALL OF BELFAST
CLIMATE DIALOGUES
Funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services
ABCD Celebration ~ August 29th, 2023
�AGENDA
Genesis of the ABCD project
Project goals
What we did & what happened
Our 5 takeaways
What we hope happens next
Discussion
�SEEDS OF THE ABCD PROJECT
�"The most important thing
you can do to fight climate
change: talk about it."
- Katharine Hayhoe, Climate Scientist
�Why talk about climate change?
"Individuals, communities, and societies come to
understand, care and act on climate change
through their communication with others."
- Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
�IMLS GRANT
Accelerating Promising Practices for Small and Rural Libraries:
A Community Memory Project
2020 - 2023
�ABCD PROJECT GOALS
ENGAGE
EDUCATE
DISCUSS
DOCUMENT
Engage broad
cross-section
of Belfast in
talking about
climate
Curate highquality
education
materials
regarding
climate change
Develop
programs to
normalize
conversation
on climate
Archive Belfast
residents' ideas
and priorities
regarding
climate change
�GETTING STARTED
�PROJECT EVOLUTION
�ENGAGE
Extreme heat survey 8/21
Farmer's Market conversations 8/27/21
Fireside Chats - Waterfall Arts 4/20/22
Unveiling new tide gauges & high water
mark signs 10/8/21
�ENGAGE
ABCD monthly newsletter
�ENGAGE
"The Art of Re-climation" exhibit
& digital exhibit
April/May 2022
�ENGAGE
"The Art of Re-climation"
April/May 2022
�ENGAGE
"Places & Play" photo contest July 2022
�ENGAGE
Waldo County Climate Change Symposium 1/22/22
�EDUCATE
ABCD climate crisis book
collection at Belfast Free
Library
�EDUCATE
�EDUCATE
40+ programs
Over 2,000 views
on YouTube (and
counting)
�TALK ABOUT IT
Farmer panel discussion January 2022:
Second Frost Farm, Daisychain Farm, Bahner Farm
�COMMUNITY CLIMATE
CONVERSATIONS
What should be in Belfast's
Climate Action Plan?
Public Discussion on June 14, 2022
50+ participants
�TALK ABOUT IT
�TALK ABOUT IT
Introducing the Climate Action Plan for Belfast
August 8, 2023 with Belfast Climate Crisis Committee
�TALK ABOUT IT
Sustainable Communities Day with
Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition's
Penobscot Bay Stewards
June 1, 2023
�ARCHIVE
Library YouTube channel
The ABCD Collection:
https://abcdbelfast.omeka.net
�ARCHIVE - THE ABCD COLLECTION
�ARCHIVE THE ABCD
COLLECTION
8 topical collections
120 items
�UPDATED WEBSITE
ABCD pages on the Library website will
continue as a resource for:
Climate events
Maine climate action resources
Highlighting local activity
�PROJECT TAKEAWAY #1
We heard clearly from community voices:
"We don't just want to talk about it!
What can we do?"
�PROJECT TAKEAWAY #2
Many local organizations were already working on
climate-related issues: "We aren't alone!"
“I am inspired by how many diverse
organizations understand their
mission to include climate change.”
~ State Senator Chip Curry, at Waldo County
Climate Change Symposium, January 22, 2022
�PROJECT TAKEAWAY #3
Don't reinvent the wheel:
many models & resources to learn from
�PROJECT TAKEAWAY #4
Local AND National action are both needed
Local action improves the
Federal action is needed to lower global
community's quality of life, mental
carbon emissions
health, equity & climate resilience
(pictured: Belfast Window Dressers)
�PROJECT TAKEAWAY #5
Remember: We as citizens have the power & tools
to create change
We live in a democracy - get involved!
Be informed: sign up for news; follow climate leaders
Figure out who has decision-making power
Go to City Council meetings
Join a City committee
Contact your legislators
"Make your actions contagious by talking about them"
- Katharine Hayhoe
�WHAT WE HOPE WILL HAPPEN NEXT
Municipal decision-making
that integrates climate resiliency
�WHAT WE HOPE WILL HAPPEN NEXT
Take advantage of funding for climate resiliency
(individuals, communities & municipalities)
�WHAT WE HOPE WILL HAPPEN NEXT
More community-driven climate action for Belfast!
For example, Belfast Area Transition Initiative ~2010-2019
�WHAT WE HOPE WILL HAPPEN NEXT
Join others in action!
Community composting for
Wales Park Community
Downtown refillable
Belfast?
Garden - certified
water bottle stations -
pollinator garden
St. Margaret's
�WHAT WE HOPE WILL HAPPEN NEXT
Join others in action!
Troy Howard
GreenStreets is getting a
Middle School
reboot this fall
Garden
Third Act Maine
Belfast Bay Watershed
Coalition / Pen Bay
Stewards program
�PERSONAL REFLECTIONS
�ABCD PROJECT PARTNERS
�CONCLUSION
Working together is the best antidote to despair.
The ABCD project endeavored to help connect the dots between
climate concern, climate hope, and climate action.
There are things each of us can work on today - from taking
small personal actions to working towards big systemic change.
We all matter. Together, we can - and are - making a difference.
And nothing feels as hopeful as taking action with others against
climate change.
�THANK YOU
Thank you to all who have
participated in and supported
All of Belfast Climate Dialogues
for the past three years!
Brenda Harrington
(207) 338-3884 ext. 30
bharrington@belfastlibrary.org
https://belfastlibrary.org/all-ofbelfast-climate-dialogues
https://abcdbelfast.omeka.net
ABCD Team: Sarah Kirn, Misty Mallar, Brenda Harrington
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All of Belfast Climate Dialogues ~ Final Presentation & Celebration
Speaker Notes for Slide Presentation
August 29, 2023
Slide 1 & 2 - (Brenda) Title + Agenda
Hello! And Welcome to the All of Belfast Climate Dialogues Capstone Presentation.
Thank you all for coming.
I am BH program librarian here at the BFL and the manager of the All of Belfast Climate
Dialogues grant funded project. I am joined tonight by my ABCD colleagues: Sarah Kirn
and Misty Mallar. Together we will share with you the story of our accomplishments
with the ABCD project.
[Review agenda]
3 - (Brenda) Genesis of ABCD idea
● In 2018-19 the library partnered with GMRI to promote a Citizen Science Project
on Sea Level Rise. This was when I first met and worked with Sarah Kirn who was
working on that project. It was also the first time the library collaborated with the
City of Belfast’s Climate Crisis Committee.
● Also, if you remember at this time few people were talking about climate change,
in fact, during the former presidential administration federal agencies were
banned from addressing climate change.
● In late 2019 Sarah approached me with a project idea - inspired by climate
scientist Katharine Hayhoe to create a program to facilitate conversations about
climate change that would broaden the conversation and normalize talking about
climate related issues.
4 - (Brenda) Katharine Hayhoe
● Talking is one of the most important things we can do to support climate action.
“The most important thing we can do about climate change is talk about it- talk
about why it matters, and how we can fix it- and use our voices to advocate for
change within in our spheres of influence.”
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�5 - (Brenda) Why talk about climate change? (Yale quote)
● We were also influenced and encouraged by the reports from the Yale Program
on Climate Change Communication that their studies have found "Individuals,
communities, and societies come to understand, care and act on climate change
through their communication with others."
6 - (Brenda) Grant
● With these inspirations in mind, Sarah and I wrote a grant to the Institute of
Museum and Library Services for an Accelerating Promising Practices for Small
and Rural Libraries: Community Memory Project grant.
● In June of 2020, we found out that we got the grant for the All of Belfast Climate
Dialogues Project- “to facilitate conversations among a broad cross-section of
the Belfast community about climate change to ensure that all voices and views
are heard.”
● We began in the fall of 2020- in the midst of year one of the Covid 19 pandemic.
● We felt and still believe that the ABCD project exemplifies the grant initiative to
strengthen the libraries role as a convenor and facilitator of community
engagement and dialogue about challenging, timely topics.
● The rest of this presentation describes how we implemented the grant.
6 - (Sarah) Goals
● From the beginning, we’ve had four goals. We implemented them differently as
we tried program formats and listened to feedback
● We’re going to use these 4 goals as an organizing structure, share highlights
● We’ll also be sharing the mic as we move through this talk.
○ The three of us came to this project from three pretty different places in
terms of focus and knowledge and cares and worries
○ We’ve come to love our work and time together on this project - we are a
pretty great team if we do think so ourselves! And we’ve proven to
ourselves the idea we’ll mention a lot today - that working together is the
best antidote to despair.
○ We have been so motivated and inspired by working together and with
members of the Climate Crisis Committee and others from Belfast.
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�7 - Getting started (Sarah)
● These have been three wild years. Maybe true of any three years? But think back
to where we were in 2020:
○ Administration forbade the use of the term in federal agency writing
○ Start of the pandemic: isolation, fear, obsession with health statistics
○ Zoom was brand new to many of us! Figuring out what we could and
couldn’t do in video conferences
● “How many of you were part of our early experiments with paired discussion on
Zoom up?”
8 - Project evolution (Sarah)
● Abrupt changes in the landscape in the first 6 months of project:
○ New federal administration, very different approach to climate change. As
DC started addressing climate, Belfast was ready to do more than just talk
■ Surprised us how much the presidential administration impacted
local conversation and attention.
○ Maine published “Maine Won’t Wait,” a groundbreaking statewide climate
action plan. Came to guide much of our work
○ COVID became “normal” as did communicating through Zoom and other
digital tools. That said, Brenda and I knew we needed help getting the
word out to people, so on Earth Day 2021 we hired Misty to help with
communications
● We’ll start with Misty reminding us of some of our early moves to engage people
in the region.
9 - (Misty) Engage
● One way ABCD began engaging with the community was through surveys,
starting with a survey on Extreme Heat with the Belfast Climate Crisis Committee
that reached over 60 people - at the Soup Kitchen, the high school, senior center
and a local food cupboard.
● Brenda and I also had a table one day at the farmers market to chat with people
and start getting the word out about the project.
● We also showed up at local events to support others working on climate related
issues like the tide gauges and high water mark sign projects that were the
efforts of the Belfast Climate Crisis Committee, and the high school engineering
students in collaboration with many others.
● Brenda was featured at a Fireside Chat with an Earth Day-theme, sharing stories
at Waterfall Arts.
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�10 - (Misty) Engage (newsletters)
● Our outreach included hanging event flyers in town, and engaging on Facebook
and Instagram, and we also put together these monthly email newsletters.
● These let us reach out to people and share ABCD events, but also spotlight
positive news and solutions, things happening in the community & State, and
opportunities for people to get involved.
● The email list reached just about 240 subscribers, and the newsletters can all still
be found on the website.
11 - (Brenda) Engage (art exhibit)
● We sought to Engage the community about climate change through art and
poetry: Call for Art
● In late 2021 we put out a call for art about Climate Change for an exhibit called
“The Art of ReClimation”
● How many of you came to this exhibit? Any artists in the room?
● The curated collection represented over 30 artists and poets and was on display
in the Library’s Kramer Gallery and Abbott Room April- May 2022.
12 - (Brenda) Engage (art exhibit 2)
● The exhibit received a lot of visibility and positive feedback: I Love this quote
from the comment book: “So many images and words, all connected by the
common thread of climate change’s impact. Lots to think about. Thank you.”
(Lesia Sochor)
● The Exhibit is also available as a digital exhibit in the ABCD collection website
(which we’ll talk about more later in the presentation).
13 - (Misty) Engage (photo contest)
● Talking about climate change can be very serious work. We were feeling last
summer that we wanted to do something on the lighter side
● Decided to run a photo contest about Celebrating Belfast - the places and the
activities that bring us joy, inspiration, gratitude… the things we love about our
little spot in the world here; what we care about and want to protect in the face of
climate change.
● Had great response - rec’d 35 submissions!
● Partnered with Waterfall Arts program director Amy Tingle to judge the contest
● The winning photos are here at the top, and you can see all the photo
submissions online on the ABCD Collection website.
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�14 - (Sarah) Engage (Symposium)
● With the CCC we also hosted the Waldo County Climate Symposium in January
2022 on zoom.
● Members of the CCC wanted to bring all the orgs doing something related to
climate change in Waldo County together to meet, share plans, and open an
opportunity for connection and collaboration.
● 15 organizations attended the symposium: 5-min presentations about mission,
current activities related to climate change, and future plans.
● A summary is available in the ABCD Collection.
● The symposium ended with an enthusiastic call for continued collaboration.
● Fact that it was the library co-hosted helped create an inviting, appealing,
non-threatening space for this conversation
15 - (Brenda) Educate (books)
● When we started the project in fall of 2020 we did what we could to start the
conversation about climate change by adding books about Climate Change to the
library collection
16 - (Sarah) Educate (website)
● We created new web pages with information about climate change and the value
of talking about climate change.
● We sifted through what was out there in 2020-2022 to add to our resources on
the webpage.
● Resources are still available now! Newly re-organized
17 - (Brenda) Educate (programs)
● Another Covid pivot was to host programs on zoom.
● ABCD was able to use this platform to create an event series co-sponsored with
Belfast organizations such as the Garden Club and Belfast Bay Watershed
Coalition.
● In designing the programs, we agreed to have the topics in the series be about
climate change.
Did any of you attend one of our zoom programs?
18 - (Misty) Talk About It (farmer panel)
● We held a couple Zoom community panel discussions like this panel of local
farmers from Daisychain Farm, Second Frost Farm and Bahner Farm.
● It was a really wonderful and eye-opening discussion about the farmers’
experiences in dealing with the challenges of more extreme weather.
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�● The farmers appreciated the fact that the general public is now talking about and acting more on - the climate crisis. They talk with a lot of their customers
who are home gardeners, and who share some of the same challenges on a
smaller scale.
● Noami from Second Frost Farm said, “The more I hear people acknowledge the
struggles, the less alone I feel” - really underscoring the importance of talking
about it.
19 - (Sarah) Talk About It - Community Climate Conversations
● Again with the CCC, we held a series of conversations to solicit community input
on a climate action plan, which the CCC had begun to draft.
● June of 2022: general conversation about topics and ideas for the CAP.
● We identified guiding principles:
○ balancing human needs with environmental needs
○ thinking in systems - up and downstream (literally and figuratively), other
networks exist with whom we can connect
○ equity - solutions must serve everyone, be accessible to everyone
● 4 conversations here in the Abbott Room:
○ Building Resilience for Big Storms and Flooding,
○ Modernizing our Homes and Buildings
○ Future of Transportation in Belfast and Waldo County.
20 - (Sarah) Talk About It - Transportation
● We developed a strategy of we brainstorming ideas in three areas:
○ things individuals can do alone
○ actions we can do as a community together
○ Big ticket, complex, municipal participation required projects.
● Feedback, ideas, perspectives raised in these meetings went both into reports in
ABCD collection AND into draft Climate Action Plan
● And we’ll share some big takeaways from these meetings a bit later.
● All of the notes, recordings and full reports are available on our ABCD collection
site linked to from the ABCD dropdown menu.
21 - (Brenda) Talk About It - CAP Presentation August 8th
● There was a lot of interest in the community to hear from the Committee about
the final draft of the Climate Action Plan that was submitted to the city on June 4,
2023.
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�● So on August 8th, we hosted a “Standing room only” presentation of the City Of
Belfast Climate Action Plan with the Belfast Climate Crisis Committee (now the
CEUC) here in the Abbott Room.
● It was great to shine a light on the CAP- it was the Completion of a body of work
that ABCD Project supported with the Climate Conversations.
● Great discussion, we heard again from attendees an interest in becoming further
involved through creating a climate action advocacy organization.
22 - (Brenda) Talk About It - Sustainable Communities Day
● Earlier in the summer on June 1, 2023 ABCD co-sponsored the Sustainable
Communities Day organized by the Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition.
● Held in conjunction with the Pen Bay Stewards Training, this event was intended
to create connections among organizations with a sustainability-related mission
and showcase their work for the interested members of our community.
● I gave a presentation about the ABCD project which was followed by a panel
discussion where some good ideas/questions emerged:
○ What would it take for Belfast to be a sustainable city?
○ Making “Sustainability tied to economic development.”
○ What are the next steps to forming a coalition of climate action groups?
Who or what organization might fill this role?
● In the next few slides we’ll talk about the fourth goal of the project - which was
about documenting: capturing and archiving the community’s current thinking at
this particular point in time about climate change.
23 - (Misty) Archive (Youtube + ABCD Collection)
● Early on in the project we were able to create this online collection space where
we invited Belfast area residents to share writings, letters, artwork, poems,
photos - anything that captured their observations, fears, hopes, or their priorities
about Climate Change.
● In addition to individuals’ stories & reflections and other items such as our
community survey results, the website captures and archives all the programs &
events that ABCD held (many of them in collaboration with other partners), and
the community conversations that took place as a result.
● All those recorded events are linked from this website archive, available for
watching on the Library’s YouTube channel. Many of the events have detailed
summaries that we wrote up as well.
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�24 - (Misty) Archive (ABCD item examples)
● Here are just a few examples of some stories in the ABCD collection:
● A letter to the editor of the Bangor Daily News from the Unitarian-Universalist
Church of Belfast, marking the third time in the church’s 28-year history that the
congregation spoke out about and took a stance on a social justice crisis: “the
desperate threat of climate change.”
● Another story observes the steep drop in the number of bees.
● And the last example here - if you didn’t experience last December’s huge storm
firsthand, you can check out the flooding photos and videos from my coworkers
at Nautilus.
25 - (Misty) Archive (ABCD 8 collections)
● There are 120 items and stories on the website.
● You can browse through the pages of individual items.
● We also organized the site into 8 topical collections which you can browse
through: Historical Perspectives on climate change in our area, impacts on
residents’ Health, Climate Art, Farms & Gardens, Forests, Oceans & Stormwater
including sea level rise and flooding from extreme weather, Community Climate
Conversations, and Local Voices individually speaking about climate change.
● The ABCD Collection website will remain as an ongoing resource (not just a dusty
archive).
● As a body of work, it really captures a picture of what has been happening around
climate change in the Belfast area over the past 3 years, and people’s responses
to it. It creates a snapshot in time (from an archival perspective for the future) but it also provides a really rich, locally-focused resource for education about
climate change.
26- (Brenda) Updated ABCD pages on the Belfast Library website
● Please go check out the ABCD collection - so much good stuff there!
● Keep in touch on the Library ABCD pages- I’m going to keep them up to date
highlighting events and more.
Brenda - Project takeaways- 5 - introduction
● We learned so much from doing the programs we’ve described and all the ones
we didn’t have time to mention tonight. As we’ve thought about what we’ve done
and what it means, we’ve come up with five important takeaways or lessons
we’ve learned that we want to share. The first is:
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�27 - (Brenda) Project takeaways (1) (“We don’t just want to talk about it…what can we
do?”)
● Early in the project, as we presented ABCD as a “community memory” project we
heard from community members that they didn’t want to share memories, they
wanted to learn what to do to take action.
● We changed our focus / approach to offer more educational and resource-based
events about solutions and actions - for individuals, working with others, and on a
municipal or policy-making level.
28 - (Brenda) Project takeaways (2) (Many local orgs were already working on climate
change) - “we aren’t alone!”
● In the course of shifting our focus to offer more educational programs
- and as a result of the Waldo County Climate Change Symposium, We learned
that many local organizations were already working on climate related issues.
● By 2022 the national conversation around climate change was prevalent, and
more normalized. And many local organizations were adding climate action as
part of their mission and outreach.
● Our successful educational series of programs is one example of how ABCD
collaborated with local orgs to “lift up and amplify” these community efforts.
● We learned the importance of using the ABCD platform to connect the dots
between individuals looking to learn about climate actions and the resources
and organizations that are available to help.
● We - the library - will continue to do this!
29 - (Misty) Project takeaways (3) (Don’t reinvent the wheel)
● Takeaway #3: Don’t reinvent the wheel!
● When we dug in, we realized there was already so much good work to build on from local organizations, other municipalities, and the State of Maine. Lots of
examples, tools and resources to learn from and use as a model.
● I’ll highlight a few here that really impacted and moved along our work on the
project:
● The Maine Won’t Wait 4-year climate action plan helped us to decide on topics
and structure for the Community Climate Conversation events ABCD held with
the Belfast Climate Crisis Committee.
● We also took a lot of inspiration from some other communities’ excellent Climate
Action Plans that were already written, and we shared these documents with the
Climate Crisis Committee as they were drafting the Climate Action Plan for
Belfast.
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�● We also discovered A Climate To Thrive. They are a non-profit organization, which
formed initially as a grassroots group of concerned citizens, and they’re working
to transition Mount Desert Island off fossil fuels. Their focus is to build a model
of climate action that other communities can replicate. Brenda, and many of the
Belfast Climate Crisis Committee members, have been regularly attending their
monthly Local Leads the Way meetings.
● Those are just a few highlights, and links to all the orgs on this slide can be found
on our website.
30 - (Sarah) Project takeaways (4) (Local AND national action needed)
● Local AND National action needed:
● In CAP conversations, we focused on local action, and felt the energy
around community, collaborative actions we might take. Occasionally,
someone would ask - will this change the future?
● On the other side, some climate activists emphasize the need for federal
governments to act to change emissions, saying local actions won’t make
a difference.
● Our takeaway is that BOTH are necessary.
■ We need local action for mental health and local quality of life
■ and we need federal action to curb emissions.
31 - (Sarah) (5) Project takeaways (Use your power)
● Headline: Who has the power?
● This question raised most clearly in a Community Climate Conversation
● We need to re-learn how democracy works, what’s our roles, responsibility as
citizens
● Lots of ways to engage! Something for everyone.
● Finally, circling back to our inspiration, Katharine Hayhoe - make your actions
contagious by talking about them! Help other people feel that taking action is
normal.
Those are our 5 takeaways and I’m going to pass the mic to talk about what we hope
will happen next.
We’ve had the enormous privilege for the last 3 years thanks to IMLS:
● spending time each week thinking about climate change,
● how it impacts communities, and how communities might respond,
● And reflecting on our programs, what gives people energy and excitement.
● We’ve shared our big takeaways, or a-ha’s, lessons learned.
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�● From all this, we have 5 wishes, 5 juicy opportunities for the Belfast region going
forward:
32 - (Sarah) What We Hope Will Happen Next
(Municipal decision-making that integrates climate change impacts & resiliency)
● Climate can’t be an afterthought. It must be embedded in all decisions made by
municipal leaders.
● Already see this approach in the new draft Comprehensive Plan - adopt it!
● The Volunteers on the Comp Plan Committee included 22 climate solutions
strategies in the city’s new draft Comprehensive plan. This is exactly the
approach we’d like to see: climate change being considered in all decisions made
by the municipality, from the vehicles municipal staff drive to budge decisions.
● Also adopt & implement Belfast CAP!
33 - (Sarah) What We Hope Will Happen Next (Take advantage of funding)
● Programs and opportunities are emerging to help individuals and municipalities
reduce their use of fossil fuels - funding from state and federal government for
weatherization, heating and cooling, electric vehicles and more. Take advantage
of these!
● Shout out to the City - joining the State of Maine’s “Community Resilience
Partnership,” the state’s program to connect and support municipalities who are
taking steps to address climate + applying quickly for a heat pump grant for city
buildings.
34 - (Brenda) What We Hope Will Happen Next (Community driven climate action for
Belfast) People- do something join other people inaction
● As you all know, efforts come and go, and things evolve…
● For example, ABCD benefited from past work by the Belfast Area Transition
Initiative that created a lot of energy / connections and tangible projects; we
hope ABCD sets up future efforts in similar ways - one reason why we’ve archived
so much of our work online!
● We’re aware that there are multiple efforts underway already and new groups
emerging- we would like to see them work together, or at least know about each
other, find opportunities for collaboration and maybe form a network
● We’d like to point out that we can’t afford to be in silos. There’s so much to be
done, it’s great to see new efforts pop up!
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�35 + 36 - (Brenda) What We Hope Will Happen Next (Join others in action!)
● There are so many orgs and projects happening here.
● We hope all of you join a group already in action to do something - because we
know how good it feels to join others taking action
● working together alleviates despair
37 - Personal Reflections
● Brenda:
○ A lot more people are talking about Climate Change now than three years
ago! We did a great job normalizing the conversation!! Kidding aside, I
believe this is true locally and nationally.
○ I am proud of the work that the ABCD project did to engage the community
on a difficult and multi-faceted topic- Climate Change.
○ I have learned a lot about the realities of climate change and the changes
needed on every level to reduce our use of fossil fuel and thus our carbon
pollution. Sometimes I am discouraged by this, it seems impossible to do.
But when I see what others are doing and how many organizations are
working on solutions- the youth activists are the most inspiring- I am
encouraged.
○ We have tried to prioritize the solutions in our messaging- the actions you
can take to make a difference and overcome despair. The library will
continue to be the place to convene conversations and connect people to
local climate action.
○ I believe it is going to take all of us working together to make these
changes- to support each other, find the right solutions and learn to
advocate for a climate resilient future.
● Sarah: I have a two part reflection.
○ First, way back when we responded to the proposal call from IMLS, it was
obvious to me and Brenda that a library would be the ideal home for an
effort to engage the community in challenging issues and from which to
issue an invitation to people to come and be heard, share ideas, etc.
Looking back on these three years, I'm more convinced than ever of the
central role of libraries in Maine communities facing change. Why we're
writing up the "ABCD model" for other communities to follow. I only wish I
lived in Belfast or had a grant and relationships in my own community to
follow suit! And I just might work to make that happen.
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�○ Also - Kudos to Steve Norman, Brenda Harrington, and the library board for
saying yes to this opportunity! A library is an obvious home for this work,
but this work never promised to be comfortable. The Belfast library
leaders deserve a big round of applause for taking this project on.
○ The second part of my reflection I owe to the Belfast community and in
particular, something I heard in the Future of Transportation Community
Climate Conversation. We had such a great crowd for that event, with so
many great ideas for alternative transportation, active transportation,
public transportation, ride-sharing. In the middle of this conversation, I
realized that all these great ideas had something in common: each of
these lower carbon emission ways of getting around take just a tiny bit
more time. Not what America was built on - we’re about going faster,
farther, getting ahead. We need to adjust our priorities to put our planet,
our well-being alongside our financial success, productivity, individual
achievement
○ Path forward is working together - can’t change culture alone!
● Misty:
○ I wasn’t thinking a lot about climate change before this project. I didn’t
even pay much attention to the news before Covid, honestly. I’ve learned
so much about the climate crisis, and become so much more aware, on a
daily basis.
I’m not sure exactly what I want to do now that the project is coming to a
close. I know I want to keep doing something to help.
○ We’ve been talking lately about the rising feeling of fear in people. All
summer, so many places in the world are flooding or on fire. I’ve felt that
fear and malaise on a personal level with our health in the hot
temperatures; our gardens and properties with all the rain.
○ Personally I have a tendency to put my head down and just pay attention
to what’s close to home that I feel like I might have some control over. But
I feel an urgency and awareness now that I didn’t before. This isn’t just
about me and my corner of the world. And we have to work together to
survive this.
○ I was looking for pictures recently of local climate action, I came across
the Keeping Belfast Maine Beautiful cleanup weekend photos. And I
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�thought to myself, if 800 people can accomplish that much in one
weekend, what could be accomplished if that energy and that level of
organization were sustained? Community organizing is hard. But could
Belfast do something going forward together with that kind of group
energy?
○ My path forward personally is stay focused on solutions, on feeling
hopeful and not despairing, and remember that I live in this community
with a lot of really wonderful people who also care. We’re not alone.
38 - (Brenda) Project Partners
● Thank you to the many local organizations & others we have collaborated with on
educational programs and conversations about climate action
● As your local library, we’re here to continue being a trusted space for community
engagement and dialogue.
39 - (Brenda) Conclusion
● In conclusion: Working together is the antidote for despair!
40 - (Brenda) Thank you
● Thank you IMLS for the project grant
● Thank you everyone for your support and involvement - and stay in touch!
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">On Tuesday August 29th, 2023, the All of Belfast Climate Dialogues (ABCD) team, Sarah Kirn, Misty Mallar and librarian Brenda Harrington <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5nhi6F6U9s" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">highlighted their efforts of the past three years to engage the community in conversations about climate resiliency</a>. The event took place in the Abbott Room of the Belfast Free Library with refreshments and cake. <br /><br />Nearly 60 people were in attendance for this celebratory evening. Attendee Ernie Cooper commented after the event: <br /><br /><span><em>"Wow! I just got home from the ABCD meeting at the Library, and I wanted to let you know how impressed I am with what you and your co-conspirators have been able to do over the last three years. It's clear that you didn't just get people talking about climate change, but you were able to bring people together and do the important work of building community. Congratulations to you and everyone involved."</em><br /><br /></span>We, the ABCD team, extend our thanks to everyone who has been involved and supported this project; and we hope that this community energy for addressing the climate crisis will continue. Check out the recorded <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5nhi6F6U9s" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">presentation</a>, notes and slides for our takeaways from this project, and what we hope will happen next. </span></p>
<hr /><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5nhi6F6U9s"><b>Watch the event recording</b></a><b>.<br /></b><b><br /></b><b>The evening’s slide presentation</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> is included above (PDF file), along with the accompanying speaker notes (below, in the text, and also a PDF above).</span></p>
<hr /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">In 2020, the Belfast Free Library won a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services for the All of Belfast Climate Dialogues, a Community Memory project. The grant was to develop educational programs and facilitate conversations among a broad cross-section of the Belfast community about climate change. Part of the grant was to create an archive of Belfast area residents’ observations, concerns and hopes about climate change impacts in our region at this critical time.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">To accomplish this the ABCD project designed informative web pages and hosted a series of educational programs on climate change. From 2020-2023, ABCD held over 40 educational programs & community climate conversations. You can find these on our </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4CxlaYUpHJzSh2CRTrclWYTg6lnfzVCN"><span style="font-weight:400;">YouTube ABCD playlist</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">, our </span><a href="https://belfastlibrary.org/abcd-events/"><span style="font-weight:400;">event summaries</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">, and highlighted in the </span><a href="https://abcdbelfast.omeka.net/"><span style="font-weight:400;">ABCD archive</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">. A tour of all of the archived resources on the website was also included in the presentation.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Although the funding for the ABCD grant has ended as of August 31, 2023, the Library will continue offering educational programs on the climate crisis and serve as a resource for climate change topics and issues.</strong></p>
<div style="text-align:center;"><strong>Thank you to everyone who joined us to reflect and celebrate for the evening, and thank you to the <a href="https://belfastlibrary.org/abcd-partners/">many local organizations we partnered with on education and climate action</a></strong><strong>.</strong> <br /><br />For updates going forward, please feel free to contact Brenda Harrington at <a href="mailto:bharrington@belfastlibrary.org">bharrington@belfastlibrary.org</a>.</div>
<span style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span></span><hr /><div style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">SPEAKER NOTES:<br /><br /></span></span></div>
<p><b>Slide 1 & 2 - (Brenda) Title + Agenda</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Hello! And Welcome to the All of Belfast Climate Dialogues</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">Capstone Presentation. Thank you all for coming.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I am BH program librarian here at the BFL and the manager of the All of Belfast Climate Dialogues </span><i><span style="font-weight:400;">grant funded</span></i><span style="font-weight:400;"> project. I am joined tonight by my ABCD colleagues: Sarah Kirn and Misty Mallar. Together we will share with you the story of our accomplishments with the ABCD project.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Review agenda]</span></p>
<p><b>3 - (Brenda) Genesis of ABCD idea </b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">In 2018-19 the library partnered with GMRI to promote a Citizen Science Project on Sea Level Rise. This was when I first met and worked with Sarah Kirn who was working on that project. It was also the first time the library collaborated with the City of Belfast’s Climate Crisis Committee.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Also, if you remember at this time few people were talking about climate change, in fact, during the former presidential administration federal agencies were banned from addressing climate change.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">In late 2019 Sarah approached me with a project idea - inspired by climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe to create a program to facilitate conversations about climate change that would broaden the conversation and normalize talking about climate related issues.</span></li>
</ul><p><b>4</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> - </span><b>(Brenda) Katharine Hayhoe</b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Talking is one of the most important things we can do to support climate action.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">“The most important thing we can do about climate change is talk about it- talk about why it matters, and how we can fix it- and use our voices to advocate for change within in our spheres of influence.”</span></li>
</ul><p><b>5 - (Brenda) Why talk about climate change? (Yale quote)</b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We were also influenced and encouraged by the reports from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication that their studies have found "Individuals, communities, and societies come to understand, care and act on climate change through their communication with others."</span></li>
</ul><p><b>6 - (Brenda) Grant</b></p>
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<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">With these inspirations in mind, Sarah and I wrote a grant to the Institute of Museum and Library Services for an Accelerating Promising Practices for Small and Rural Libraries: Community Memory Project grant.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">In June of 2020, we found out that we got the grant for the All of Belfast Climate Dialogues Project- “to facilitate conversations among a broad cross-section of the Belfast community about climate change to ensure that all voices and views are heard.”</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We began in the fall of 2020- in the midst of year one of the Covid 19 pandemic. </span></li>
</ul></li>
</ul><ul><li>We felt and still believe that the ABCD project exemplifies the grant initiative to strengthen the libraries role as a convenor and facilitator of community engagement and dialogue about challenging, timely topics.</li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">The rest of this presentation describes how we implemented the grant.</span></li>
</ul><p><b>6 - (Sarah) Goals</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> </span></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">From the beginning, we’ve had four goals. We implemented them differently as we tried program formats and listened to feedback</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We’re going to use these 4 goals as an organizing structure, share highlights </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We’ll also be sharing the mic as we move through this talk. </span></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">The three of us came to this project from three pretty different places in terms of focus and knowledge and cares and worries</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We’ve come to love our work and time together on this project - we are a pretty great team if we do think so ourselves! And we’ve proven to ourselves the idea we’ll mention a lot today - that working together is the best antidote to despair. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We have been so motivated and inspired by working together and with members of the Climate Crisis Committee and others from Belfast. </span></li>
</ul><p><b>7 - Getting started (Sarah) </b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">These have been three wild years. Maybe true of any three years? But think back to where we were in 2020: </span>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Administration forbade the use of the term in federal agency writing</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Start of the pandemic: isolation, fear, obsession with health statistics</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Zoom was brand new to many of us! Figuring out what we could and couldn’t do in video conferences</span></li>
</ul></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">“How many of you were part of our early experiments with paired discussion on Zoom up?”</span></li>
</ul><p><b>8 - Project evolution (Sarah) </b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Abrupt changes in the landscape in the first 6 months of project:</span>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">New federal administration, very different approach to climate change. As DC started addressing climate, Belfast was ready to do more than just talk</span>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Surprised us how much the presidential administration impacted local conversation and attention.</span></li>
</ul></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Maine published “Maine Won’t Wait,” a groundbreaking statewide climate action plan. Came to guide much of our work</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">COVID became “normal” as did communicating through Zoom and other digital tools. That said, Brenda and I knew we needed help getting the word out to people, so on Earth Day 2021 we hired Misty to help with communications </span></li>
</ul></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We’ll start with Misty reminding us of some of our early moves to engage people in the region.</span></li>
</ul><p><b>9 - (Misty) Engage</b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">One way ABCD began engaging with the community was through surveys, starting with a survey on Extreme Heat with the Belfast Climate Crisis Committee that reached over 60 people - at the Soup Kitchen, the high school, senior center and a local food cupboard.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Brenda and I also had a table one day at the farmers market to chat with people and start getting the word out about the project.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We also showed up at local events to support others working on climate related issues like the tide gauges and high water mark sign projects that were the efforts of the Belfast Climate Crisis Committee, and the high school engineering students in collaboration with many others.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Brenda was featured at a Fireside Chat with an Earth Day-theme, sharing stories at Waterfall Arts.</span></li>
</ul><p><b>10 - (Misty) Engage (newsletters)</b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Our outreach included hanging event flyers in town, and engaging on Facebook and Instagram, and we also put together these monthly email newsletters. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">These let us reach out to people and share ABCD events, but also spotlight positive news and solutions, things happening in the community & State, and opportunities for people to get involved.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">The email list reached just about 240 subscribers, and the newsletters can all still be found on the website.</span></li>
</ul><p><b>11 - (Brenda) Engage (art exhibit)</b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We sought to Engage the community about climate change through art and poetry: Call for Art</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">In late 2021 we put out a call for art about Climate Change for an exhibit called “The Art of ReClimation” </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">How many of you came to this exhibit? Any artists in the room? </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">The curated collection represented over 30 artists and poets and was on display in the Library’s Kramer Gallery and Abbott Room April- May 2022.</span></li>
</ul><p><b>12 - (Brenda) Engage (art exhibit 2)</b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">The exhibit received a lot of visibility and positive feedback: I Love this quote from the comment book: “So many images and words, all connected by the common thread of climate change’s impact. Lots to think about. Thank you.” (Lesia Sochor)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">The Exhibit is also available as a digital exhibit in the ABCD collection website (which we’ll talk about more later in the presentation).</span></li>
</ul><p><b>13 - (Misty) Engage (photo contest)</b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Talking about climate change can be very serious work. We were feeling last summer that we wanted to do something on the lighter side</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Decided to run a photo contest about Celebrating Belfast - the places and the activities that bring us joy, inspiration, gratitude… the things we love about our little spot in the world here; what we care about and want to protect in the face of climate change. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Had great response - rec’d 35 submissions! </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Partnered with Waterfall Arts program director Amy Tingle to judge the contest</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">The winning photos are here at the top, and you can see all the photo submissions online on the ABCD Collection website.</span></li>
</ul><p><b>14 - (Sarah) Engage (Symposium)</b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">With the CCC we also hosted the Waldo County Climate Symposium in January 2022 on zoom.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Members of the CCC wanted to bring all the orgs doing something related to climate change in Waldo County together to meet, share plans, and open an opportunity for connection and collaboration.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">15 organizations attended the symposium: 5-min presentations about mission, current activities related to climate change, and future plans. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">A summary is available in the ABCD Collection. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">The symposium ended with an enthusiastic call for continued collaboration.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Fact that it was the library co-hosted helped create an inviting, appealing, non-threatening space for this conversation</span></li>
</ul><p><b>15 - (Brenda) Educate (books)</b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">When we started the project in fall of 2020 we did what we could to start the conversation about climate change by adding books about Climate Change to the library collection</span></li>
</ul><p><b>16 - (Sarah) Educate (website)</b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We created new web pages with information about climate change and the value of talking about climate change. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We sifted through what was out there in 2020-2022 to add to our resources on the webpage. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Resources are still available now! Newly re-organized</span></li>
</ul><p><b>17 - (Brenda) Educate (programs)</b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Another Covid pivot was to host programs on zoom.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">ABCD was able to use this platform to create an event series </span><b>co-sponsored</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> with Belfast organizations such as the Garden Club and Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;"> In designing the programs, we agreed to have the topics in the series be about climate change. </span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Did any of you attend one of our zoom programs? </span></li>
</ul><p><b>18 - (Misty) Talk About It (farmer panel)</b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We held a couple Zoom community panel discussions like this panel of local farmers from Daisychain Farm, Second Frost Farm and Bahner Farm.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">It was a really wonderful and eye-opening discussion about the farmers’ experiences in dealing with the challenges of more extreme weather.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">The farmers appreciated the fact that the general public is now talking about - and acting more on - the climate crisis. They talk with a lot of their customers who are home gardeners, and who share some of the same challenges on a smaller scale.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Noami from Second Frost Farm said, “The more I hear people acknowledge the struggles, the less alone I feel” - really underscoring the importance of talking about it.</span></li>
</ul><p><b>19 - (Sarah) Talk About It - Community Climate Conversations</b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Again with the CCC, we held a series of conversations to solicit community input on a climate action plan, which the CCC had begun to draft. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">June of 2022: general conversation about topics and ideas for the CAP. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We identified guiding principles:</span>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">balancing human needs with environmental needs</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">thinking in systems - up and downstream (literally and figuratively), other networks exist with whom we can connect</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">equity - solutions must serve everyone, be accessible to everyone</span></li>
</ul></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">4 conversations here in the Abbott Room: </span>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Building Resilience for Big Storms and Flooding,</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Modernizing our Homes and Buildings </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Future of Transportation in Belfast and Waldo County.</span></li>
</ul></li>
</ul><p><b>20 - (Sarah) Talk About It - Transportation</b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We developed a strategy of we brainstorming ideas in three areas: </span>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">things individuals can do alone</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">actions we can do as a community together</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Big ticket, complex, municipal participation required projects. </span></li>
</ul></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Feedback, ideas, perspectives raised in these meetings went both into reports in ABCD collection AND into draft Climate Action Plan</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">And we’ll share some big takeaways from these meetings a bit later.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">All of the notes, recordings and full reports are available on our ABCD collection site linked to from the ABCD dropdown menu.</span></li>
</ul><p><b>21 - (Brenda) Talk About It - CAP Presentation August 8th</b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">There was a lot of interest in the community to hear from the Committee about the final draft of the Climate Action Plan that was submitted to the city on June 4, 2023.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">So on August 8th, we hosted a “Standing room only” presentation of the City Of Belfast Climate Action Plan with the Belfast Climate Crisis Committee (now the CEUC) here in the Abbott Room.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">It was great to shine a light on the CAP- it was the Completion of a body of work that ABCD Project supported with the Climate Conversations.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Great discussion, we heard again from attendees an interest in becoming further involved through creating a climate action advocacy organization.</span></li>
</ul><p><b>22 - (Brenda) Talk About It - Sustainable Communities Day</b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Earlier in the summer on June 1, 2023 ABCD co-sponsored the Sustainable Communities Day organized by the </span><a href="http://belfastbaywatershed.org/"><span style="font-weight:400;">Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Held in conjunction with the </span><a href="http://belfastbaywatershed.org/pen-bay-stewards.php"><span style="font-weight:400;">Pen Bay Stewards</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;"> Training, this event was intended to create connections among organizations with a sustainability-related mission and showcase their work for the interested members of our community.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">I gave a presentation about the ABCD project which was followed by a panel discussion where some good ideas/questions emerged:</span>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">What would it take for Belfast to be a sustainable city?</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Making “Sustainability tied to economic development.” </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">What are the next steps to forming a coalition of climate action groups? Who or what organization might fill this role? </span></li>
</ul></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">In the next few slides we’ll talk about the fourth goal of the project - which was about </span><span style="font-weight:400;">documenting</span><span style="font-weight:400;">: capturing and archiving the community’s current thinking at this particular point in time about climate change.</span></li>
</ul><p><b>23 - (Misty) Archive (Youtube + ABCD Collection)</b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Early on in the project we were able to create this online collection space where we invited Belfast area residents to share writings, letters, artwork, poems, photos - anything that captured their observations, fears, hopes, or their priorities about Climate Change. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">In addition to individuals’ stories & reflections and other items such as our community survey results, the website captures and archives </span><span style="font-weight:400;">all</span><span style="font-weight:400;"> the programs & events that ABCD held (many of them in collaboration with other partners), and the community conversations that took place as a result. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">All those recorded events are linked from this website archive, available for watching on the Library’s YouTube channel. Many of the events have detailed summaries that we wrote up as well.</span></li>
</ul><p><b>24 - (Misty) Archive (ABCD item examples)</b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Here are just a few examples of some stories in the ABCD collection:</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">A letter to the editor of the Bangor Daily News from the Unitarian-Universalist Church of Belfast, marking the third time in the church’s 28-year history that the congregation spoke out about and took a stance on a social justice crisis: “the desperate threat of climate change.”</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Another story observes the steep drop in the number of bees.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">And the last example here - if you didn’t experience last December’s huge storm firsthand, you can check out the flooding photos and videos from my coworkers at Nautilus.</span></li>
</ul><p><b>25 - (Misty) Archive (ABCD 8 collections)</b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">There are 120 items and stories on the website.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">You can browse through the pages of individual items.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We also organized the site into 8 topical collections which you can browse through: Historical Perspectives on climate change in our area, impacts on residents’ Health, Climate Art, Farms & Gardens, Forests, Oceans & Stormwater including sea level rise and flooding from extreme weather, Community Climate Conversations, and Local Voices individually speaking about climate change.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">The ABCD Collection website will remain as an ongoing resource (not just a dusty archive). </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">As a body of work, it really captures a picture of what has been happening around climate change in the Belfast area over the past 3 years, and people’s responses to it. It creates a snapshot in time (from an archival perspective for the future) - but it also provides a really rich, locally-focused resource for education about climate change. </span></li>
</ul><p><b>26 - (Brenda) Updated ABCD pages on the Belfast Library website</b></p>
<ul><li>Please go check out the ABCD collection - so much good stuff there!</li>
</ul><ul><li>Keep in touch on the Library ABCD pages- I’m going to keep them up to date highlighting events and more.</li>
</ul><p><b>Brenda - Project takeaways- 5 - introduction</b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We learned so much from doing the programs we’ve described and all the ones we didn’t have time to mention tonight. As we’ve thought about what we’ve done and what it means, we’ve come up with five important takeaways or lessons we’ve learned that we want to share. The first is:</span></li>
</ul><p><b>27 - (Brenda) Project takeaways (1) (“We don’t just want to talk about it…what can we do?”)</b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Early in the project, as we presented ABCD as a “community memory” project we heard from community members that they didn’t want to share memories, they wanted to learn what to do to take action. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We changed our focus / approach to offer more educational and resource-based events about solutions and actions - for individuals, working with others, and on a municipal or policy-making level.</span></li>
</ul><p><b>28 - (Brenda) Project takeaways (2) (Many local orgs were already working on climate change) - “we aren’t alone!” </b></p>
<ul><li>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">In the course of shifting our focus to offer more educational programs</span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">- and as a result of the Waldo County Climate Change Symposium, We learned that many local organizations were already working on climate related issues.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">By 2022 the national conversation around climate change was prevalent, and more normalized. And many local organizations were adding climate action as part of their mission and outreach. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Our successful educational series of programs is one example of how ABCD collaborated with local orgs to “lift up and amplify” these community efforts.</span></li>
</ul></li>
</ul><ul><li>We learned the importance of using the ABCD platform to connect the dots between individuals looking to learn about climate actions and the resources and organizations that are available to help. </li>
</ul><ul><li>We - the library - will continue to do this!</li>
</ul><p><b>29 - (Misty) Project takeaways (3) (Don’t reinvent the wheel)</b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Takeaway #3: Don’t reinvent the wheel!</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">When we dug in, we realized there was already so much good work to build on - from local organizations, other municipalities, and the State of Maine. Lots of examples, tools and resources to learn from and use as a model.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">I’ll highlight a few here that really impacted and moved along our work on the project: </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">The Maine Won’t Wait 4-year climate action plan helped us to decide on topics and structure for the Community Climate Conversation events ABCD held with the Belfast Climate Crisis Committee.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We also took a lot of inspiration from some other communities’ excellent Climate Action Plans that were already written, and we shared these documents with the Climate Crisis Committee as they were drafting the Climate Action Plan for Belfast. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We also discovered A Climate To Thrive. They are a non-profit organization, which formed initially as a grassroots group of concerned citizens, and they’re working to transition </span><span style="font-weight:400;">Mount Desert Island off fossil fuels. Their focus is to build a model of climate action that other communities can replicate. Brenda, and many of the Belfast Climate Crisis Committee members, have been regularly attending their monthly </span><a href="https://www.aclimatetothrive.org/localleadstheway"><span style="font-weight:400;">Local Leads the Way</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;"> meetings. </span></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Those are just a few highlights, and links to all the orgs on this slide can be found on our website.</span></li>
</ul><p><b>30 - (Sarah) Project takeaways (4) (Local AND national action needed)</b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Local AND National action needed:</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">In CAP conversations, we focused on local action, and felt the energy around community, collaborative actions we might take. Occasionally, someone would ask - will this change the future? </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">On the other side, some climate activists emphasize the need for federal governments to act to change emissions, saying local actions won’t make a difference.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Our takeaway is that BOTH are necessary. </span>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We need local action for mental health and local quality of life </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">and we need federal action to curb emissions. </span></li>
</ul></li>
</ul><p><b>31 - (Sarah) (5) Project takeaways (Use your power) </b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Headline: Who has the power? </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">This question raised most clearly in a Community Climate Conversation</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We need to re-learn how democracy works, what’s our roles, responsibility as citizens </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Lots of ways to engage! Something for everyone. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Finally, circling back to our inspiration, Katharine Hayhoe - make your actions contagious by talking about them! Help other people feel that taking action is normal.</span></li>
</ul><p><span style="font-weight:400;">Those are our 5 takeaways and I’m going to pass the mic to talk about what we hope will happen next.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">We’ve had the enormous privilege for the last 3 years thanks to IMLS:</span></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">spending time each week thinking about climate change, </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">how it impacts communities, and how communities might respond, </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">And reflecting on our programs, what gives people energy and excitement. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We’ve shared our big takeaways, or a-ha’s, lessons learned. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">From all this, we have 5 wishes, 5 juicy opportunities for the Belfast region going forward: </span></li>
</ul><p><b>32 - (Sarah) What We Hope Will Happen Next </b></p>
<p><b>(Municipal decision-making that integrates climate change impacts & resiliency)</b></p>
<ul><li>Climate can’t be an afterthought. It must be embedded in all decisions made by municipal leaders. </li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Already see this approach in the new draft Comprehensive Plan - adopt it!</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">The Volunteers on the Comp Plan Committee included 22 climate solutions strategies in the city’s new draft Comprehensive plan. This is exactly the approach we’d like to see: climate change being considered in all decisions made by the municipality, from the vehicles municipal staff drive to budge decisions.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Also adopt & implement Belfast CAP! </span></li>
</ul><p><b>33 - (Sarah) What We Hope Will Happen Next (Take advantage of funding)</b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Programs and opportunities are emerging to help individuals and municipalities reduce their use of fossil fuels - funding from state and federal government for weatherization, heating and cooling, electric vehicles and more. Take advantage of these!</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><b>Shout out to the City</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> - joining the State of Maine’s “Community Resilience Partnership,” the state’s program to connect and support municipalities who are taking steps to address climate + applying quickly for a heat pump grant for city buildings.</span></li>
</ul><p><b>34 - (Brenda) What We Hope Will Happen Next (Community driven climate action for Belfast) People- do something join other people inaction </b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">As you all know, efforts come and go, and things evolve… </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">For example, ABCD benefited from past work by the Belfast Area Transition Initiative that created a lot of energy / connections and tangible projects; we hope ABCD sets up future efforts in similar ways - one reason why we’ve archived so much of our work online! </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We’re aware that there are multiple efforts underway already and new groups emerging- we would like to see them work together, or at least know about each other, find opportunities for collaboration and maybe form a network</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We’d like to point out that we can’t afford to be in silos. There’s so much to be done, it’s great to see new efforts pop up! </span></li>
</ul><p><b>35 + 36 - (Brenda) What We Hope Will Happen Next (Join others in action!)</b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">There are so many orgs and projects happening here.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We hope all of you join a group already in action to do something - because we know how good it feels to join others taking action</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">working together alleviates despair</span></li>
</ul><p><b>37 - Personal Reflections</b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><b>Brenda</b><span style="font-weight:400;">:</span>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">A lot more people are talking about Climate Change now than three years ago! We did a great job normalizing the conversation!! Kidding aside, I believe this is true locally and nationally.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">I am proud of the work that the ABCD project did to engage the community on a difficult and multi-faceted topic- Climate Change. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">I have learned a lot about the realities of climate change and the changes needed on every level to reduce our use of fossil fuel and thus our carbon pollution. Sometimes I am discouraged by this, it seems impossible to do. But when I see what others are doing and how many organizations are working on solutions- the youth activists are the most inspiring- I am encouraged. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We have tried to prioritize the solutions in our messaging- the actions you can take to make a difference and overcome despair. The library will continue to be the place to convene conversations and connect people to local climate action.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">I believe it is going to take all of us working together to make these changes- to support each other, find the right solutions and learn to advocate for a climate resilient future.</span></li>
</ul></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><b>Sarah</b><span style="font-weight:400;">: I have a two part reflection. </span>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">First, way back when we responded to the proposal call from IMLS, it was obvious to me and Brenda that a library would be the ideal home for an effort to engage the community in challenging issues and from which to issue an invitation to people to come and be heard, share ideas, etc. Looking back on these three years, I'm more convinced than ever of the central role of libraries in Maine communities facing change. Why we're writing up the "ABCD model" for other communities to follow. I only wish I lived in Belfast or had a grant and relationships in my own community to follow suit! And I just might work to make that happen.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Also - Kudos to Steve Norman, Brenda Harrington, and the library board for saying yes to this opportunity! A library is an obvious home for this work, but this work never promised to be comfortable. The Belfast library leaders deserve a big round of applause for taking this project on. </span></li>
</ul></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">The second part of my reflection I owe to the Belfast community and in particular, something I heard in the Future of Transportation Community Climate Conversation. We had such a great crowd for that event, with so many great ideas for alternative transportation, active transportation, public transportation, ride-sharing. In the middle of this conversation, I realized that all these great ideas had something in common: each of these lower carbon emission ways of getting around take just a tiny bit more time. Not what America was built on - we’re about going faster, farther, getting ahead. We need to adjust our priorities to put our planet, our well-being alongside our financial success, productivity, individual achievement </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Path forward is working together - can’t change culture alone!</span></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><b>Misty</b><span style="font-weight:400;">: </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">I wasn’t thinking a lot about climate change before this project. I didn’t even pay much attention to the news before Covid, honestly. I’ve learned so much about the climate crisis, and become so much more aware, on a daily basis. </span>I’m not sure exactly what I want to do now that the project is coming to a close. I know I want to keep doing something to help. </li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We’ve been talking lately about the rising feeling of fear in people. All summer, so many places in the world are flooding or on fire. I’ve felt that fear and malaise on a personal level with our health in the hot temperatures; our gardens and properties with all the rain. </span></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Personally I have a tendency to put my head down and just pay attention to what’s close to home that I feel like I might have some control over. But I feel an urgency and awareness now that I didn’t before. This isn’t just about me and my corner of the world. And we have to work together to survive this.</span></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">I was looking for pictures recently of local climate action, I came across the Keeping Belfast Maine Beautiful cleanup weekend photos. And I thought to myself, if 800 people can accomplish that much in one weekend, what could be accomplished if that energy and that level of organization were sustained? Community organizing is hard. But could Belfast do something going forward together with that kind of group energy? </span></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">My path forward personally is stay focused on solutions, on feeling hopeful and not despairing, and remember that I live in this community with a lot of really wonderful people who also care. We’re not alone. </span></li>
</ul><p><span style="font-weight:400;"> </span><b>38 - (Brenda) Project Partners</b></p>
<ul><li><span style="font-weight:400;">Thank you to the many local organizations & others we have collaborated with on educational programs and conversations about climate action</span></li>
<li>As your local library, we’re here to continue being a <i>trusted space for community engagement and dialogue.</i></li>
</ul><p><b>39 - (Brenda) Conclusion</b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">In conclusion: Working together is the antidote for despair! </span></li>
</ul><p><b>40 - (Brenda) Thank you</b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Thank you IMLS for the project grant</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Thank you everyone for your support and involvement - and stay in touch!</span></li>
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What made ABCD work?
By Sarah Kirn, Misty Mallar, and Brenda Harrington
August 31, 2023
In the autumn of 2020, the Belfast Free Library was awarded an Accelerating Promising
Practices for Small and Rural Libraries: Community Memory Project grant from the
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The two-year grant to create the All of
Belfast Climate Dialogues (ABCD) project, which we extended to three years, enabled
our small team of Brenda Harrington (Adult Programming Librarian), Sarah Kirn
(community engagement consultant), and Misty Mallar (communications consultant) to
plan, produce, record, and share a series of events and learning materials related to
climate change.
Over three years we learned a lot - from our own processes of trial and error and from
other people and organizations in the region. In the spirit of sharing, we offer our
lessons learned and tips for other communities launching efforts to engage residents in
thinking about and responding to the climate change crisis.
The following ABCD elements were critical to our success:
1. We had a small but dedicated team funded to put time in on the project - starting
with a weekly 90-minute meeting. This gave us the capacity to maintain focus on
the project. Our small group included:
a. A person embedded in the community who already had a public
relationship with the community and a space. In our case, this was a
librarian (Brenda). We think a teacher or leader of an established cultural
or community organization could fill this role of amplifier and convenor as
well.
b. A person with an outside perspective and a network of connections,
skilled at meeting organization and facilitation, with the vision to see the
things that were already happening as unusual/unique and ready for
extension to the whole community, and who recognized the grant
opportunity as applicable to Belfast.
All of Belfast Climate Dialogues (ABCD) is a 2020-2023 project of the Belfast Free Library, funded
by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Learn more: www.belfastlibrary.org/all-of-belfast-climate-dialogues/
1
�c. Our project only began to get traction when we added a communication
specialist who effectively managed social media and produced an
emailed newsletter, and experimented with strategies to engage and
connect with new people within the Belfast community through different
channels and ways of communicating and connecting. Most importantly,
she also listened to the voices who responded to or engaged with our
messages.
2. We had clear goals, in part thanks to having written a proposal to get our project
started! Our goals served as our north star throughout the project, even as we
navigated a pandemic and had to rethink our approach. Our goals helped us stay
focused on increasing the visibility and normalcy of community-based climate
conversations. There’s so much to do to respond to climate change, focus can be
a challenge. Our goals were to:
a. Engage people, ideally a broader representation of people within the
Belfast community.
b. Educate people about climate change and the importance of talking about
it as an act of activism
c. Foster discussion about climate change, its impacts on Belfast, actions to
avoid negative impacts on the community, and possible responses to
those impacts
d. Archive the fears, hopes, concerns, ideas, and priorities shared by
community members in our events, in their own creative contributions to
our online ABCD collection. Documenting what we did was an important
part of this archiving. When appropriate we recorded presentations and
made them available. We collected notes that we shared. We reported out
on events in our regular newsletters. We were careful in how we exercised
our editorial powers in doing so and deliberate about when we reported
what happened versus what it meant to us.
3. We collaborated, particularly with the Belfast Climate Crisis Committee, a
municipal committee charged with advising the Belfast City Council. We
co-hosted almost every one of our events with local organizations from the
Belfast Garden Club to the Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition. We took
opportunities to learn from others (thank you, A Climate To Thrive / Local Leads
All of Belfast Climate Dialogues (ABCD) is a 2020-2023 project of the Belfast Free Library, funded
by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Learn more: www.belfastlibrary.org/all-of-belfast-climate-dialogues/
2
�the Way and all the other great people and organizations from whom we learned!)
and to share what we were doing and learning (from Brenda’s presentation at the
Communities Leading on Climate conference in Augusta in June of 2022 to this
document).
a. We are in a time when experimentation is really required - we are facing
new challenges and need new solutions.
b. We can’t afford to reinvent the wheel! We need to share what works - and
what doesn’t - with others to speed the rate of innovation and help
communities get to strategies that work.
4. We made good and ample use of technology and media to create multiple ways
for people to engage with our programs and messages.
a. We had a website with well curated resources to help people learn about
climate change.
b. We held most of our meetings on Zoom or, as the pandemic weakened, in
person and on Zoom. We recorded our events and shared the recordings
on our website.
c. We used social media - multiple types - to announce events and encourage
attendance.
d. We produced monthly newsletters, which we distributed by email and
printed and displayed at the library.
e. We made use of a low-cost, open source software package (Omeka) to
archive our project materials and community contributions.
f. We hosted events that used art - from storytelling around a campfire to an
art exhibit to a photography contest - to reach new members of the Belfast
community.
Lessons learned:
● We - our team of three and, broadly speaking, the people we engaged - need to
remember/relearn that we live in a democracy “by the people and for the people.”
We have both rights and responsibilities to see that our government works for
everyone. Who has the power to make which decisions? What can citizens do?
What decisions must be made by a municipality, who holds the authority, and
what information or information sources do they consider? We need to have
All of Belfast Climate Dialogues (ABCD) is a 2020-2023 project of the Belfast Free Library, funded
by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Learn more: www.belfastlibrary.org/all-of-belfast-climate-dialogues/
3
�answers to these questions to enable action! Civics lessons are essential to
organizing climate action.
● We didn’t get the unusual suspects, not even all the people engaged in climate
action to attend our meetings and events. We thought about but did not follow
through on plans to make individual or organizational invitations to bring these
folks to the table. Future efforts might consider using a more active recruitment
strategy.
The ABCD program was a phenomenal learning experience for us! We each look forward
to finding new ways to contribute now that ABCD has come to an end.
Sarah, Misty, and Brenda
All of Belfast Climate Dialogues (ABCD) is a 2020-2023 project of the Belfast Free Library, funded
by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Learn more: www.belfastlibrary.org/all-of-belfast-climate-dialogues/
4
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">In the autumn of 2020, the Belfast Free Library was awarded an Accelerating Promising Practices for Small and Rural Libraries: Community Memory Project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The two-year grant to create the </span><a href="https://belfastlibrary.org/all-of-belfast-climate-dialogues/"><span style="font-weight:400;">All of Belfast Climate Dialogues (ABCD) project</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">, which we extended to three years, enabled our small team of Brenda Harrington (Adult Programming Librarian), Sarah Kirn (community engagement consultant), and Misty Mallar (communications consultant) to plan, produce, record, and share a series of events and learning materials related to climate change. </span></p>
<br /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">Over three years we learned a lot - from our own processes of trial and error and from other people and organizations in the region. In the spirit of sharing, we offer our lessons learned and tips for other communities launching efforts to engage residents in thinking about and responding to the climate change crisis. </span></p>
<br /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">The following </span><b>ABCD</b> <b>elements were critical to our success</b><span style="font-weight:400;">:</span></p>
<br /><span style="font-weight:400;">1. We had a </span><b>small but dedicated team funded to put time in on the project</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> - starting with a weekly 90-minute meeting. This gave us the capacity to maintain focus on the project. Our small group included: <br /><br /></span>A person <b>embedded in the community</b><span> who already had a public relationship with the community and a space. In our case, this was a librarian (Brenda). We think a teacher or leader of an established cultural or community organization could fill this role of amplifier and convenor as well.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">A person with an </span><b>outside perspective</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> and a network of connections, skilled at meeting organization and facilitation, with the vision to see the things that were already happening as unusual/unique and ready for extension to the whole community, and who recognized the grant opportunity as applicable to Belfast.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Our project only began to get traction when we added a </span><b>communication specialist</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> who effectively managed social media and produced an emailed newsletter, and experimented with strategies to engage and connect with new people within the Belfast community through different channels and ways of communicating and connecting. Most importantly, she also listened to the voices who responded to or engaged with our messages.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:400;">2. We had </span><b>clear goals</b><span style="font-weight:400;">, in part thanks to having written a proposal to get our project started! Our goals served as our north star throughout the project, even as we navigated a pandemic and had to rethink our approach. Our goals helped us stay focused on increasing the visibility and normalcy of community-based climate conversations. There’s so much to do to respond to climate change, focus can be a challenge. Our goals were to: </span><br /><ol><li style="list-style-type:none;">
<ol><li style="font-weight:400;"><b>Engage</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> people, ideally a broader representation of people within the Belfast community. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><b>Educate</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> people about climate change and the importance of talking about it as an act of activism</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><b>Foster discussion</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> about climate change, its impacts on Belfast, actions to avoid negative impacts on the community, and possible responses to those impacts </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><b>Archive</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> the fears, hopes, concerns, ideas, and priorities shared by community members in our events, in their own creative contributions to our online ABCD collection. Documenting what we did was an important part of this archiving. When appropriate we recorded presentations and made them available. We collected notes that we shared. We reported out on events in our regular newsletters. We were careful in how we exercised our editorial powers in doing so and deliberate about when we reported what happened versus what it meant to us. </span></li>
</ol></li>
</ol><br /><b>3. We collaborated</b><span style="font-weight:400;">, particularly with the Belfast Climate Crisis Committee, a municipal committee charged with advising the Belfast City Council. We co-hosted almost every one of our events with local organizations from the Belfast Garden Club to the Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition. We took opportunities to learn from others (thank you, A Climate To Thrive / Local Leads the Way and all the other great people and organizations from whom we learned!) and to share what we were doing and learning (from Brenda’s presentation at the </span><a href="https://abcdbelfast.omeka.net/items/show/115"><span style="font-weight:400;">Communities Leading on Climate conference</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;"> in Augusta in June of 2022 to this document). </span><br /><ol><li style="list-style-type:none;">
<ol><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We are in a time when experimentation is really required - we are facing new challenges and need new solutions.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We can’t afford to reinvent the wheel! We need to share what works - and what doesn’t - with others to speed the rate of innovation and help communities get to strategies that work.</span></li>
</ol></li>
</ol><br /><span style="font-weight:400;">4. We made good and ample </span><b>use of technology and media</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> to create multiple ways for people to engage with our programs and messages. </span><br /><ol><li style="list-style-type:none;">
<ol><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We had a website with well curated resources to help people learn about climate change.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We held most of our meetings on Zoom or, as the pandemic weakened, in person and on Zoom. We recorded our events and shared the recordings on our website.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We used social media - multiple types - to announce events and encourage attendance. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We produced monthly newsletters, which we distributed by email and printed and displayed at the library. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We made use of a low-cost, open source software package (Omeka) to archive our project materials and community contributions. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We hosted events that used art - from storytelling around a campfire to an art exhibit to a photography contest - to reach new members of the Belfast community. </span></li>
</ol></li>
</ol><br /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">Lessons learned:</span></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We - our team of three and, broadly speaking, the people we engaged - need to remember/relearn that we live in a democracy “by the people and for the people.” We have both rights and responsibilities to see that our government works for everyone. Who has the power to make which decisions? What can citizens do? What decisions must be made by a municipality, who holds the authority, and what information or information sources do they consider? We need to have answers to these questions to enable action! Civics lessons are essential to organizing climate action. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We didn’t get the unusual suspects, not even all the people engaged in climate action to attend our meetings and events. We thought about but did not follow through on plans to make individual or organizational invitations to bring these folks to the table. Future efforts might consider using a more active recruitment strategy.</span></li>
</ul><br /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">The ABCD program was a phenomenal learning experience for us! We each look forward to finding new ways to contribute now that ABCD has come to an end.</span></p>
<br /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">Sarah, Misty, and Brenda</span></p>
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Community Climate Conversation:
Modernizing Our Buildings
Ross Anthony, Buildings and Energy Efficiency Analyst
Maine Governor’s Energy Office
�Maine, New England & U.S. Home Heating Data
�Maine Fuel Oil Consumption, 2030 and 2050 Goals
�Winter Heating
Maine Winter Heating Tips and Resources
www.maine.gov/energy/winter-heating-resources
�Reports
Comprehensive overview of Maine’s climate, building, and energy efficiency goals
�Reports: Exciting News!
Maine ranks 5th in the country and most improved state on state energy efficiency policies
�Energy Efficiency: Weatherization
Weatherization projects are approaching pre-pandemic levels
Legislative and climate goals
• Double the pace of home weatherization,
including increasing low-income
residential units per year
• Weatherized over 9,000 dwellings since
2019
Additional funding from MJRP
• $25 million from the Maine Jobs and
Recovery Plan to Efficiency Maine for
home weatherization specifically targeted
at low- to moderate-income dwellings in
the state
Annual Weathization Projects, Maine
3,000
2,690
2,463
2,500
2,090
2,000
1,869
1,500
1,000
500
0
2019
2020
2021
2022
�Energy Efficiency: Weatherization
Left: Weatherization improvements rebated from 7/1/2020 to 6/30/2022
Right: Weatherization improvements rebated per 100 population from 7/1/2020 to 6/30/2022
�Energy Efficiency: Heat Pumps
Maine is leading in heat pump installation rates
Annual Heat Pump Installations, Maine
Legislative and climate goals
• Installation of 100,000 new heat pumps by
2025 with at least 15,000 heat pumps provided
to income-eligible households
• Installed more than 82,000 new heat pumps
since 2019, Efficiency Maine + MaineHousing
Reduction in oil dependence
• 82,325 heat pumps is equivalent to:
• More than 2,000,000 MMBtu offset per year
40,000
30,000
20,000
11,420
12,765
2019
2020
28,247
29,894
2021
2022
10,000
0
Cumulative Heat Pump Installation, Maine
100,000
90,000
82,326
80,000
70,000
60,000
52,432
50,000
40,000
• More than 350,000 barrels of oil per year
30,000
• More than 15,000,000 gallons of oil per year
10,000
20,000
24,185
11,420
0
2019
2020
2021
2022
�Energy Efficiency: Heat Pumps
Heat pumps are highly efficient and cost-effective
�Energy Efficiency: Heat Pumps
Left: Heat pumps rebated from 7/1/2020 to 6/30/2022
Right: Heat pumps rebated per 100 population from 7/1/2020 to 6/30/2022
�Energy Efficiency
Heat Pump Water Heaters and Building Codes
Heat pump water heaters
• Over 40,000 heat pump water heaters
installed since 2018
• Efficiently provide hot water, help
dehumidify, Efficiency Maine rebates
Building Codes
• The Maine Uniform Building and Energy
Code (MUBEC) is the statewide building
and energy code:
• International Code Council (ICC)
• ASHRAE
• Current is 2015, reviewing ICC 2021
Annual Water Heating Costs, Maine
Electric tank
$693
Oil boiler w/ tankless coil
$587
Propane (LP) storage tank
$571
Propane (LP) instantaneous
$425
Oil boiler w/ indirect tank
$405
Natural gas storage tank
$357
Natural gas instantaneous
$266
Heat pump water heater
$187
$-
$100 $200 $300 $400 $500 $600 $700
Cumulative Heat Pump Water Heater Installations,
Maine (2019-2022)
50,000
40,806
40,000
31,438
30,000
20,655
20,000
10,000
12,113
6,125
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
�Federal Funding
This Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL)
• This Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will rebuild America’s roads, bridges and
rails, expand access to clean drinking water, ensure every American has
access to high-speed internet, tackle the climate crisis, advance
environmental justice, and invest in communities that have too often been
left behind.
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)
• The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 makes the single largest investment
in climate and energy in American history, enabling America to tackle the
climate crisis, advancing environmental justice, securing America’s position
as a world leader in domestic clean energy manufacturing, and putting the
United States on a pathway to achieving the Biden Administration’s climate
goals, including a net-zero economy by 2050.
�Getting Involved
Seek energy efficiency opportunities
• https://www.maine.gov/energy/initiatives/energy-efficiency
• https://www.efficiencymaine.com/
• https://www.mainehousing.org/
• Contact
• Ross Anthony
Buildings and Energy Efficiency Analyst, GEO
ross.anthony@maine.gov
Join the Community Resiliency Partnership
• https://www.maine.gov/future/climate/community-resilience-partnership
• See what your peers in the state are doing: https://www.maine.gov/future/sites/maine.gov.future/files/inlinefiles/CRP%20Awards%20Summary_Fall2022.pdf
• Next round opens in Spring 2023
• Contact
• Brian Ambrette
Senior Climate Resilience Coordinator
brian.ambrette@maine.gov
�Thank You
Ross Anthony
Buildings and Energy Efficiency Analyst
ross.anthony@maine.gov
www.maine.gov/energy
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COMPREHENSIVE
BUILDING SOLUTIONS
PROGRAM
December, 2022
Naomi Albert, A Climate to Thrive Project Manager
�A CLIMATE TO THRIVE
We are Mount Desert Island residents, businesses, and towns
working together to achieve energy independence by 2030 and
make MDI an inspiring epicenter of citizen engagement,
sustainability, and economic vitality.
ACTT was born over potluck picnic
tables in the fall of 2015.
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�COMPREHENSIVE BUILDING SOLUTIONS PROGRAM
will encompass weatherization, solar, heat pumps, heat
pump hot water heaters, & battery storage, while
providing information about electric appliances (such as
induction stoves), & quick-fixes like LED light bulbs, lowflow shower heads & WindowDressers.
�The Need
Buildings are responsible for about 30% of Maine's gross
GHG emissions.
94% of CO2 emissions from residential buildings comes
from burning petroleum products (like fuel oil).
�The Need
58% of homes in Maine rely
on heating oil. This is the
highest in the country. (US
average ~4%)
Maine has the 8th oldest
housing stock in the
country.
Graph from Maine GEO
�The Need
"at current rates, it will take approximately 500 years
to complete whole-building retrofits on all
residences (homes and apartments) and more than
60 years to complete such retrofits on all commercial
buildings [in the United States]." -ACEEE 2020
�The Need
Transitioning to an efficient, electric home is
becoming increasingly economical (due to
increased funding from the federal government),
yet the process can still be daunting and
confusing for homeowners, especially when
considering multiple technologies.
�The Need
Renters have few options for improving the
efficiency, comfort and affordability of their
homes.
�Why a Comprehensive
Approach
Consider how upgrades complement each other & act as
pieces of the puzzle to transition your home in a way that
maximizes benefits.
Make a plan and a budget to avoid being caught off guard by
emergency replacements.
Start at a place that makes sense for your home or budget,
whether that be a larger investment (like solar) or low-hanging
fruit like air sealing or low-flow shower heads.
�Program Goals
Increase the number of heat pump, heat pump hot water
heater, solar, and weatherization projects on MDI.
Increase community understanding of the full suite of
strategies to transition a home off fossil fuels, and the optimal
approach to doing so.
Increase community understanding of the financial incentives
available to support their transition off fossil fuels.
Create a model that can be replicated in other communities.
�Program Components
Website
Workshops
Community Energy Advocates
Partnerships with trusted contractors
�Community Workshop
9:30am-1:30pm on January 14th at the MDI High School
Workshops on
The comprehensive approach for home retrofits
Financing
Opportunity for one-on-one conversations with.
contractors & ACTT staff.
�Energy Advocates
Group of trained community volunteers
Receive basic training on technologies, the
comprehensive approach, & available financing
Initial screening call with participants to route them to the
appropriate contractor
Follow-up with participant & serve as a resource
throughout.
Allow for consistent communication & support for
participants
�Benefits for Participants
Support understanding the comprehensive
approach & where to start
Education to explain and simplify the process
"Hand-holding" by energy advocates
Confidence working with recommended
contractors
�Interested in ACTT?
Sign-up for our newsletter
Join monthly Local Leads the Way Calls
Sign-up for our Statewide Climate Ambassadors
Program (March 2023)
�THANK YOU!
Naomi Albert
December, 2022
naomi@aclimatetothrive.org
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Community Climate Conversation: Modernizing Our Buildings
What Belfast Has Accomplished To-Date
with Energy Efficiency for Buildings
December 8, 2022
City Weatherization Campaign for Belfast homes (2007)
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Weatherized individual homes
Produced training videos
Merged with the all-volunteer Window Dressers program.
City Energy Committee focused on reducing fossil fuel use in City operations to
save money on fuel budget & reduce greenhouse gas emissions (2014 forward)
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3 solar projects - now offsetting 90% of the electricity used in City buildings
Municipal building lighting and street lighting retrofitted
Audits of City buildings for energy-efficiency
Wastewater treatment plant 3-year audit, followed by an upgrade achieving major energy
savings
Window Dressers is a volunteer community organization that promotes energy efficiency in
homes and public buildings by fabricating inside window inserts that seal and insulate.
● In operation in Belfast since 2012 with annual build workshops.
● Over 4,000 inserts for 600 customers have been built to date.
Climate Crisis Committee completed a
Communitywide Inventory of Greenhouse Gas
Emissions (2019)
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Report found that Residential Energy and Commercial
Energy combined account for 50% of emissions in
Belfast
Community Climate Conversations
are co-sponsored by All of Belfast
Climate Dialogues (ABCD), a project
of the Belfast Free Library, and the
City of Belfast Climate Crisis
Committee. Learn more:
www.belfastlibrary.org/abcd-events
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ABCD Team, Belfast Climate Crisis Committee
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December 8, 2022
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Ross Anthony, Buildings and Energy Efficiency Analyst for the Maine Governor’s Energy Office
Naomi Albert, Project Manager , Comprehensive Building Solutions Program at A Climate To Thrive (ACTT)
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On Thursday, December 8th, 2022, ABCD and the Belfast Climate Crisis Committee (CCC) hosted the third in the series of <strong><a href="https://belfastlibrary.org/belfast-climate-action-plan-input/">Community Climate Conversations</a></strong>. These conversations are designed to inform residents and solicit ideas and input for the Climate Action Plan being drafted by the CCC. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:400;">This event focused on the topic of modernizing Belfast’s homes & buildings for energy efficiency for immediate cost savings and to reduce greenhouse gasses. The event took place in the Abbott Room at the Belfast Free Library with an option for Zoom; 25 people attended. <strong><br /><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/pvAF5MlasUU" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">View the recording of this event</a></strong></span><br /><h2>Introduction</h2>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Buildings are responsible for about 30% of Maine’s greenhouse gas emissions, and, according to the </span><a href="https://belfastlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Belfast-GHGI-2022.pdf"><span style="font-weight:400;">recently released report on Greenhouse Gas emissions in Belfast</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">, </span><b>residential and commercial energy combined account for 50% of emissions in Belfast</b><span style="font-weight:400;">. According to the </span><a href="https://www.maine.gov/future/sites/maine.gov.future/files/inline-files/MaineWontWait_2YearProgressReport.pdf"><span style="font-weight:400;">Maine Won’t Wait Two-Year Progress Report (December 2022)</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">, Maine is THE most fuel oil dependent state in the country, and with our older housing stock, there are tremendous opportunities for weatherizing and electrifying our homes and buildings - both for our immediate comfort and cost savings, but also for the greater good.</span></p>
<h2>Major takeaways</h2>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Various comments and contributions in the room reflect </span><b>broader challenges in the state</b><span style="font-weight:400;">, namely: </span> <b></b>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><b>People know they should weatherize their homes, but they do not know exactly what to do</b><span style="font-weight:400;">, what order to do it in, nor are they easily able to navigate the various incentives (rebates, grants, etc.) in place. These good intentions will go to waste if assistance/guidance isn’t more readily available. (Perhaps this is why attendees chose to focus on things we can do together rather than individual actions!)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">There are </span><b>too few contractors</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> trained and staffed to do the weatherization work on homes for all who want it.</span></li>
</ul></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><b>Belfast needs a climate action group or leader.</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> The two most visible groups leading conversations and building awareness are not able to serve in this role: </span>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">The Climate Crisis Committee is an official City committee charged with advising the City Council. It does not have the authority to act independently and therefore cannot lead local action. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Likewise, the ABCD program is a grant-funded project of the Belfast Free Library, itself a municipal institution, and one committed to the mission of "</span><span style="font-weight:400;">helping individuals of all ages pursue independent learning by providing access to timely and useful information in all formats.”</span></li>
</ul></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;"><strong>This is a big, big topic.</strong> We scratched the surface, heard from others farther along than us, and there’s much more to do. </span></li>
</ul><h2>Detailed event summary and description</h2>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">We kicked off the evening with two introductory speakers. Ross Anthony provided a Maine-wide overview on the building efficiency. Naomi Albert shared an example of community-led work in Downeast Maine. </span></p>
<h4><strong>Ross Anthony, the Buildings and Energy Efficiency Analyst for the Maine Governor’s Energy Office, had exciting updates to share on the <a href="https://www.maine.gov/future/sites/maine.gov.future/files/inline-files/MaineWontWait_2YearProgressReport.pdf">state’s progress on its climate action plan, Maine Won’t Wait</a>: </strong></h4>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><b>Weatherization:</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> Maine has weatherized 9,000 dwellings since 2019, and is on track to weatherize 35,000 dwellings by 2030. $25 million in additional funding from the Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan is targeted specifically to weatherizing low- and moderate-income homes through Efficiency Maine. </span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><b>Heat pumps: </b><span style="font-weight:400;">Maine is a national leader in heat pump installations. The stated goal in the Maine Won’t Wait action plan is to install 100,000 heat pumps by 2025, with 15,000 of those in income-eligible households. Since 2019, 82,325 heat pumps have been installed via Efficiency Maine and Maine Housing. That’s equivalent to offsetting more than 350,000 barrels of oil per year!</span></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><b>Heat pump hot water heaters:</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> Since 2018, over 40,000 heat pump water heaters were installed in Maine (these units are three to four times as efficient as electric hot water heaters!)</span></li>
</ul><p><span style="font-weight:400;">The Governor’s Energy Office has put together a </span><a href="https://www.maine.gov/energy/winter-heating-resources"><b>2022-2023 Winter Heating Guide</b></a><span style="font-weight:400;"> with tips & resources to help Mainers save money and utilize available programs. Ross encouraged us to use and share this guide with others who may benefit from it. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Ross also reported that information is still coming in daily regarding federal funding from the recently passed </span><b>Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL)</b><span style="font-weight:400;">. These will include a lot of funding through many programs, including help for individuals through the IRA with additional federal rebates for heat pumps and property tax credits for weatherization. These programs will likely launch in late 2023. </span></p>
<p><b>There are two immediate actions Belfast and its citizens can take:</b></p>
<ol><li><b>Seek energy efficiency opportunities for our homes & buildings:</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> Take advantage of the </span><a href="https://www.maine.gov/energy/initiatives/energy-efficiency"><span style="font-weight:400;">rebates, incentives, and programs</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;"> available through </span><a href="https://www.efficiencymaine.com/"><span style="font-weight:400;">Efficiency Maine</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;"> and </span><a href="https://mainehousing.org/"><span style="font-weight:400;">MaineHousing</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;"> to improve efficiency of residential, municipal, and commercial buildings. </span></li>
</ol><ol start="2"><li><b>Join the </b><a href="http://maine.gov/future/climate/community-resilience-partnership"><b>Community Resiliency Partnership</b></a><b>:</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> This program of the Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future (GOPIF) allows communities to establish their own goals and secure resources (including grants) to pursue priority actions. Belfast can </span><a href="https://www.maine.gov/future/sites/maine.gov.future/files/inline-files/CRP%20Awards%20Summary_Fall2022.pdf"><span style="font-weight:400;">see what over 70 towns and cities in the State are doing with their Community Resilience Partnership Fall 2022 Awards</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">. The next round of applications will open in Spring 2023.</span></li>
</ol><p><strong>You can <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-net/61177/archive/files/6b5e95d55a7808f110ac35a38187f443.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAI3ATG3OSQLO5HGKA&Expires=1672272000&Signature=tS4DCsUGr3o9lEi2K3%2FXAaIoNyk%3D">view Ross’s slide presentation here</a>.<br /><br /></strong></p>
<hr /><h4><strong>Our second speaker, Naomi Albert, is Project Manager of the soon-to-be-launched (January 2023) “Comprehensive Building Solutions Program” at <a href="https://www.aclimatetothrive.org/">A Climate To Thrive (ACTT)</a> on Mount Desert Island. </strong></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">A Climate To Thrive arose from community potluck discussions, and it is now a non-profit with a vision to achieve energy independence for MDI by 2030 - and to inspire and collaborate with other community-based climate action efforts in Maine. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Naomi gave an overview of ACTT’s soon-to-be-launched </span><a href="https://www.aclimatetothrive.org/buildingsolutions"><b>Comprehensive Building Solutions Program</b></a><span style="font-weight:400;">, which pulls together all their previous building-related efficiency efforts into one program: weatherization, solar, heat pumps, heat pump hot water heaters, battery storage, info about electric appliances, and quicker fixes like LED light bulbs and low-flow shower heads. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Although transitioning to an efficient, electric home is becoming increasingly economical with more federal assistance in the works, the process can still be daunting and confusing for homeowners. Recognizing this, ACTT has come up with some inspiring strategies and approaches:</span></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><b>Providing assistance to homeowners to make a comprehensive plan</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> for transitioning their home - making a plan and a budget so as not to be caught off guard by emergency replacements. Homeowners are encouraged to start in a place that makes sense for their home and budget - whether it be a large investment like solar or low-hanging fruit like air-sealing. In addition, ACTT provides expert advice on the most efficient sequence for making improvements. For example,, homeowners are advised to air-seal a drafty home first so they can choose the right size heat pump; or and plan their electric vehicle and heat pump electricity needs prior to installing solar. </span></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><b>Training Community Energy Advocates:</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> These volunteers receive basic training on technologies, the comprehensive approach, and available financing to prepare them to support others in navigating energy improvements. Volunteers are not asked to be energy experts, but to encourage and assist fellow community members in taking steps towards energy efficiency.</span></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><b>Home Improvement Campaigns with trusted contractors: </b><span style="font-weight:400;">ACTT has developed a cooperative model for multiple homeowners to work with a vetted contractor and used it successfully for solar panel installation and home weatherization. ACTT chooses a contractor and educates homeowners regarding the work the contractor might do, and makes a list of committed customers. The contractor benefits from working with knowledgeable customers and scheduling multiple similar projects in a discrete region, and in turn shares that benefit in savings with homeowners. </span></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><b>Creating a</b> <b>model that can be replicated </b><span style="font-weight:400;">in other communities. </span></li>
</ul><p><span style="font-weight:400;">Naomi invited attendees to learn more about </span><b>ACTT’s </b><a href="https://www.aclimatetothrive.org/buildingsolutions"><b>upcoming Building Solutions Fair on Saturday, January 14th, 2023 </b></a><span style="font-weight:400;">at MDI High School, including workshops and conversations with energy experts and contractors.</span></p>
<p><b>If you’d like to learn or do more:</b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><strong><a href="https://www.aclimatetothrive.org/">Sign up for ACTT’s newsletter</a></strong></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><strong><a href="https://www.aclimatetothrive.org/localleadstheway">Attend ACTT’'s monthly Local Leads the Way calls</a></strong><span style="font-weight:400;"> for people “engaged in community-driven, solutions-focused climate action” (ABCD and Climate Crisis Committee members have joined these calls and found them informative)</span></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><a href="https://www.aclimatetothrive.org/ambassadors"><span style="font-weight:400;"><strong>Join the Statewide Climate Ambassadors Program</strong></span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">, starting in March 2023.</span></li>
</ul><p><strong>You can <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-net/61177/archive/files/32334ed735f15ddfda265f4244ceb597.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAI3ATG3OSQLO5HGKA&Expires=1672272000&Signature=8HmH%2FOXiROPh5IDhpnN4clxzhQs%3D">view Naomi’s slide presentation here</a>. </strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;"> </span></p>
<h2>Community discussion: "things we can do together"</h2>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">After the two presentations and a Q&A session with the speakers, attendees elected to start our discussion by brainstorming ideas for things people can work on together with the intention of informing the Climate Action Plan draft and inspiring immediate action. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">In the category of “</span><b>things we can do together,” ideas included:</b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><a href="https://windowdressers.org/"><b>Window Dressers</b></a> <span style="font-weight:400;">- a community-based year-round non-profit volunteer organization that builds low-cost insulating custom window inserts</span></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><b>Belfast needs a Weatherization Campaign </b><a href="https://www.aclimatetothrive.org/buildingsolutions"><b>modeled on ACTT’s new program</b></a><b>!</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> Information about it could be shared door-to-door; volume discounts could be worked out with contractors. Needed: Volunteers, partnering vetted contractors, communications.</span></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><b>“Green Homes Tours”</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> to showcase efficiency improvements. Include homes representing all housing in Belfast, from mobile homes to prefab to more costly homes and renovations (think Belfast Open Garden Tours; find inspiration from the </span><a href="https://nwgreenhometour.org/"><span style="font-weight:400;">Northwest Green Homes Tour</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">). Needed: Volunteers to identify and recruit appropriate homes to showcase.</span></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><b>Active outreach to folks whose homes are in great need of weatherization.</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> There are real privacy concerns to protect; attendees were interested in proactive efforts to find and serve those in need without violating privacy. Perhaps crowd-source this list of names?</span></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><b>Outreach </b><span style="font-weight:400;">efforts to share opportunities, information on rebates, and advice</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">through high school, farmers market, Climate Symposium attendees, churches</span></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><b>Consider and review building codes</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> to ensure that new construction is being held to appropriately strict efficiency standards. (Currently, the</span> <a href="https://www.maine.gov/dps/fmo/building-codes"><span style="font-weight:400;">Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code (MUBEC)</span></a> <span style="font-weight:400;">requires adherence to 2015 International Codes and applies in all Maine towns with a population of at least 4,000 people. Towns may elect to implement more stringent standards. Significant challenges exist in workforce availability, workforce training, and code enforcement.)</span></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><b>Advocate for a non-profit inspector system</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> to support more effective code enforcement at a lower cost per municipality; explore sharing a code enforcement agent among multiple towns or even Waldo County-wide?</span></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><b>Launch a citizen action group to complement the Climate Crisis Committee</b><span style="font-weight:400;">. This idea arose when our discussion clarified that the Climate Crisis Committee is an official City committee charged with advising the City Council. It does not have the authority to act independently and therefore cannot lead local action. Likewise, the ABCD program is a grant-funded project of the Belfast Free Library, itself a municipal institution, and one committed to the mission of "helping individuals of all ages pursue independent learning by providing access to timely and useful information in all formats.” Belfast needs a person/group to lead action. </span><a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/maine/maine-climate-action-teams"><span style="font-weight:400;">"Climate and Community Action Teams" of the Sierra Club</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;"> could serve as potential model.</span></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;"><strong>Help residents make sense</strong> of the growing array of incentives and opportunities and prioritize the efficiency measures so it’s easier for people to take action. </span></li>
</ul><h2>Community discussion: "things we'd like the Belfast (the City) to do"</h2>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Our discussion next turned to </span><b>“things we'd like Belfast (the City) to do” </b><span style="font-weight:400;">and like to see in the Climate Action Plan</span><b>:</b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><b>Hire a Sustainability Director</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> - and consider sharing this person/position with nearby towns to share knowledge and share cost?</span></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Integrate climate considerations into </span><b>Comprehensive Plan</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> (this effort is currently underway)</span></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Explore </span><b>regional collaboration </b><span style="font-weight:400;">such as the Climate Resilience Partnership program the State of Maine supports.</span></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><b>Set a specific local goal</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> and time frame for greenhouse gas emission reduction in Belfast, e.g.: “Cut greenhouse gas emissions by xx% by the year 20xx.” </span></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;"><strong>Rework the Belfast budget</strong> to reflect climate impact risks, value of long-term investment, etc. For example, structure the budget such that when infrastructure is damaged by climate-strengthened weather events, we rebuild to withstand future events of similar or greater strength rather than merely replacing what was damaged. </span></li>
</ul><p><span style="font-weight:400;">The group also wanted answers/clarity on the following questions: </span></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><b>What does Belfast need to do to join the </b><a href="http://maine.gov/future/climate/community-resilience-partnership"><b>Community Resilience Partnership</b></a><b>?</b></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">What can Belfast do </span><b>outside </b><span style="font-weight:400;">of Maine's Community Resilience Partnership? </span></li>
</ul><hr /><strong><strong><a href="https://youtu.be/pvAF5MlasUU" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">View the recording of this event</a></strong></strong><hr /><h2><strong><br /></strong>Final event in Community Climate Conversations series coming up</h2>
<strong><b>One more Community Climate Conversation is planned, tentatively for early February 2023, on the topic of Transportation. <br /><br /></b><a href="https://belfastlibrary.org/abcd-events"><b>Learn more about this upcoming event.</b></a><br /></strong><hr />
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Transportation In Belfast Now
• Belfast, and surrounding communities, lack effective transportation options available in more
densely developed communities. (Comprehensive Plan Draft, 2021)
• The main mode of transportation in Belfast are private automobiles.
• Belfast, like all of the US, has evolved to support auto transport, to the detriment of walking and
bicycling as alternatives (weather permitting). More about that later!
• Quasi-Public Transport options include;
• Mid-Coast Transportation (WCAP) offers an intra-city Belfast Downtown Area Shuttle (DASH) that operates M/W/F 7
times/day for a low fee structure.
• Mid Coast Transportation offers Inter-city Flex bus service on a once daily basis to and from surrounding towns, with
a one-way fare ranging from $2.00 to $3.50.
• Bicycling, during 6 months of the year, is growing in popularity.
• Within the Bypass, there are marked bike lanes on major streets.
• Bike access from the outlying areas is complicated by Rt1/3.
�Future Transportation Options
• Electric Cars and Buses
• Near term Federal/State Purchase incentive plans (Efficiency Maine, Grants)
• Anticipated cost reductions as automakers transition and compete.
• Wide spread adoption must be enabled by increased electric utility expansion; home chargers and heat
pumps will likely double electric usage.
• Wide spread public charger installations
• Development of ‘Green’ fuels: hydrogen and biofuels for hybrid vehicles (long distance heavy
transport).
• Expansion of low fee/no fee public bus transport for intra-city, flex, and commuter routes (MidCoast Transportation)
• State/City Trans Pass program for low income.
• Employer financial support for worker ride share programs.
• Reconfiguring Belfast to promote walking and bicycling.
• Expand bike lanes.
• Over/Underpasses for major route crossings where signaling is not permissible.
• Electric Bike group purchase program for cost reduction.
• Expand Intra-City Rail network (Rockland & Bangor Amtrak spurs).
�Transportation Policy Initiatives
• Maine Electric School Bus Program (https://www.maine.gov/doe/transportation/cleanbus)
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US EPA Rebate of $375K/ bus + $20K for a charger if on Priority List
Belfast RSU71 is not on priority list ?????
Non Priority schools eligible for up to $250K/bus
Range: flat ground& 65F = 100 miles class 7
• Efficiency Maine Electric Car Rebates (BEV & PHEB)
• https://www.efficiencymaine.com/electric-vehicle-rebates
• For eligible vehicles:
$73,000, in the case of an eligible pickup truck or commercial van with an EPA-rated range of 300 miles or more;
$65,000, in the case of an eligible pickup truck or commercial van with an EPA-rated range of less than 300 miles; or
$50,000, for all other eligible
• Large Transportation Infrastructure Projects
• The (Federal) Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 (Public Law 117-103) appropriated $200,798,267 in Transit
Infrastructure Grants for Community Project Funding, also known as Congressionally Directed Spending.
• Mine/Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding
• Maine DOT Village Partnership Initiative
�Transportation Policy Initiatives Continued
• The (Federal)Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA)
• $234M over 5 years by 2024 for public transportation improvements in Maine.
• https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bipartisan-infrastructure-law/
• $5M from Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan to expand public transportation and ride sharing programs
• Enhanced Mobility of Seniors & Individuals with Disabilities - Section 5310
• Federal Transit Administration
• Eligible Recipients: States and designated recipients are direct recipients; eligible subrecipients include private
nonprofit organizations, states or local government authorities, or operators of public transportation.
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buses and vans
wheelchair lifts, ramps, and securement devices
transit-related information technology systems, including scheduling/routing/one-call systems
mobility management programs
acquisition of transportation services under a contract, lease, or other arrangement
volunteer driver programs
building an accessible path to a bus stop, including curb-cuts, sidewalks, accessible pedestrian signals or other accessible features
incremental cost of providing same day service or door-to-door service
https://www.transit.dot.gov/funding/grants/enhanced-mobility-seniors-individuals-disabilities-section-5310
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The Future of Active
Transit in Belfast
By Cara Harshman
Belfast Pedestrian, Biking & Hiking Committee
�What is Active Transit?
Active Transit (AT) is any human
powered mode of transportation:
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Walking
Biking
Operating a wheelchair or other
ability device
Rollerblading
Skateboarding
Cross country skiing
Snow shoeing
�How would you distribute $1 in funding to improve AT in Maine?
MDOT data
from:
4 public
meetings, 12
stakeholder
meetings,
>1,600 survey
responses,
>300 online
comments
�Maine’s Statewide Active Transit Plan
Vision: MaineDOT will maintain, improve,
and expand safe AT options statewide by
leveraging investments in infrastructure to
improve pedestrian and bicyclist safety;
expand mobility; support economic
development; reduce greenhouse gas
emissions; and enhance community
vibrancy, quality of life, and public health for
Maine people and visitors alike.
���Where does MDOT go from here?
→ Jan 30, 2023: public
comments on the plan
closed
→ Winter/Spring ‘23:
revisions and DOT
meetings with
stakeholders such as:
bikemaine.org
Read the plan to see goals 3-5
�Q: How does Belfast benefit from the Statewide
Active Transit Plan?
A: We create our own Pedestrian & Bicycle
(Active Transit) Master Plan.
�What’s a Active Transit aka Pedestrian & Bicycle Master Plan?
It’s a vision of what the City of
Belfast could look like and a plan
to implement that vision.
�Pedestrian Biking & Hiking Committee 2023 recommendations to the City
Council
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Retain a professional planner to assist in drafting an official
comprehensive bike/ped transportation plan (see attached letter).
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Adopt a Complete Streets Policy for Belfast. Building on extensive
studies and reports produced by this committee in prior years, we
recommend that the Council adopt a Complete Streets policy for all
renovation, maintenance, and new construction (see attached Draft
Complete Streets Policy).
3.
Address critical accessibility and safety concerns at the following
intersections (feasible on a very low budget, using curb bulb treatment
(see Exhibit D)...
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Continue to work with MDOT to improve pedestrian and cyclist safety at
priority Rt. 1 crossings at Rt. 52, Rt. 3, Waldo Ave., and Congress St.
See more on our website: https://www.cityofbelfast.org/105/Pedestrian-Biking-Hiking-Committee
�Other towns in Maine with a Ped/Bike Master Plan
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Bangor Area Plan – 2019
Brunswick Plan – 2020
Portland
Kittery -2022
Gray – 2018
Gorham – 2017
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Bristol – 2009
Wiscasset – 2010
Newcastle-Damariscotta –
2015
Boothbay – 2012
Waldoboro – 2011
�Examples of what we’d see in a plan
�“Belfast is ready!” -Dakota, Active Transit Planner for MDOT
We need your participation!
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Sign up for Walk & Roll Belfast, a new community group of AT enthusiasts
Advocate for Active Transit infrastructure at City Council meetings (1st and
3rd Tuesdays each month at 7pm)
Bike, walk and roll together!
What else?
�Thank You!!
Email me:
harshmancara@gmail.com
�The Pedestrian & Bicycle Master Plan will accomplish the
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Assess existing infrastructure assets and shortcomings.
Identify likely areas of future development (in coordination with the city’s
Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Ordinance) and plan multimodal and transportation
to serve those areas.
Identify potential sites for recreational trails and active transportation links between
population centers and outdoor recreation.
Coordinate events to engage residents, city officials, and city staff, gauge public
opinion, and develop a vision for the future of walking, running, and riding in Belfast.
Produce a citywide map and prioritized list of recommended improvements and new
facilities.
Produce an implementation plan, including sources of potential implementation
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Community Climate Conversation: The Future of Transportation in Belfast & Waldo County
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February 9, 2023
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">ABCD and the Belfast Climate Crisis Committee (CCC) hosted the fourth in a series of </span><a href="https://belfastlibrary.org/belfast-climate-action-plan-input/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span style="font-weight:400;">Community Climate Conversations</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;"> on February 9, 2023. These conversations are designed to inform residents and solicit ideas for the Climate Action Plan being drafted by the CCC. “The Future of Transportation in Belfast & Waldo County” event took place in the Abbott Room at the Belfast Free Library. 13 people attended on Zoom and 24 people came in person, despite what turned into an icy night for traversing the roads and sidewalks.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfHM90uJ-SA&t=2137s" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><b>View the recording of the event</b></a></p>
<h2><b>Overview</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;"><strong>Transportation accounts for 49% of carbon emissions</strong>, both </span><a href="https://belfastlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Belfast-GHGI-2022.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span style="font-weight:400;">in Belfast</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;"> and </span><a href="https://www.maine.gov/future/sites/maine.gov.future/files/inline-files/MaineWontWait_2YearProgressReport.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span style="font-weight:400;">statewide</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">. Reducing carbon pollution from transportation here in Belfast and Waldo County will certainly require a variety of approaches. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">This report contains reflections on our event from the ABCD team, followed by short summaries of the comments from:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Fred Bowers, chair of the Climate Crisis Committee, </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Jerry Brand, Climate Crisis Committee member, and </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Cara Harshman from the Belfast Pedestrian, Biking & Hiking Committee.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">We also share highlights from our lively community discussion. <br /><br /></span></p>
<h2><b>Major takeaways from the evening</b></h2>
<ol><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Our team and audience members </span><b>noticed this conversation had more energy and excitement</b><span style="font-weight:400;">. People seemed excited about the ideas, eager for these changes, and not only because of their lower carbon pollution. The convergence of the Pedestrian, Biking & Hiking Committee’s agenda and the service the Waldo Community Action Partners (Waldo CAP) provides, along with the CCC, added a lot of energy. </span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><b>Once again, the need for leadership was obvious</b><span style="font-weight:400;">. A leader who might coordinate among the people and organizations who are in action could help us all feel momentum and maximize the impact of each action. We hope that someone or some people in our community take advantage of the </span><a href="https://www.aclimatetothrive.org/climate-action-hub#ambassadors" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span style="font-weight:400;">Climate Ambassadors training being offered by A Climate to Thrive</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">The conversation afterward was really thought provoking.</span><b> The ABCD team loved that we talked about a "culture shift" in thinking about the future of transportation</b><span style="font-weight:400;">. It made us realize that by improving bike lanes and safe walking, as well as public transportation (including ride sharing) we can do a lot to reduce individuals' reliance on gas powered cars. We did find it interesting that no one brought up electric vehicles (EVs) or adding EV charging stations in Belfast/Waldo County! We do think this is an important part of the mix to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.</span></li>
</ol><p><span style="font-weight:400;">What follows are highlights of the evening’s presentations and discussion.<br /><br /></span></p>
<h2><b>Updates from the Climate Crisis Committee from Fred Bowers </b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">The chair of the Belfast Climate Crisis Committee (CCC), Fred Bowers, introduced the evening with some exciting updates. With the support of the CCC working with city grant-writer Thomas Kittredge, </span><b>the City is currently in the process of applying for </b><a href="https://www.maine.gov/future/climate/community-resilience-partnership" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><b>Maine’s Community Resilience Partnership</b></a><b> program</b><span style="font-weight:400;">. Joining this program will make Belfast eligible for significant no-match grant monies for projects to help reduce carbon emissions, transition to clean energy, and become more resilient to climate change effects. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">As part of the process, the City needs to </span><b>adopt a municipal resolution</b><span style="font-weight:400;">. It also will </span><b>complete a self-evaluation </b><span style="font-weight:400;">to review what has already been accomplished in Belfast (municipal solar installations, building energy audits, electric vehicle chargers and more) and to help identify additional opportunities and priorities for community action.</span></p>
<p><b>Public input to help identify Belfast’s top priorities </b><span style="font-weight:400;">is a required part of the application process to the Maine Community Resilience Partnership. </span></p>
<p><b><a href="https://www.cityofbelfast.org/calendar.aspx?CID=14" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Please stay tuned for the date of the City’s public workshop session, and come make your voice heard!</a><br /><br /></b></p>
<h2><b>Current status of transportation in City of Belfast and ideas for future changes from Jerry Brand</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">CCC member Jerry Brand presented an overview of the current state of transportation in Belfast and Waldo County, and some </span><b>future transportation options, including electric cars and buses, low-fee/no-fee public bus transport, reconfiguring Belfast to promote walking and bicycling, and exploring intra-city railway</b><span style="font-weight:400;">. He reviewed a number of current </span><b>policy initiatives </b><span style="font-weight:400;">including the </span><a href="https://www.maine.gov/doe/transportation/cleanbus" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span style="font-weight:400;">Maine Clean School Bus Program</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">, </span><a href="https://www.efficiencymaine.com/electric-vehicle-rebates/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span style="font-weight:400;">Efficiency Maine electric vehicle rebates</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">, and other Maine and federal initiatives to improve public transportation, expand ride sharing, and support enhanced mobility for seniors and those with disabilities. </span></p>
<p><b>Please see additional details in Jerry’s slides. </b><em>(They are shown in the slider at the top of this page along with the event photos - note, you can use the arrows at upper right corner to expand the view).</em><b><br /><br /></b></p>
<h2><b>“Belfast is ready!” - The future of Active Transit in Belfast with Cara Harshman of the Pedestrian, Biking & Hiking Committee</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Cara Harshman shared that the Pedestrian, Biking & Hiking Committee presented their annual report to the City on February 7. </span><span style="font-weight:400;">The Committee makes a strong case for the value of having a comprehensive vision that can guide action and infrastructure change as opportunity and funding allow.</span> <b>Their key recommendation is that the City hire a professional planner to help draft an official comprehensive pedestrian/bike plan.</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> See the </span><a href="https://www.cityofbelfast.org/105/Pedestrian-Biking-Hiking-Committee" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span style="font-weight:400;">full set of 2023 Pedestrian, Biking & Hiking Committee priorities</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">, including creation of a “</span><a href="https://www.maine.gov/mdot/completestreets/"><span style="font-weight:400;">Complete Streets Policy</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">”, and addressing specific problem areas such as the Rt. 52/Rt. 1 crossing. </span><a href="https://belfastme.new.swagit.com/videos/207266" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span style="font-weight:400;">Watch the Committee’s presentation to the City Council</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;"> (starting at 24:00 minute mark in the recording).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">The Maine Department of Transportation is working on a </span><a href="https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/27763afe326645c285cb1d726ee68cae" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span style="font-weight:400;">Statewide Active Transportation Plan</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">, and State planner Dakota Hewlett recently told the Ped/Bike Committee that “Belfast is ready!” - we are well-positioned to create our own plan to seek project funding. </span><b>A Belfast active transit plan would include</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> visual mapping of problematic areas; a high level map of connectivity through the entire city; and ways to create safe, accessible ways to get from places like the YMCA to the high school. It would also include low-cost ideas such as:</span></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">curb bump-outs (a t</span><span style="font-weight:400;">raffic calming</span><span style="font-weight:400;"> measure which widens the </span><span style="font-weight:400;">sidewalk</span><span style="font-weight:400;"> for a short distance, reducing the crossing distance and allowing pedestrians and drivers to see each other when parked vehicles would otherwise block visibility</span><span style="font-weight:400;">),</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">painted intersections, and </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">flex posts (flexible bollards, a low-cost traffic lane delineation tool).</span></li>
</ul><p><span style="font-weight:400;">The Ped/Bike Committee, with the City Council’s enthusiastic support, is </span><b>pursuing exciting grants </b><span style="font-weight:400;">that would provide a 50/50 match from the State and the City for $50,000 to hire the professional planner </span><b>to create the master plan</b><span style="font-weight:400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">A new group called “</span><b>Walk & Roll Belfast</b><span style="font-weight:400;">” is also being created to help citizens band together to create more active transit in our community. <strong>SIGN UP to learn more: send your email address to <a href="mailto:walkandrollbelfast@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">walkandrollbelfast@gmail.com</a> to be added to the list!</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Cara, echoed by several other attendees in the room, noted that we need folks to advocate for more active transit, and the </span><b>City Council wants to hear from everyone! </b><span style="font-weight:400;">You can </span><b>share public comments </b><span style="font-weight:400;">at the beginning of every meeting (1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month at 7PM), or </span><a href="https://www.cityofbelfast.org/166/Mayor-City-Council" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span style="font-weight:400;">email, mail, or drop off your comments to the Council</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">. </span></p>
<p><b>See Cara’s slides</b><b> for more.<br /></b><em>(They are shown in the slider at the top of this page along with the event photos - note, you can use the arrows at upper right corner to expand the view).</em><b><br /></b></p>
<p><a href="https://youtu.be/MfHM90uJ-SA" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><b>Watch her presentation</b></a><b>, which begins at the 26:00 minute mark in the YouTube recording.<br /><br /></b></p>
<h2><b>Community discussion highlights</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">After Cara’s presentation, attendees largely focused on the concept she outlined, </span><b>“active transit”</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> (defined as “any mode of human powered transportation” - walking, biking, wheelchair or other ability device, skateboarding, etc.). We talked about rethinking our expectations and habits about how we get around, and how we might work toward a </span><b>“diversity of mobility options” to serve different populations</b><span style="font-weight:400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Here are some highlights from the engaged attendee discussion (which begins at approximately 46:00 in the </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfHM90uJ-SA&t=2876s"><span style="font-weight:400;">recording</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">). Photos of our community discussion flip chart notes are also included on this page. </span></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;"><strong>Boating</strong> - transport by water! </span><b>Please give your input on the </b><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScJ2cC_F2d5aMKdEpEOIAvRQl_M6TWf0SQrTGs-dQPyOMZmpA/viewform" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><b>Belfast Harbor Small Boat Survey</b></a><span style="font-weight:400;"> - planning for small boat access & tie-ups for commuters </span></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Looking back on the</span><b> community layouts of 100 years ago</b><span style="font-weight:400;">, with clustered patchwork of “service nodes” within a certain distance, meeting people’s needs for stores, milling, etc. (Think of all the place names like “__ Mill”, or “__ Corner”). Could some version of this have a place in current day zoning - perhaps “mini cities” within 15 minutes walking distance of each other? </span></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><b>Municipalities can support year-round active transportation (not just car-centric): </b><span style="font-weight:400;">Adjust road care regimen to include ped/bike transportation (e.g. not plowing snow into ped/bike lanes)</span></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Think about transportation for us… and transportation for tourists. Take note of the </span><b>“Slow tourism </b><span style="font-weight:400;">/ slow travel” trend.</span></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><b>Idea to close some city streets to car traffic in summer? </b><span style="font-weight:400;">Maybe closing one of the parallel streets? Experiment with temporary setups / demonstrations to see what works. Help tourists get around with public transit.</span></li>
</ul><ul><li><strong>Ridesharing community</strong></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><b>Coastal ferries?</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> E.g. Belfast to Castine</span></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Making intersections safer and more beautiful with </span><b>vegetated curbs / rain gardens, like </b><a href="http://www.saveitlancaster.com/rain-gardens-along-w-james-st/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><b>Lancaster, Pennsylvania’s green streets conversion projects</b></a><b>.</b></li>
</ul><ul><li><strong>Electric bikes & golf carts</strong></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><b>Idling </b><span style="font-weight:400;">- need a city ordinance, and signage and enforcement. Educate people that newer vehicle engines do not need to be warmed up in winter.</span></li>
</ul><ul><li><strong>Build relationships with the State DOT.</strong></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><a href="https://waldocap.org/WCAP-programs/transportation-services/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><b>Waldo Community Action Partners</b></a><span style="font-weight:400;"> director of transportation, Michael Hallundbaek, was a passionate advocate for accessible public transportation. He is also extremely knowledgeable about new technology like "</span><a href="https://www.transit.dot.gov/coordinating-council-access-and-mobility" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><b>coordinated transit</b></a><span style="font-weight:400;">" tools that help to optimize the number of passengers served per trip. </span><b>He offered to serve as a community resource </b><span style="font-weight:400;">and share his extensive knowledge about funding, management, and system of transit in this country. He also shared that </span><b>Waldo CAP is working on electrifying its own bus fleet</b><span style="font-weight:400;">.</span></li>
</ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><a href="https://gomaine.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><b>GO MAINE</b></a><span style="font-weight:400;"> is a FREE program of the MaineDOT and the Maine Turnpike Authority, and it offers </span><b>rewards for taking greener trips! </b><span style="font-weight:400;">From the website: “WE’RE ABOUT HELPING MAINERS UNDERSTAND THEIR TRANSPORTATION OPTIONS AND SAVING COMMUTERS MONEY – The GO MAINE trip planner helps Mainers search for their transportation options for all trip types. GO MAINE provides ride matching for carpoolers, rewards people for taking green commutes and offers the Emergency Ride Home Benefit for our members.” </span></li>
</ul><p><span style="font-weight:400;">And finally, a closing invitation from Fred Bowers, Climate Crisis Committee chair: </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;"><strong>Please plan to</strong> </span><b>attend the meeting for public input on the City’s Maine Community Resilience Partnership application </b><span style="font-weight:400;">(date TBD); and the Comprehensive Plan meetings. The Council would like to hear everyone’s input.<br /><br /></span></p>
<h2><b>Conclusions</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">At the end of the evening, we went back through our flip chart notes <em>(see photos in the image slider at the top of the page)</em> and identified all the things that people can do now. The majority of ideas had at least some element that people can do now, whether it’s going to city councilors to advocate for the idea or taking it upon themselves to reduce trips or share trips. Looking back on the night’s conversations, this is a huge topic with lots of room for more discussion! It was an exciting community conversation that was both visionary and action-focused. <br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfHM90uJ-SA&t=2137s" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><b>View the recording of the event</b></a><br /></span></p>
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<strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVu7nTisGj4" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Watch the event recording</a></strong><br /><br />On Wednesday, July 19, 2023 at 6 PM, the Peace & Social Justice Forum/Waldo County, in coordination with ABCD and the Possibility Alliance, hosted <a href="https://peterkalmus.net/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Dr. Peter Kalmus</a>, an award winning author and climate scientist from NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in California. He has said that "Global Warming is happening with a rapidity that leaves me speechless" and is dismayed that our government is not placing this existential threat at the center of the challenges that we are facing. Moving beyond fossil fuels and how we as individuals can work toward this goal, while living fulfilled lives is the question he and his family have been grappling with. <br /><br />Dr. Kalmus shared his personal journey in this essential work, and discussed how we can respond as individuals both locally, and in collective ways to move us toward a fossil free future. His award winning book is titled <em>"Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution."</em> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVu7nTisGj4" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">View the event recording here</a>.<br /><br />Following the presentation on July 19, Dr. Kalmus will join other climate activists for two community circles to further the conversation about practical ways to support a just transition and increase community resilience in this time of climate crisis. Both circles are open to the public and will be held at the Possibility Alliance, 85 Edgecomb Road, Belfast on Sunday July23, and Saturday August 5, from 4-6 pm. All are invited.<br /><br /><em>Dr. Peter Kalmus, who speaks on his own behalf, is a climate scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is the recipient of NASA’s Early Career Achievement Medal, and NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal. Peter has a B.Sc. in physics from Harvard and a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia. His research interests include improving future projections of coral reef decline from increasing ocean heat and extreme humid heat. Peter is also a climate activist. He engages in climate civil disobedience, for which he has been arrested twice. He is co-founder of the Climate Ad Project and the climate app Earth Hero, and the author of numerous articles and the book Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution. He lives in North Carolina.</em>
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Here’s a small watercolor I made at the end of last year after having been deeply affected by the horrible fires all over the west US. I don’t know what else I can do about these terrible fires that burn up everything that people love.
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Suggestions for Post-Petroleum Living
...things which are caused by nature are in a right condition and are kept in their best
organization....
Nicolaus Copernicus (Translated)
Over-arching Ideas
● Start with where you are – We all have a world view that must be addressed
when making changes
● epistemology, your metaphysics, your cosmology, your teleology, your theology, your
anthropology, and your axiology
● Work with neighbors to find solutions
● Optimize your Ecological Footprint – that will lead to personal sustainability
● Read the environment – There is much to learn from it
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Grow some food: from a small plot in the yard to a large market garden, it all helps.
Learn how to pickle, can, freeze, and dry food products from your new garden.
Share what you grow with neighbors.
Learn about Permaculture, Organic Agriculture, Apiculture, etc…
Support CSA (Community Supported Agriculture).
Shop at farmers markets.
Use a woven basket or bag for shopping instead of paper or plastic.
Build a root cellar – in your basement if you have one.
Save seeds to plant the next spring if you are growing Heirloom Seeds
Buildings (Residential, Commercial, Industrial)
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Build your house as small as possible – Use “The Not So Big House” mentality.
Build for replacement and maintenance – nothing lasts forever.
Natural materials are renewable – use those that are nearby.
Retrofit for low-energy use.
Have an energy audit done on your building
Check your home every year for wear.
Make your living arrangements denser in the winter.
Make roofs functional – water harvesting, energy producing, light reflecting.
Transportation
● Live closer to other people, “community” centers, and places of work.
● Carpool as much as possible – design a system for it (red card / green card).
● Develop and support mass transit projects.
�● Start bicycling and hitch-biking; support others who bike by carrying a bike rack in your
auto.
● Walk everywhere you can – good for you and good for the planet.
● Find or form a walk-able community to live in.
● Put panniers and/or a bike trailer on your bike for carrying loads.
● Have good headlights on your bike for night riding.
● Manage time for low-energy activities.
Education
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Support community-based schooling; busing will become more expensive.
Live near a local school – kids should be able to walk to school in a safe environment.
Remember that education also happens outside of school.
Support life-long learning endeavors.
Learn a useful craft and use it.
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Start with a healthy diet.
Add local low-tech medicinals & treatments.
Use walking as exercise AND transportation.
Choose manual labor over machines.
Laugh a lot. Be with friends.
Find fun activities where everything is win-win. Give and accept hugs.
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Develop cottage industry that supports the community.
Tie industry to local ecology.
Create niche-industry plans.
Look for local replacements to long-distance products.
Turn waste into a resource
Learn about and utilize principles of Industrial Ecology.
Focus on value-added economies.
Create centralized market places that are cooperatively based.
Learn about bio-mimicry.
Learn about Natural Capitalism
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Use Rail for bulk commodities.
Support multi-modal transport for regional and local products.
Be critical in accepting new products; many are not necessary.
Remember that we all pay for trade in the cost of living (in tax subsidies, price of
goods, etc.).
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Democratize energy sources.
Design small scale energy sources.
Develop an energy plan.
Learn about living machines.
Build point-of-use energy systems.
Use micro-hydro, wind turbine, and solar panels.
Use bicycle power for appliances and get some exercise at the same time.
Some Resources
www.biomimicry.org
Industrial Ecology: www.is4ie.org
Transportation: www.transalt.org
Food Production: www.mofga.org
Send feedback to: Nomadic Waxwing’s email: waxwing40@yahoo.com or
karl.watkins@gmail.com
Focus: Principles of Permaculture
Permaculture is a system designed for creating sustainable environments suitable for human
co-existence
Principles:
● Relative location – for a design component to work correctly, we must put it in the right
place. Connection is the key.
● Each element performs many functions – placement of the element maximizes its
functionality.
● Each Important Function is supported by many elements – redundancy is built into the
system
● Efficient Energy Planning – Use zone and sector layout to maximize energy use
● Zone Planning: place elements according to how much we use them or how often we
need to manage them. The elements that you need the most are also closest to the
house
● Sector Planning: Use sectors to manage dynamic energies – sun/ light/ wind/ rain/
wildlife/ water flow
● Use Biological Resources – Plants and Animals can do the work of the system and
save energy in the process
● Energy Cycling – matter and energy are cycled within the system to attain maximum
�return on “investment.”
● Small-scale intensive systems – designed for hand tools and small machines
● Plant stacking – different tiers of vegetation
● Time stacking – place pioneers, young trees, shrubs, ground cover and annual beds
together and at the same time. Succession will manage product yields
● Diversity – create a semi-ordered collection of plants in their right relationship to each
other; developing multiple products results in market stability and nutritional stability
(self-reliance)
● Edge Effects – edge is the interface between two mediums (e.g. water & air, grassland
& forest, etc.); edge increases productivity and therefore yield. Edge is maximized by
creating crenellations. Crenellations are wavy edges.
Focus: Industrial Ecology (IE)
Industrial Ecology models industrial processes after ecological processes.
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Waste is a resource
Materials flow is cyclical
Industrial process are linked across time, distance, and economic sectors
Landfills contain future resource and should be designed as storage units
Design for Environment (DfE) and Design for Life Cycle (LCD)
Compounds store energy in their bonds
Industrial processes tighten up on materials use
Life cycle is continuous as products are always reused in different forms
Product stewardship is implemented in IE
Much work still remains to develop the concept of IE.
Economic hurdles of IE will diminish as energy becomes more scarce
Focus: Eco-Machines
Eco-Machine Systems® filter wastewater and create useable products in the process (e.g.
fish, vegetation, clean water).
● Eco-machines were developed by Dr. John Todd following 1981
● Capacities to date range from 80,000 – 200,000 gallons per day
● The process uses an aerobic digestor, plants like duck weed, and Ecological Fluidized
Beds (EFB’s) to break down waste products and filter them out of the water
● Can provide tertiary treatment standards
● Can lessen municipal waste disposal costs
● Are found in places such as Northern Vermont, Australia, and Nevada
Focus: Biomimicry
Biomimicry – The study of nature for innovation that is adaptive, evolving, and sustainable
● Model Nature: we can model our designs based on examples in nature
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Nature the Mentor: nature can act as judge for ecological correctness
Nature as Measure: we can learn from nature instead of extracting from it
Non-human Organisms are constrained by their environment
Humans have diverged from this constraint
We can use biological laws as prescription
Indigenous people traditionally mimicked nature to survive
Learn from trees how to pump water hundreds of feet through transpiration
Model Mangroves for desalination
Thermo-regulate our buildings structurally like the termite
Biomimicry was coined by Janine Benyus in a book by the same title
We need a way to transcribe laws of nature to human systems
Focus: Natural Capitalism
Natural Capitalism is a business model that values natural resources in their role of sustaining
life on earth
● Natural Capitalism re-balances an abundance of human resource with a scarcity of
natural resource
● Natural Capital refers to the Earth’s resources and services
● Principles:
● Radically increase the productivity of resource use
● Shift to biologically inspired resource use with closed loops, no waste, and no toxicity
● Shift the business model away from the making and selling of “things” to providing the
service the “thing” delivers
● Reinvest in natural and human capital
● Natural resources are considered extremely valuable or priceless; some have no
recognizable replacement
Acknowledgements
Eco Machines: John Todd Ecological Design
Permaculture: Mollison, Bill et al, Introduction to Permaculture, Tagari 1991, pp 5 – 28
Biomimicry: www.biomimicry.net
Natural Capitalism: www.naturalcapitalism.org
IE: National Pollution Prevention Center for Higher Education
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<p>Transportation Feedback: <br /><br />Reflecting on the <a href="https://abcdbelfast.omeka.net/items/show/134">conversation from the Thursday in which Transportation was discussed</a>, I have the following thoughts to share.</p>
<p>• Two years ago, <a href="https://abcdbelfast.omeka.net/items/show/136">I cycled from Calais, ME to DC</a>. I <a href="https://greenway2020bike.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">followed the East Coast Greenway</a> for the most part and traveled on many bike paths. Three were worth noting: <br /><br />1. Southington, CT to New Haven CT – Long enough to be worthwhile. Many places to stop and rest. Pavilions are key. <br /><br />2. Baltimore, MD to Annapolis, MD – This was almost a full-days ride with more pavilions and places to stop and enjoy the surroundings. <br /><br />3. Arlington, VA to Leesburg, VA – Another full ride and most of it on flat terrain. <br /><br />• Cost to build a bike trail = $1,000,000 per mile average. <br /><br />• Consider Biking Calculus. Rates of Change, etc… It become easier to travel a longer distance on a flatter route. E.G. cycling around and up Grove Street is easier than pushing up Main Street. <br /><br />• Intregrate building development and active transportation. I like to think in 50 mile grids. That is my most comfortable biking distance per day. <br /><br />• Road Policy: In a city with multi-modal transportation, where might we see different modes of transport. Leg-Powered traffic is much different in behavior than motor-assist traffic. Across the width of a typical road, what policies are in place to protect slower kinds of traffic. <br /><br />• I’m still wishing to see a pedestrian way between Priscilla Lane and School Street. <br /><br />• Destinations: Where does the active transportation wind up? The local shopping center? With bikes going an average of 15-20 mph and cars doing 25 – 30 mph, should they really be using the same lane?</p>
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The Greenway in Maine
8/16/21 Calais to Meddybemp …
Moosehorn National Wildlife Blind – Quiet. Motorists in the distance. Flies buzzing – doing what they
do when humans aren’t around. Trills in the underbrush. Insects unknown. Loosing track of time here.
What is time to ecology? Fields of Golden Rod. Gentle Breezes.
Most of this ride, along the Greenway
route, was quiet with minimal
motorized traffic. There was a point,
though, where dump trucks became
more numerous. With no shoulder, this
became a point of contention as we
vied for who had the rights to the road.
The heavier vehicle won out (mine
was 30 lbs).
In short order, I came to the point
where turning off the Greenway was
required. There were still miles to go
… but what miles! Up hills, passed by
a logging truck. Logging trucks, unlike
Tractor Trailers, demand care when
being passed. Their slipstream is more
chaotic and easier to mis-handle.
Important, then, to recognize whether
the vehicle passing you is a logging
truck or T-T because you want to
handle the bike differently in each
case.
This first day, and others like it, made
me realize the map is not the terrain.
While your eyes might say “That
doesn’t look bad”, your legs will say
“What a burn!” My overnight was
tenting on a lake in the quiet of the Maine Woods. The unusual aspect to this overnight was that my
host knew members of my extended family and grew up not far from my family. Such coincidence.
So, we had much to talk about beyond cycling. I was driven to the nearest connection with the
Sunrise Trail, an eighty-four mile multi-use trail stretching between Pembroke and Ellsworth.
Multi-use meant mostly ATV’s and thus the trail had a certain quality. Still, my host thought that with
proper inflation, my tires could handle the trail and the thought of 80 miles without cars and trucks
convinced me to try it. I could always go back to the road farther up the trail.
8/17/21 Meddybemp to Cherryfield …
�Meddybemp – Excellent site on the water. Hard to reach and hard to leave with many hills. Engaging
hosts. Wonderful dinner
Sunrise Trail @ Mile 80 (?)
Facilities were non-existent for many miles. Mostly flat.
No cars or trucks. Some friendly ATV’ers. Display
maps would be useful at primary street crossings.
Extended, paved aprons at street crossings and
bridges would make the trail more amenable to
cyclists. Crowned trail grooming would make it more of
the multi-use trail it aspires to be. Dual lanes for ATV’s
and Cyclists might be possible in many areas. Many
bogs. Long grueling ride.
Cherryfield – Tenting overnight at a blueberry farm.
Left the trail a few miles short of the farm. Second
night tenting. Good friendly people.
8/18/21 Cherryfield to Orland…
Mile after mile passed me as I continued on the
Sunrise trail. In many places, again, it was easier to
leave my left foot un-clipped. This is the foot that
un-clips first and lands on the ground. Many days into
the ride, this would become the norm. 30 Miles spilled
me out into Ellsworth unceremoniously where I was
forced to deal with fast, incessant motor-vehicles and shoulder-less roads. An unfriendly town to
cyclists. The “86 This!” restaurant had really good food with outdoor dining but no adequate bike
storage.
Entering Orland, I was treated to a rear flat tire. I informed my hosts and was assured that they would
pick me up – it was only 4 miles away. I didn’t turn it down even though I was able to repair the flat
readily (somewhat) . Reconnecting the rear break calipers was a more difficult issue and didn’t
happen until the morning. I slept on a porch. The site was on a lake and I went for a dip to wash the
road-dust off. After two nights of tenting, and two mornings packing away a wet tent fly, this was a
welcome change. I would tent three more times on this trip.
8/19/21 Orland to Bangor …
Orland – An early breakfast with my
hosts and pleasant goodbyes saw me
off to my next destination – Bangor.
First, though, I had to pass through
Bucksport. Even though the route
followed the Penobscot Watershed, it
did not follow the river and instead
meandered it way through hill and
dale. Consequently, when I came out
�in Brewer, I was dis-oriented and unwilling to navigate my way to the bike shop located there,
instead, choosing to proceed directly to my host’s address. I had navigated Bangor many times by
car, as a driver and as a passenger but never as a cyclist. A different experience. I visited the library
and walked down to the waterfront. A KISS concert was being organized – something I definitely
didn’t need to see or hear.
8/20/21 Bangor to Unity …
There were some really nice stretches of
road. Without the humidity, it would have
been a really nice ride. The upcoming
tropical storm was pushing up lots of hot
sticky air and lungs are punished under
such circumstances. Bangor / Brewer
was a big disappointment. The bike
paths promised were not found riding in
and under construction riding out.
Thanks, though, go out to ECGA staff
and MDOT for the excellent signage
otherwise. Digital help is almost not
needed although I might have to invest in
a Garmin farther along. Still haven’t
purchased a mount for the Go-Pro
camera I am carrying. Watershed maps might be useful as we pass from one to another. … Writing
now, I am waiting for a pizza at the UHOP (Unity House of Pizza). Not much ambiance but good fare
for a hungry cyclist. I stopped in Troy to visit friends and had lunch with them. It was nice to learn at
that time that Unity was only 10 miles away. Manageable with only a few toiling hills. Along the way, I
met a fellow cyclist traveling the other way, to Calais.
By the way, average speed was 8.76 mph today and included walking several hills. Afternoon tea
today, a rare occurrence, was $9.00+ and dinner was$16.00. I bought a cantaloupe at an Amish
Farm Stand for $3.00 and this was indicative of food costs at the time.
The overnight was peaceful and, unlike other overnights, located right on the Greenway route.
8/21/21 Unity to Hallowell …
More road miles than trail miles. I have found
how convenient it is to have overnights
adjacent to the Greenway – as Unity was.
Even so, and for several hours, I was crossing
watersheds and once, questioned the signage,
thinking it was sending me in the wrong
direction. Indeed, arriving in Benton, I missed
a turn and found myself in Fairfield far from
any Greenway signs. Much time was lost in
finding them again, but, I have a general head
for the direction I want to go and proceeded in
�that vein. Great relief was found upon getting to Augusta (despite not being able to lobby legislators
for more bike paths). A short ride, shorter cafe visit and several blocks later, I found myself at the
Airbnb in Hallowell, a professional accommodation with much to commend itself for the budget
business traveler. I found many amenities but no dinner or breakfast. There was a sauna – I didn’t
use it. Slates was the restaurant of choice but with an overlong wait for which they were apologetic.
8/22/21 Hallowell to Brunswick …
The longest ride as of this writing. All was going well – the
normal hills, one turn after another, a nice bike path from
Hallowell to Gardiner. Then I hit Lewiston. I’d been using
the Greenway signage in large part as sort of an umbilical
cord. It kept me on task and confident that I was making
progress toward my goal. …. I missed a turn. This would
turn out to be a recurring motif during the trip. There were
three reasons this could happen; a missing sign, tree
branches covering it, or just zoning out. Whatever the
reason this time, I came into Lewiston and picked up
signage again only this time they looped me around to the
north and backwards about 10 miles. Never once did I
see a direction marker indicating that I was in fact
traveling north. As soon as I realized I was headed
backwards, around I went and, following the route as
shown on my phone app, managed to pick up the trail
again headed south toward Brunswick.
Later in the day, hitting Lisbon, ME I had about two hours
of steady rain, making the ride treacherous and
miserable, I managed to find Brunswick and arrive at the motel where I would be staying, at great
cost, I might add. Eighty-Eight miles that day.
8/23/21 Brunswick to Scarborough …
This day went fairly well. It was a challenge to
find the Greenway again. I had some
well-meaning help from a woman who
appreciated my story, which I shared while
waiting for the Visitor Center to open. She at
least advised me that I could take a picture of
google maps and refer back to it if I was lost.
This I could do in lieu of using DATA, always
an option. Once on route, I made it quickly to
Freeport and expected to come into the
center of the town. No such luck. The route
led me far to the south before issuing me onto
route One. I started back up Route One in
hopes of some lunch and a shopping trip to
LL Bean. It turned out farther than I wanted to backtrack so I ended up having lunch at a small cafe
�with rude waitresses. Then onward. All was going well getting into Portland when I decided to walk
across the Casco Bay Bridge. Sheesh! What a long bridge. That walk made me uncomfortably late
for Scarborough but I pushed on with much communication, made it to my destination with just
enough time to sign in, shower, and get to dinner with my host at Piper Shores, an impressive elder
community.
I spent a day and two nights there. My first day off since starting out. Laundry, shopping, a picnic, and
walking were all on the list. A busy day that did not include biking.
8/25/21 Scarborough to Eliot …
The Eastern Trail, a long pleasant
stretch from Scarborough to Kennebunk,
underscores why I am doing this ride. To
promote more stretches like this –
interconnected into a continuous safe
whole. Because of this trail, I ended up
in Eliot ahead of schedule and another
home-stay, my last full day in Maine. A
conversation with two fellows on the trail
led me to understand that money and
financing were not always the answer to
trail expansion or completion.
Sometimes you just need another
engineer…
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The Greenway Through Massachusetts
8/26/21 Eliot, ME to Danvers, MA …
I pushed myself, there was no doubt
about that. Part of the problem was
waiting to eat Breakfast at the Friendly
Toast. Still a hallmark eatery but
ordering a cheese omelet without
cheese was somehow disappointing. A
late opening (at least to me)
compounded the problem. Then
onward. A very hot day but extra water
and smoothies along the waterfront
helped to ease the heat. Massachusetts
came up without warning and before I
knew it, Newburyport came and went.
The next high-light was a trail stretching
for something like eight miles. When I
reached Danvers, I started looking for
the motel 6 that would house me for the night. It was not where I expected it to be. It was, in fact, a
few miles farther. I then decided to use DATA (going online using the cell phone) as a last resort. Turn
it on. Get the Route. Turn it off. This had become my habit now as signage became more scarce.
Motel 6, a poor excuse for a motel and not worth the money spent on it. As I write, this, a few days
later, I hope I didn’t pick something up there. A hard place cycling to as well.
8/27/21 Danvers / Peabody to Lynn …
A nice, lazy ride of 30 miles that I
nevertheless took a full day to traverse.
Many times I would walk if the turns were
close together or the traffic seemed too
close. Much time was spent relaxing at the
Salem Willows, enjoying the cool ocean
breezes. Arriving in Lynn found me
struggling to navigate a city I was unfamiliar
with, forgetting the easiest way to my hosts.
Yet, in the end, it was done. My Lynn hosts
were most engaging, lived in a big stone
house with many outside beds of veggies
and flowers and a most permacultural look to
them. I was invited to spend an extra night
and the extra day allowed for more logistical research and sight-seeing. It was dry the first night and
rainy the second – no dry tent for me.
�8/29/21 Lynn to Needham …
It was a Sunday, therefore, minimal traffic in the
early morning hours as I departed Lynn. This made
the trip from Lynn much faster than the trip to Lynn,
two days earlier, with a more direct route. My
observations suggest that Massachusetts drivers
are more aggressive, in general, than in Maine.
Perhaps, not aggressive, but hurried by the culture
of always catching up. In any case, once on the
Greenway, my path was laid, and I “hurried” along,
anxious to put Boston behind me. Nevertheless, I
was forced to a walking pace due to a gap in
signage. Navigating required more use of DATA for tracking the Greenway and this became more
habit-forming.
Boston left my head spinning with splits and loops to dazzle the linear mind. The oddest experience
was walking through a resort called Encore. Truly out of sync with its surroundings, it comprised a
large hotel building with elegant and lush landscaping and not a piece of litter in site.
Eventually I merged with the Charles River Greenway, a pleasant ride but with inadequate purveyors
of comestibles located within eye-shot of the trail. The trail would have been more pleasant if I hadn’t
been on the lookout for my exit to Needham, located to the south of the Greenway and far from the
route. That came up after miles of riding and one conversation with an interested local cyclist.
I finally turned south and with riding and walking, found my way to my hosts in Needham – about six
miles from the Greenway – a permacultural and sustainably-minded household. And here I am, with
an extra day to non-pedal and take care of needs not met by cycling. (8/30/21 – Laundry, shopping,
logistics, etc…)
8/31/21 Needham to Worcester …
On the road again. A long ride back to the Greenway with
another rear flat saw the ride off to a really good start
(hear the sarcasm?). That’s when I started to think about
accommodations and where they are to be found. On
route is best and my brain started to work on the best
design for a cyclists motel. After a brief ride along the
Charles River Greenway it was back to the road. Up hill
and down it led, through small towns and rural countryside
with narrow to nil shoulders and plenty of traffic to make it
less than enjoyable on this part. Still, persistence pays
and I finally found myself in Worcester. A harrowing bike
ride along a lake, and some turns, and I was at my next
overnight, a warm showers host with generous dinner and
breakfast and the necessary technology for continued
logistical support. It had become the norm that I would,
�every night, research the route ahead and accommodations to match. This has been the most
common occurrence other than pedaling and one I would gladly cede to others. Motorists, I have
noticed, work to avoid accidents with cyclists but some of them cut it rather close, especially at rush
hour.
9/1/21 Worcester, MA to Providence, RI …
Proceeding on to Providence and Rhode Island, I have entered my fourth state. This day saw
enjoyment in riding the Blackstone River Bikeway, stretching from Woonsocket, RI to Pawtucket, RI,
a distance of almost 14 miles. Along the way, rains descended and it became my goal to finish this
bike path. I had been offered a way out with a car ride for myself, my bike, and my gear. It became
evident to me that movement along the bike path became possible and safer than movement along a
road under those conditions. So, I accepted the car ride only at the end of that bikeway. Meanwhile,
the rain continued. I persisted. Overpasses became a blessing, a haven in the storm. Ironically, the
rain diminished, and dropped to near nothing by the time my riding was done. An extra day in
Providence gave me the opportunity to dry off and shop for Video Mounts. Two days later, I was off
again.
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The New York and New Jersey Greenways
9/11/21 Larchmont, NY to Avenel, NJ …
It was a Sunday. It was also the 20th
anniversary for the WTC Collapse, a fact
I had to be reminded of as it might have
changed my plans in moving through
that area. Being a Sunday, there was
some question as to where the ferry
would be leaving from, the World
Financial Center or Pier 11. Online
factoids suggested Pier 11, closer to
Brooklyn, but as I had decided to travel
down the Hudson, I would be riding past
the Financial Center so would check
there first. So, through the Bronx and out
to the Hudson I went. Finding the Hudson Greenway took some trial and error, finally locating
a long switchbacked ramp issuing out to and paralleling Route 9A. I would check the map
periodically to see my progress. I wasn’t sure what the Ferry terminal would look like so
wanted to be sure I would not miss it in all the bustle that is NYC. The World Financial Center
Ferry was indeed running to Paulus Hook, my connection through New Jersey. Still early in
the afternoon, I felt confident I would reach my overnight early. I was wrong. Bayonne, State
Island, and Elizabeth were still to come. Two bridges later, I made it to Elizabeth. It was 7:00;
darkness was approaching, and my phone was reaching zero (totally forgot that I had a
portable recharger). I still had about 8 miles to pedal and therefore called it quits. I put Uber
on my phone and ordered a ride (XL car to fit the bike). The end of a 13-hour day.
9/12/21 Avenel to Princeton …
Mostly straightforward. Flooding
complicated the route and frustrated
my attempt to ride the D & R Canal
Towpath trail. Somerset County had
been particularly hard hit. The D & R
Canal Towpath is a 36 mile trail from
New Brunswick, NJ to Trenton, NJ
and as the first part crosses through
Somerset County, I found massive
erosion and tree-fall at the very
beginning. At road crossings, I would
check its condition and finally worked
up the courage to enter.
�Normally, I could see the trail would be a superlative piece of infrastructure. The storms had
left it passable although it needed walking in some places. Once on it, I proceeded at a good
pace and so found my way to Princeton and my next overnight, a Warm Showers Host. Many
thanks go to them for an excellent meal at a local Indian Restaurant where my taste for
Mango Lassi’s was well satisfied.
(Proceed on to the New Jersey / Delaware Blog) …
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The Connecticut Greenway
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9/3/21 Providence RI* to Putnam CT …
While the day was
unremarkable, the 19 mile
Washington Secondary Trail,
from Cranston RI to Coventry
again underscored the need
for expanded bike paths.
Another ride from my hosts,
this time from their home to
the trail head eased my
departure from Providence*
and made the morning more
enjoyable. Recent rains
swelled the waterways, seen
clearly as I approached
Danielson and Putnam, both
preceded by bike paths. The
Danielson bike path seems to arise in the middle of nowhere. I expect the path will be
continued from its current terminus when either rights-of-way are established, or finances are
arranged, or both.
Once again, in Putnam, without Warm Showers or Couch Surf hosts, I found housing in a
Motel 6, located on the outskirts of the city and nearer to the interstate, a common location for
motels of that kind. A lengthy walk into the center of Putnam was needed for a decent dinner
at Elizabeth’s Farmhouse. Being a solitary traveler, I was able to be seated at the bar, the
second time on this journey (the first being in Hallowell, ME at Slates).
9/4/21 Putnam, CT – Manchester, CT …
As it may be clear by now, early departures are preferable to later, even when the ride is
shorter. An early departure seems to engender more energy throughout the day, even if the
schedule feels more frantic. So, with gear loaded, off I went, as close to 7:00 AM as possible,
away from Putnam and headed for the next Trail, the Airline State Park Trail. It was not easy
to reach from Putnam and I now look forward to a time when the Airline Trail and the Tracy
Road Sidepath are connected. After reaching the Airline Trail, a friendly greeting from walkers
and runners made the entry to the trail more enjoyable. Questioning one of the runners, I
found out that construction of a new bridge will allow the connection between this Trail and
trails to the east.
�I proceeded west along the trail,
comprised of trap dust and
gravel, toward Willimantic, CT. It
was an enjoyable ride overall
with exceptions being the big
oak tree across the path and
rough terrain at different road
crossings. Many miles of quiet
nature and a lack of motor
vehicles made this a
memorable ride with conditions
that should be duplicated in
many places. Some places
would have been improved with
the construction of a bridge or
tunnel. On I went, arriving in
Willimantic, a town with a food cooperative, the first I have come across during this bike ride. I
enjoyed an at-length conversation with one of the shoppers and, after purchasing food, sat
down outside to eat a relaxing lunch.
Onward I went but was very quickly forced to re-navigate the greenway, as I found, much to
my consternation, the trail was flooded from recent rains. Other cyclists described a
suggested route but I ended up using DATA from the cell phone anyway. A few miles farther
and I was back on the trail and headed for Manchester. I had arranged to meet friends from
my younger years and was offered a ride to my overnight, about 24 miles away. The ride into
Manchester comprised a long descent with many short switchbacks roughly paralleling the
I-384 Highway. Manchester had seen its share of flooding with mud-slicks on the paved trail
and some areas blocked off. Tires were well muddied by the end of the days riding.
9/5/21 Manchester CT – Southington CT …
Another early start from Manchester and
the park where I was picked up. It was a
short, fairly easy ride to Hartford but
construction in the city complicated
matters. The forecast had promised rain
later in the day but by the time I reached
the city center, rain had begun to lightly
fall promising a less than ideal riding day.
Light drizzle and threats of rain kept up
with me throughout the day and. My goal
had been the next greenway – The
Farmington Canal Heritage Trail, a nicely
maintained trail stretching from Simsbury,
�CT to New Haven, CT with a break in the middle. I found the trail after stopping at a large
farm stand and rather lengthy hill which was well-traveled with minimal shoulders. The Trail
was very pleasant to ride and mitigated the rain that fell. The gap between Plainville and
Southington was not welcome and made for a less enjoyable trip. Filling in that gap should be
a priority in future. Meeting a pair of young women headed north on their own touring bikes
was a chance for camaraderie, a rear treat on this journey. They were headed for northern
Vermont via Great Barrington ( if memory serves).
The rain was falling a bit more steadily as I entered Southington and it was time to to seek my
overnight, an AirBnB, not far on the map, from the Greenway. So, hopeful of a reasonable
arrival time, I started west. The route led through interstate zones and commercial strips with
abbreviated sidewalks (I was walking), and then came the HILL. 10% Grade … about a mile
long … drenching rain … glasses covered with raindrops. I was lucky to see anything. I
started to count house numbers. I was about 3/4 of the way to the top and found the numbers
I was seeking. My housing was on the opposite side. I crossed over – the number was not
there. Where was it. I was rather upset with myself. I could have chosen the Econo Lodge
down near the interstate with less trouble. Instead, here I was searching for a house number
that did not exist. Did AirBnb give me the wrong number? Was I reading them wrong? I
started down the hill again and reached the next house with very similar numbers. Was this it?
No. I went back up the HILL to the very top. The numbers were completely different there. I
headed back down. An apple farm was about to close up. A young fellow there was most
helpful by showing on his smartphone the house I was seeking was hidden by trees.
I found the house and while it was a nice enough house, I was unequipped to leave and
return again and had arranged to stay for two nights. I dried out during the next day and was
back on the road the day after that.
9/7/21 Southington, CT – Stratford, CT …
There are not many hills that I will walk down, preferring to ride easily and rapidly. But, leaving
the AirBnb with a 3/4 mile descent at a 10% grade – this was one of them. Even so, I arrived
at the Greenway in the early hours looking forward to the long paved trail taking me to New
Haven. The trail did not disappoint. Well maintained, flat, and mostly straight. I had come to
realize that I prefer boring rides on paved, flat, straight trails with facilities, distance markers,
wayside inns every 50 miles, and small markets selling food and other necessities.
The trail emptied out in the middle of New
Haven amongst the buildings of Yale
University. I walked through this area
appreciating the classic architecture. From
there it was a quick ride through New
Haven and a longer ride along the waters
of Long Island Sound. The afternoon
approaching Stratford was less ideal with
another rear flat. I walked the bike to the
�nearest bike shop, early enough that I found it open and had the tube replaced. I proceeded
then to Stratford, a “short” distance away, where I would spend three nights organizing future
overnights and avoided more rain. Much thanks go to my Couch Surf Hosts for this time and
the conversations we held on various topics.
9/10/21 Stratford, CT – Larchmont, NY …
I had been approaching NYC with misgivings. I
knew they had greenways through the Bronx and
along the East and Hudson Rivers but still… NY …
The Big Apple … The biggest city I will have ridden
through. So, staying in Larchmont was an ideal
location giving me plenty of time to traverse the
urban distance and move into New Jersey. Many
thanks go to my hosts in Larchmont for a fine
overnight, engaging conversation, and excellent
dinner. The surprising aspect in today’s ride was the
amount of time it took to leave Connecticut and
enter New York.
Normally, I could see the trail would be a superlative
piece of infrastructure. The storms had left it
passable although it needed walking in some
places. Once on it, I proceeded at a good pace and
so found my way to Princeton and my next
overnight, a Warm Showers Host. Many thanks go
to them for an excellent meal at a local Indian Restaurant where my taste for Mango Lassi’s
was well satisfied.
(See the Blog for New York and New Jersey next)…
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Pennsylvania and Delaware
9/13/21 Princeton, NJ to Philadelphia, PA …
Continuing on the towpath to Trenton, I passed into Pennsylvania. Trenton was confusing but finally I
was through. I passed through Northeast Pennsylvania and entered Greater Philadelphia. Two
surprises – North Philly is much longer than I thought it would be and there are many more bike lanes
than when I was living in Philadelphia 30+ years ago. The Ride through North Philly was a sad
experience – trash strewn everywhere along city streets and cars periodically blocking bike lanes. It
suggests a lack of civic pride. It was also a much longer route than it appeared on the map. I was late
getting to Center City due to another rear flat tire. I made up my mind to replace said tire next
morning before proceeding on to Delaware. Many thanks go to my Warm Showers host in
Philadelphia for a safe and quiet place to sleep. I had a fine but late dinner at Marathon On The
Square – located not far from Rittenhouse Square and also quite close to my overnight
accommodations.
9/14/21 Philadelphia, PA to New Castle DE …
First – Tire replacement. To do that, I had to wait until 10:00 AM, opening time for the nearest bike
shop. I had agreed to leave my overnight accommodations at 7:00 AM previously and thus had three
hours to pass. Those hours were spent reading and people-watching in Rittenhouse Square. Second
– Getting out of Philly. Not so easy. A waylaid freight train frustrated my attempts at an easy approach
to the Greenway. It was around Noon before I could say that Philadelphia was behind me. Then
came Chester, and after that … Delaware. Delaware is blessed with many paved pedestrian ways
easing cycling. So, once in Delaware, travel proceeded apace and I found myself in New Castle just
before dark, emptied out onto a thoroughfare. The trek from the Greenway to my overnight, a Super 8
motel was longer than I realized and it was dark before I arrived there. More work is needed to have
accommodations for cyclists along the Greenway.
9/15/21 New Castle, DE to Havre De Grace, MD …
�This would have been an easy ride if on US Route 40. Direct. Wide Shoulders. Somewhat flat. But
there were trails in Newark, DE so there I had to go. Nice trails but construction in Newark and no
clear way for cyclists to go made the trip longer than necessary and caused me to just miss a critical
bus ride across the Susquehanna River. I had to wait an extra two hours for the next bus from
Perryville to Havre De Grace. Ironically, I found out from the Bus Driver that cyclists are allowed to
use the bridge but after the crossing, I was glad I waited for and took the bus. The driver kindly left
me at my next overnight – another Motel 6. By now, I was counting the days to DC – 3 at this point.
(Proceed to the Maryland and DC blog)
Maryland and DC
9/16/21 Havre De Grace to Baltimore …
This was the only day that I went off-route on purpose. More rain was forecast so I wanted a fast ride
and that was Route 40. The Greenway stretched out to the north and west. I was already on Route
40 so it made sense to continue. The ride into Greater Baltimore was 30+ miles and I took that in
about five hours. That left a comfortable three hours to navigate from Baltimore to Hampden – about
10 miles. I arrived early in Hampden and spent time in the Rotunda Mall drinking smoothies and
buying groceries and waiting out the rain which had started to fall around that time. I might have
made it along the Greenway Route but appreciated the faster ride afforded by taking Route 40. Many
thanks to my Hampden Host for meals, overnight accommodations, and conversations about cycling
and other topics. Two days to DC. Tomorrow would take me to Annapolis.
9/17/21 Baltimore to Annapolis …
Another early start and bike lanes through Baltimore eased my way and soon I was headed for
Annapolis. As most of the Ride was on a paved bike path, the day passed without much on which to
comment. I made the connection between the well-groomed and paved bike path and the nearby
Airport (BWI). The Greenway comprised a series of rail trails including the B & A Rail Trail (11.0
miles).
My overnight was spent with family members of a local friend. The next day would see me finally
arrive at my destination of Washington DC.
9/18/21 Annapolis, MD to Washington DC …
Many back-roads, and two bike paths later, and I was in Greenbelt, MD. This was the home of the
Greenbelt Food Cooperative. Similar to a supermarket in its product line, it afforded me the
opportunity to grab some much-needed lunch and road rations. This would be the second food
cooperative I would visit on this trip. There were others near the Greenway Route but they were not
located in an area that I could easily visit, being either at the end or beginning of my days travel and
generally not open at a time when I would pass them.
�An afternoon ride, especially through the Anacostia Trail System saw me into DC proper and the first
of three hosts – DC, Leesburg, and Arlington in that order. Many thanks to those hosts as they gave
me the opportunity to explore the area, including the Washington Mall, two Smithsonian Museums,
and the Washington and Old Dominion Trail – between Arlington and Purcellville, VA – a 45 mile trail /
regional park. Many comments were made regarding the GAP Trail – stretching 150 miles from
Pittsburgh, PA to Washington DC. Food for thought.
I had planned to lobby for greenway expansion while in DC but one wrong phone call squandered
that opportunity.
There’s not much else to tell. The return trip took two days but might have been more pleasant if I
had shipped the bike home and much of my equipment. Lessons learned.
I am grateful to all the people who have hosted me. Warm Showers, Couch Surfing, and local
connections have made this adventure possible.
More pictures and videos will be available on various apps.
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My husband Jeff and I have been living in midcoast Maine for over 40 years. We have tended a hillside garden surrounded by woodlands for most of that time. The weather extremes of a changing climate were upon us this growing season. How to adapt and keep on growing food is the question. Hope we can find the answers.
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I was working on a much larger watercolor of a yellow grouper (see my website, arthurlnichols.com), and was wondering about the beauty of the ocean, its wildness as the least explored part of our planet Earth, and how its bounty nourishes us in so many ways....and then I thought about how we manage to corrupt the beauty around us if we are not careful, caring, and kind.
Over the years, different campaigns have been put to good use to try to keep trash from being indiscriminately discarded; “Don't Bee a Litterbug!” “Give a Hoot, don't Pollute!”, both of course championed by a happy, anthropomorphized creature, but I think they work.
Maybe it's time for a new anti-pollution campaign directed at the future generations, maybe like 'Air Heroes', but maybe skip the merchandising.... even as we teach kids to 'do well by doing good'. Ah, progress.
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Sea Level Rise, Storms, and Coastal Impacts in Belfast and
What to Potentially Do About It
Belfast Shoreline Property Owner’s Meeting
July 6, 2022
Peter A. Slovinsky, Marine Geologist
Maine Geological Survey
Dept. of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry
Funding from:
WMTW News Center Maine
�In Maine, sea level is rising in the long term…
�And is rising faster in the short term…
1990-2022 average: 3.03 ± 0.52 mm per year or 0.99 ft (11.9 in) per century
And can change abruptly
About half of Bar Harbor’s
observed SLR occurred since 1990
�3 of the highest monthly sea levels occurred in 2010
�In Bar Harbor, 100% of the highest monthly sea levels
have occurred since 2010, and 58% since 2017.
Highest Average Monthly Sea Levels (through May 2022)
Month Seavey Island Wells
Portland Bar Harbor
Cutler
Eastport
1930-2022* 2005-2022 1912-2022 1947-2022 2011-2022 1929-2022
January
2021
2021
2010
2010
2021
2019
February
1978
2010
2010
2010
2020
2010
March
1958
2018
2010
2018
2018
2018
April
2021
2020
2020
2020
2020
2020
May
2022
2017
2017
2017
2017
2017
June
1998
2012
2012
2012
2018
2011
July
2020
2019
2009
2019
2019
2011
August
2021
2021
2011
2011
2011
2011
September
2021
2021
1996
2021
2021
2010
October
2021
2021
2021
2021
2021
2021
November
2021
2021
1970
2021
2019
2019
December
2020
2012
2010
2010
2019
2010
* Seavey Island, ME tide gauge has data gaps from 1987-1998 and 2001-2019
Occurred since 2017
Occurred since 2010
STS (2020) Table 1
updated through 5/2022.
�Four out of five months in 2022 have seen water levels
in the top 10 values for each month in Bar Harbor
Month
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
2022 Tide Gauge Water level Rankings (through May 2022)
Seavey Island
Wells
Portland Bar Harbor
Cutler
Eastport
1930-2022* 2005-2022 1912-2022 1947-2022 2011-2022 1929-2022
2nd
5th
10th
10th
5th
4th
17th
15th
56th
42nd
10th
35th
6th
7th
22nd
8th
4th
6th
4th
5th
16th
6th
4th
5th
1st
2nd
5th
4th
3rd
4th
* Seavey Island, ME tide gauge has data gaps from 1987-1998 and 2001-2019
2022 monthly ranking is in the top 5 for that month
2022 monthly ranking is in top 10 for that month
�Sea level is expected to continue to rise...
Global Mean Sea Level Scenarios to 2100
Global Mean Sea Level (m)
8.2 ft
6.6 ft
Scenarios
Satellite
data
3.3 ft
1.6 ft
1.0 ft
Tide gauge data
1900
1950
4.9 ft
2000
2050
2100
Adapted from NOAA Technical Report NOS CO-OPS 083, 1/2017
��Recommended Sea Level Rise - Central Estimates
for Planning in Maine
(averaged for all of Maine’s tide gauges)
These scenarios were adopted in the State’s Maine Won’t Wait Report
STS (2020) Table 7b, p. 83.
�Storm surge is an abnormal rise of water generated by a storm,
over and above the predicted astronomical tides.
Storm tide is defined as the water level rise due to the combination
of storm surge and the astronomical tide.
�Bar Harbor, ME during 1976 Groundhog Day Storm
Predicted Tide = 8.8 ft MLLW
Storm Tide = 13.7 ft MLLW
Storm Surge = 4.9 ft
Storm Tide
Predicted
Tide
Storm
Surge
�Storm Surge Recurrence Intervals* for Maine
Tide Gauges
Recurrence
Interval
1
5
10
25
50
100
Storm Surge (feet)
% Annual
Seavey Isl.
Wells
Portland Bar Harbor
Cutler
Eastport
Chance
1930-2022 2005-2022 1912-2022 1947-2022 2011-2022 1929-2022
100%
1.8
2.1
2.0
1.8
2.1
2.0
20%
2.7
3.6
2.9
2.8
2.8
2.9
10%
3.1
4.3
3.3
3.2
3.1
3.3
4%
3.7
5.2
3.9
3.8
3.5
3.9
2%
4.1
5.8
4.3
4.3
3.8
4.2
1%
4.5
6.5
4.7
4.7
4.1
4.6
For Maine’s coastline, there is a 10% chance we can see about 3 feet of storm surge
every year, and a 1% chance of seeing storm surges in excess of 4.5 feet.
MCC STS (2020) Table 8, updated 7/5022
* Determined from best-fit equations to available NOAA CO-OPs data through 7/5/2022
�Storm Tide Recurrence Intervals for
Maine Tide Gauges
For Maine’s coastline, there is only about a 1 – 1.5 foot difference between our 10
and 100-year storm tides
STS (2020) Table 9, updated 7/5/2022
* Determined from best-fit equations to available NOAA CO-OPs data through 7//52022
�Bar Harbor’s Highest Water Level – March 16, 1976
15.5 feet
~20% Surge
2.5 feet
What could be Bar
Harbor’s “Super
Storm”
???
High
Tide
13.0 feet
Higgins Beach - Ralph Pride
�Bar Harbor’s Super Storm?
15.5 feet
~20% Surge
2.5 feet
High
Tide
13.0 feet
King
Tide
13.7 feet
�Bar Harbor’s Super Storm?
18.6 feet
+3.1 feet
15.5 feet
~20% Surge
2.5 feet
Highest
Surge
4.9 feet
King
Tide
13.7 feet
High
Tide
13.0 feet
Higgins Beach - Ralph Pride
�“Nuisance” flooding along Maine’s coast is increasing. Sea level rise is
significantly increasing the frequency and duration of nuisance flooding.
Portland, ME Nuisance Flooding Historical Averages
1912-2022 = 3.8 hours/year
2012-2022 = 12.5 hours/year
2022 already has 8 hours of nuisance flooding
Future Nuisance Flooding (w/1 ft of Sea Level Rise)
1912-2022 = 59.7 hours/year
2012-2022 = 133.3 hours/year
Portland, ME - A. Sherwin, MCP
�Currently, there are less than 20 miles of private and public roads
at-risk to monthly tidal flooding
Deer Isle Causeway, Jack Sullivan, Island Institute
With 3.9 feet of SLR, over 115 miles of roads* could be at-risk
during higher tides, especially impacting peninsular and island
communities
*ERG (2020), p. 40
�In coastal Maine municipalities, there are 10 WWTPs mapped in the
current 1% FEMA SFHA.
With 1.6 feet of SLR on top of the 1% floodplain, 6 of these might be
permanently inundated by 2050 costing between $31-$91M to
replace*. Belfast’s WWTP is just on the edge.
Wiscasset WWTP - R. Faunce
*Maine Won’t Wait (2020)
�Compounding normal coastal flooding are greater intensity
precipitation events, which can lead to more common flood events
of greater magnitude.
Route 1/Waldo Avenue, Belfast
6 inches of rain in 5 hours (a 500-year event)
on October 31, 2021
Eric Sanders/PenBayPilot
�Sea level rise is causing more frequent marsh inundation,
loss of marsh (conversion to open water), conversion of
dominant marsh types, and increased stress to threatened
species. Shoreline armoring also inhibits landward
migration of marshes.
RCWF Marsh, Saco - P. Slovinsky, MGS
�48% of the Maine coast is made up of erodible coastal
bluffs and 1/3 are eroding and are being armored at high
rates. These features supply most of the sediment to
nearby mudflats and fringe wetlands.
Bunganuc Bluff, Brunswick, ME, Walsh Engineering
�Sea Level Rise and Storm Summaries
• About half of the last century’s observed sea level rise
occurred since the early 1990s.
• Abrupt short-term sea level changes do occur and can
significantly influence beach and bluff erosion.
• A 1-foot rise in sea level will lead to a 10 to 15-fold
increase in nuisance flooding along low-lying areas in
Maine.
�Sea Level Rise and Storm Summaries
• A 1-foot rise in sea level will lead to a 10-year storm
having the impact of a 100-year event, or a 100-year
event having a 10-year recurrence interval.
• The state has decided to commit to manage for a higher
probability, lower risk scenario:
• Intermediate scenario = 1.5 feet (2050) and 4 feet
(2100).
• Sea level will continue to rise beyond 2100.
�Coastal Hazards and Adaptation
The general process of coastal hazard adaptation:
• Understand the types of coastal hazard(s) that may
impact your property and their extent;
• Understand the level of risk for your property to said
hazard(s);
• Determine a level of risk acceptable to you and given
your expectations of the property;
• Select appropriate adaptation strategies.
Maine Coastal Property Owner’s Guide to Erosion, Flooding, and Other Hazards, 2nd edition
�Responding to Storms and Sea Level Rise
There are really only 5 options:
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
Do Nothing
Avoid
Accommodate/Adapt
Protect
Relocate
Saco, ME, P. Slovinsky, MGS
�Do Nothing – given the extent of the hazard, land use type,
your level of risk and expected use of the property, the do-nothing
option may make the most sense.
https://maine.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=f52e6fa4f79b46a48203ad07cd55a9d7
�Avoid - Use hazard data and regulatory and land conservation
mechanisms (existing and new) to avoid new development or limit
redevelopment in high-hazard coastal areas
National Flood Hazard Layer (NFHL)
Saco,https://maine.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=f52e6fa4f79b46a48203ad07cd55a9d7
ME, P. Slovinsky, MGS
�Avoid - Use hazard data and regulatory and land conservation
mechanisms (existing and new) to avoid new development or limit
redevelopment in high-hazard coastal areas
Coastal Undeveloped Blocks
https://www.maine.gov/dacf/mnap/assistance/coastal_blocks_1m_slr.htm
�Adapt - Consider the use of Coastal Hazard Overlay Zones to
conserve land and adapt development coastal areas
�Adapt – Consider the use of Coastal Hazard Overlay Zones to
conserve land and adapt development coastal areas
https://www.oneclimatefuture.org/wpcontent/uploads/2021/02/Appendix-C.pdf
�Adapt - Use hazard data and regulatory and land conservation
mechanisms (existing and new) to adapt development in highhazard coastal areas
Floodplain Management Ordinance Language
100-year BFE +3 ft
100-year BFE
P.A. Slovinsky, MGS
Coastal
Some communities
haveUndeveloped
increasedBlocks
ordinances to require
three
feet above the 100-year BFE.
https://www.maine.gov/dacf/mnap/assistance/coastal_blocks_1m_slr.htm
�Adapt – Adapt critical coastal water-based infrastructure using
transferable vulnerability and adaptation assessment methods.
Penobscot Bay Working Waterfront Study – Public Landing, Belfast
P.A. Slovinsky, MGS
https://www.maine.gov/dmr/mcp/news/
�Avoid/Adapt - Use hazard data and regulatory and
mechanisms (existing and new) to adapt development in highhazard coastal areas – Coastal Bluffs and Shoreland Zoning and
MGS Coastal Bluff Maps.
Currently, minimum setbacks for stable bluffs are 75 feet from
the highest astronomical tide.
75 feet
(stable)
Coastal bluff (stable)
Highest Astronomical Tide (HAT)
Marsh or mudflat
https://www.maine.gov/dacf/mgs/pubs/digital/bluffs.htm
Note: not agency policies, for discussion purposes only
�Avoid/Adapt - Use hazard data and regulatory and
mechanisms (existing and new) to adapt development in highhazard coastal areas – Coastal Bluffs and Shoreland Zoning and
MGS Coastal Bluff Maps.
Currently, minimum setbacks for unstable bluffs are 75 feet from
the top of the bluff.
75 feet
Coastal bluff (unstable)
Highest Astronomical Tide (HAT)
Marsh or mudflat
https://www.maine.gov/dacf/mgs/pubs/digital/bluffs.htm
Note: not agency policies, for discussion purposes only
�Avoid/Adapt - Consider larger setbacks (e.g., 100 feet) for
stable bluff areas to account for future instability due to storms
and sea level rise and establishing setbacks from a higher starting
point (for example, HAT+4 feet SLR).
100 feet
Eroding
coastal
bluff
Coastal
bluff
(stable)
HAT+4
Highest Astronomical Tide (HAT)
Marsh or mudflat
https://www.maine.gov/dacf/mgs/pubs/digital/bluffs.htm
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unstable bluffs to account for further instability due to future
erosion and sea level rise.
125 feet
Eroding
coastal
Coastal
bluffbluff
(unstable)
HAT+4
Highest Astronomical Tide (HAT)
Marsh or mudflat
https://www.maine.gov/dacf/mgs/pubs/digital/bluffs.htm
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�Adapt - Use best available scientific guidance to adapt
infrastructure in high-hazard areas
Rockport Fire Dept.
The “CoastWise” Approach to Tidal Road Crossings
https://www.maine.gov/dmr/mcp/environment/coastwise/index.htm
�Transferable Work to help guide Avoid and Adapt Actions
https://smpdc.org/coastal
�Protect - Use green, green-gray, and gray approaches to
protect vulnerable shoreline areas, depending on wave energy,
erosion and flood vulnerability, criticality and other factors.
Courtesy of NOAA
�Protect – Consider the use of living shorelines in appropriate
areas.
Piloting Living Shorelines in New England
Wagon Hill Farm, Durham, New Hampshire
https://www.northeastoceancouncil.org/committees/coastal-hazardsresilience/living-shorelines-group/
�Protect – Consider using green/gray shoreline protection
structures before using solely gray shoreline protection structures.
Incorporate native vegetation to the maximum extent practicable.
Freeport, ME, MEDEP
�Protect – Consider requiring that if regrading is part of a
shoreline protection project, that sediment is beneficially placed
at the toe of the structure to simulate natural erosion of the bluff.
Bunganuc Bluff, Brunswick, ME, Walsh Engineering
�Protect – In heavily developed areas, the use of gray shoreline
protection structures should be in conjunction with nearshore
reefs or integrated living shorelines to enhance habitat.
Damariscotta, ME
Stamford, CT
Bunganuc Bluff, Brunswick, ME, Walsh Engineering
Norfolk, VA
�Relocate – In certain areas that will have unsustainable
flooding, erosion, and potential losses, consider the use of
strategic relocation of infrastructure and/or the use of rolling
easements.
Brunswick, ME, P. Slovinsky, MGS
�Additional Useful Resources and Links
MGS Hazards
https://www.maine.gov/dacf/mgs/hazards/index.shtml
MGS Sea Level Rise Ticker and Dashboard
https://www.maine.gov/dacf/mgs/hazards/slr_ticker/index.html
https://www.maine.gov/dacf/mgs/hazards/slr_ticker/slr_dashboard.html
MGS Living Shorelines in Maine
https://www.maine.gov/dacf/mgs/explore/marine/living-shorelines/
Northeast Regional Ocean Council Living Shoreline Workgroup
https://www.northeastoceancouncil.org/committees/coastal-hazardsresilience/living-shorelines-group/
Maine Flood Resilience Checklist
https://digitalmaine.com/mgs_publications/521/
TNC Coastal Risk Explorer and Habitat Explorer
https://maps.coastalresilience.org/maine/
�Thank you
Funding from:
Peter A. Slovinsky, Marine Geologist
Maine Geological Survey
peter.a.slovinsky@maine.gov
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Belfast Climate Crisis Committee
Coastal Shoreline Stabilization
July 6, 2022
William B. Gartley, P.E.
wgartley@gartleydorsky.com
207-236-4365
�Preliminary Site Assessment
• Is there imminent danger to persons or property?
• Owner’s needs and budget
• Height and steepness of existing slope
• Construction access/permanent pedestrian access
• Ground cover
• Conditions on abutting properties
• Global Stability – Site History – Geotechnical Engineer
�Preliminary Site Assessment
• Hydrology
• Intertidal Assessment
– Surface water
- Ledge or Rocky
– Ground water
- Mudflats
– Outlet Pipes
- Vegetation
- Fetch
�Imminent danger to life and property.
Rockport
�Gradual undercutting due to ice damage
and lower energy wave action.
Round Pond
�Grass clippings hindered vegetation,
resulted in significant localized failure.
Cushing
�Homeowners sometimes use other methods to “control” erosion!
Friendship
�Freeze/thaw action crumbling ledge.
Owl’s Head
�Previous site after stabilization.
Owl’s Head
�Significant failure
Rockland
�Field Survey
• Existing conditions survey and topography
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Structures
Property lines if possible
Drainage features (pipe outfalls, swales, streams, etc.)
Significant trees
Significant intertidal features (spartina or ledge)
• Regulatory Tide Lines
– Highest Annual Tide (HAT)
– Mean High Water (MHW) (Elevations published by
– Mean Low Water (MLW)
NOAA)
�Regulatory Considerations
• M.D.E.P. - Natural Resources Protection Act
– Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
– Department of Marine Resources
• U. S. Army Corps - Cat. 2 Programmatic General Permit
• Municipal
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Shoreland Zoning
CEO
Is Building Permit needed?
Is Planning Board review needed?
Is Floodplain Permit needed?
�Stabilization Design
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Armoring Base
Riprap Slope
Surface Water
Ground Water
Vegetation
�Stabilization Design
• Armoring Base
– Heavy armoring to protect against wave action and to
provide a structural base for the upper portion of the
stabilization
– Typically stones are not less than 3’-4’ in diameter
– First course should be buried approx. 3’ (or pinned)
– Slope: Goal is no greater than 1.5H:1V
• Absolutely no steeper than 1H:1V where needed
• Prefer slopes shallower than 1.5H:1V where possible
– Slope Preparation:
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Armor stone layer
Underlayer of +/-12” thickness of 6” blasted ledge
Geotextile filter fabric
Gravel/sand layer if native material is clay or clay/silt
�Stabilization Design
• Riprap Slope
– Used to stabilize slope above armored base
– Stone size may gradually decrease up-slope from armored
base
– Surface stones typically never less than 10” to 12” diameter,
with smaller stones used to chink voids
– Slope preparation same as for armored base, but begins
transition to vegetated area above
• Surface Water
– Intercept surface water when feasible and direct to
stabilized discharge location
– Outlet foundation drains and roof runoff to stabilized
discharge location
�Stabilization Design
• Ground Water
– Provide interceptor trench when feasible. Considerations
include:
• Significant tree roots
• Structures
• Septic fields or other
– Must be primary consideration when choosing:
• Stabilization material (Stone vs. vegetation)
• Slope steepness
• Slope preparation
�Significant trees and septic system prevent curtain drainage
Owl’s Head
�Stabilization Design
• Vegetation
– Protect existing vegetation when possible, except when
large unstable trees threaten further failures
– Cut back slope as much as possible (3H:1V preferred)
– Provide organic layer, 6” minimum
– Drainage
– Choose native, exposure-tolerant species
– Provide heavy woody mulch between plantings
– Protect seeded areas with erosion control fabric
– If steeper than 3H:1V, consider planting shrubs through
erosion control fabric and seeding throughout, or adding
some random stones to help hold soils and prevent sliding
– Temporary irrigation
– Replacement Trees (shoreland zoning)
�Armor layer showing riprap underlayer and geotextile.
Lincolnville
�Design section optimized for planting
South Thomaston
�Design Goal
• The ultimate goal in designing coastal stabilization
projects is to use a method that:
– Stabilizes the site as permanently as possible
– Is cost effective
– Is aesthetically pleasing to both the owner and general
public
– Is as environmentally friendly as possible to both the
intertidal and riparian habitats
�City of Belfast – City Park
�City of Belfast – City Park
�City of Belfast – City Park
Completed in 2019
Construction Cost: $80,000-$120,000
�Town of Rockport – Walker Park
�Town of Rockport – Walker Park
�Town of Rockport – Walker Park
Completed in 2020
Construction Cost: $40,000
�Belfast Shoreline Stabilization
�Belfast Shoreline Stabilization
�Belfast Shoreline Stabilization
Completed in 2018
Construction Cost: $48,000-$76,000
�Belfast Climate Crisis Committee
Coastal Shoreline Stabilization
July 6, 2022
William B. Gartley, P.E.
wgartley@gartleydorsky.com
207-236-4365
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The Belfast Climate Crisis Committee, an advisor to the Belfast City Council, facilitated a public meeting on July 6, 2022, at the Belfast Community Boathouse. The meeting purpose was to present information about the coming impact of our changing climate on shoreline properties. All of the property owners of record on the shoreline in the Belfast City limits were invited as the primary audience, but the event was advertised and open to the general public. <br /><br />The afternoon began with presentations from a panel of experts, and was then opened to discussion with the attendees. It was well attended, with a ‘full house’ that was actively engaged. The presentations from two of the presenters, Peter A. Slovinsky, Marine Geologist, Maine Geological Survey and the Maine Climate Council, and William B. Gartley, P.E. of Gartley & Dorsky Engineering and Survey, are included below. Bub Fournier, Belfast's Director of Codes and Planning, discussed zoning and regulatory considerations in adaptation and hardening efforts. <br /><br />This was the first of several meetings on the subject. Future meetings will center around detailed discussions of topics of interest to property owners. <br /><br />The entire meeting was videotaped, and is available online: <a href="https://vimeo.com/727779405">https://vimeo.com/727779405</a>
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City of Belfast
Climate Action Plan
Draft
MARCH 9, 2023
�Table of Contents
WHY DO WE NEED A CLIMATE ACTION PLAN IN BELFAST? ............................................................................................... I
RESOLUTION BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL ........................................................................................................... II
CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE....................................................................................................................................... - 1 WASTEWATER TREATMENT/SEWAGE SYSTEM ................................................................................................................................ - 1 STORMWATER SYSTEM ............................................................................................................................................................... - 1 ROADS .................................................................................................................................................................................... - 1 COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS ....................................................................................................................................................... - 2 MARINE FACILITIES AND ACCESS .................................................................................................................................................. - 2 PUBLIC SHELTERS ...................................................................................................................................................................... - 2 FOOD SECURITY ........................................................................................................................................................................ - 2 CARBON EMISSIONS AND TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS .............................................................................................. - 3 CONDITION .............................................................................................................................................................................. - 3 ACCOMPLISHMENTS................................................................................................................................................................... - 3 ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM ......................................................................................................................................... - 4 CONDITION .............................................................................................................................................................................. - 4 ACCOMPLISHMENTS................................................................................................................................................................... - 4 BUILDINGS AND HOMES ........................................................................................................................................... - 4 CONDITION .............................................................................................................................................................................. - 4 ACCOMPLISHMENTS................................................................................................................................................................... - 4 NATURAL RESOURCES ............................................................................................................................................... - 5 LAND AND SOILS ....................................................................................................................................................................... - 5 SHORELINE ............................................................................................................................................................................... - 6 FORESTS .................................................................................................................................................................................. - 7 PUBLIC HEALTH GUIDELINES...................................................................................................................................... - 8 CONDITION .............................................................................................................................................................................. - 8 ACCOMPLISHMENTS................................................................................................................................................................... - 9 COMMUNITY OUTREACH .......................................................................................................................................... - 9 CONDITION .............................................................................................................................................................................. - 9 ACCOMPLISHMENTS................................................................................................................................................................... - 9 PLAN FOR THE NEXT GENERATION ............................................................................................................................ - 9 CONDITIONS ............................................................................................................................................................................. - 9 ACCOMPLISHMENTS................................................................................................................................................................. - 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�Why do we need a Climate Action Plan in Belfast?
Global Climate Change poses a supreme challenge to human civilization on Earth, together with all life.
The changes are proceeding at a rate that eclipses natural adaptation and evolution. Since the end of the last
ice age, about 10,000 years ago, Earth’s climate has been in a relatively stable condition that allowed human
civilization to flourish. Since the Industrial Revolution began around 200 years ago, we have pumped vast
amounts of carbon dioxide and other “greenhouse gasses” into the atmosphere, resulting in global warming
that threatens to change our environment, to the point where large portions of the planet may not be suitable
for human habitation, and the rest will be very different from the environment in which our civilization
developed. Now, we must rely on a distinctively human ability to use our ‘big brain’ to adapt to, and
possibly mitigate, the changes that we have precipitated. Scientists are optimistic: our understanding and
technology make us capable of mitigating, and even reversing to a degree, the worst effects of climate
change, but only if humans have the will.
Belfast takes justifiable pride in a tradition of citizen involvement and activism in addressing community
problems in the interest of making the city a better place for all. One way that involvement is expressed is
through citizen advisory committees reporting to the City Council.
On March 20, 2018, the City of Belfast City Council voted unanimously to create the Belfast Climate
Crisis Committee [CCC]. In January, 2019, the Mayor of the City of Belfast signed a commitment to the
Global Covenant of Mayors. That document committed the City of Belfast to prepare for the impacts of
climate change, to develop and formally adopt an assessment of climate hazards and vulnerabilities, and to
develop a Climate Action Plan to address them.
In addition, on [Incomplete, Add date], the city council adopted a resolution to enroll in the Community
Resiliency Partnership (CRP) that is required to obtain funding from state through the GOPIF. The resolution
requires the city to adopt a Climate Action Plan, CAP, which is this document.
This Belfast Climate Action Plan [CAP] is a product of the Climate Crisis committee in furtherance of
the commitments by the Global Covenant of Mayors and Maine Won’t Wait. It is a plan to implement the
commitment asserted by council in the Resolution that accompanies the Community resilience Partnership
necessary to obtain grants through GOPIF. The CAP is intended as a living document based on public input,
and should continue to be updated, from time to time, since Climate Change will continue. It identifies
Actions that accommodate and mitigate the effects of climate change on the community, by emphasizing
actions that lead to a resilient community with equity in support of all citizens.
1. Belfast can expect at least a foot of sea-level rise1 by 2050, and almost 2 feet of sea-level rise by 2100,
under the rosiest scenarios of future GHG emissions.
2. The most extreme scenarios indicate that Belfast can expect up to 3 feet of sea-level rise by 2050, and up
to 9 feet by 2100.
3. The Maine Climate Council has recommended that every coastal municipality
• Commit to manage for an intermediate Sea Level Rise scenario of 1.5 feet by 2050 and 4 feet by
2100 (over a baseline year of 2000), and
•
Prepare to manage for a high Sea Level Rise scenario of 3.0 feet by 2050 and 8.8 feet by 2100,
depending on the risk tolerance of different kinds of infrastructure.
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Sea-level rise figures do not include storm surge, which typically accompanies the highest water events such as
that memorialized by the 1978 HWM.
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�The city of Belfast is adapting to Climate Change and is planning to continue. The City Council created
the Climate Crisis Committee in March 2018. The Climate Crisis Committee pursued its mission to gather
information, educate the citizens, collaborate with other groups, and advise City Council of actions that will
help the city adapt. The Future action items in this document acknowledge the goals identified in “Maine
Won't Wait, A Four-Year Plan For Climate Action.” In addition, specific topics relevant to Belfast are
presented herein. Climate Action Planning will have to be considered, and reconsidered frequently, to
determine circumstances, accomplishments, and vulnerabilities with respect to the future conditions
appropriate action goals.
Resolution by the Mayor and City Council
This is where we put city resolution language.
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�Critical infrastructure
Critical Infrastructure is defined as those common systems and resources that are vital to daily
operations in the City and community. These elements are the Wastewater Treatment Plant, roads, the
stormwater infrastructure, Marine Resources, and Public Safety Facilities, and a system that ensures food
security in times of emergency. Climate change will create a heightened need to protect this Critical
infrastructure. The following segments of infrastructure are particularly vulnerable to certain likely elements
of climate change.
Wastewater Treatment/Sewage System
Condition
The Wastewater Treatment plant, located at an elevation of 10 to 15 feet above present mean high tide,
will be vulnerable to flooding from the storm surge anticipated in the near future.
Accomplishments
The city council approved funding a detailed plan to deal with expected sea level rise. Olver Associates,
March 2022. The city approved a detailed plan to deal with expected sea level rise. Olver Associates, March
2022.
Stormwater System
Condition
The Stormwater and drainage system in Belfast is old and needs upgrades. There are frequent incidents
of overflow, seepage, wet basements, street flooding, and soil erosion that are caused by failures of the old
system.
Accomplishments
On September 20, 2022, Belfast City Council began discussing a plan, produced by Olver Associates,
and submitted to the City Manager on September 14, 2022. The plan is called “Stormwater Drainage System
Review scope of work project.” The plan was approved by unanimous vote of Council to be partially funded
using Federal money, for $70,000 as a phase 1 (inside the bypass), with a total cost of $170,000 to complete
the entire city.
Roads
Condition
Roads are critical for commerce, public safety, and general mobility in Belfast since there is limited
mass transit system. The road system is subject to floods and storm damage. When roads are damaged,
emergency vehicles are unable to travel, people are unable to travel to work and to shop, and the costs to
repair roads are high.
Accomplishments
The Public Works Department has a standard procedure to replace failing culverts and shoulders when
they are damaged by storms and when new streets are paved. The Public Works Department also acts
quickly to sweep up gravel and leaves when they endanger the proper functioning of culverts, streets, and
ditches.
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�Communications Systems
Condition
Present public communication systems are the wired telephone system, and cellular systems. Emergency
and marine services also include VHF radio links. All may be vulnerable to widespread power loss, and the
‘siloing’ of communications.
Accomplishments
Marine Facilities and Access
Condition
Belfast has a robust and energetic Harbor Department. The breakwater docking facilities have been
buffeted by storms and they are vulnerable to climate change and sea level rise. There is a plan for the Inner
Harbor Improvement Project developed by the Harbor Department.
Accomplishments
[Incomplete] City of Belfast REPORT ON THE Inner Harbor Improvement Project. October 31,
2014. Gartley and Dorsky.
Public Shelters
Condition
There are no designated public shelters for intense heat or cold events in Belfast. The city has
experienced storms and cold spells (-15 F) that are dangerous to the health of citizens. Shelters should exist
and be equipped to cope with intense weather events. Belfast has a large population of senior citizens and
other vulnerable citizens. Needs work.
Food Security
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Identify food needs and sources for our community.
•
Support local food security, distribution, and resilience through expansion of local farming,
particularly with organic practices that build soil fertility, and increase crop yields without recourse to
pesticides.
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Encourage food-processing cooperatives, shared facilities, gleaning projects, and other approaches to
maximizing use of the food we produce.
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�Carbon Emissions and Transportation systems
Condition
Transport
The primary mode of transportation in Belfast are private automobiles. Belfast, and surrounding
communities, lack effective transportation options available in more densely developed communities.
(Comprehensive Plan Draft, 2021)
Belfast, like all of the US, has evolved to support auto transport, to the detriment of alternatives such as
walking and bicycling, as weather permits.
Quasi-Public Transport options include; Mid-Coast Transportation (WCAP) offers an intra-city Belfast
Downtown Area Shuttle (DASH) that operates M/W/F 7 times/day for a low fee structure. Mid Coast
Transportation offers Inter-city Flex bus service on a once daily basis to and from surrounding towns, with a
one-way fare ranging from $2.00 to $3.50.
Bicycling, during 6 months of the year, is growing in popularity. Within the Bypass, there are marked
bike lanes on major streets. Bike access from the outlying areas is complicated by Rt1/3.
It is clear to anyone living here that the automobile is part of the fabric of Belfast. Most families have
more than one vehicle. This is the case because destinations for people of Belfast are often not in Belfast.
Therefore, a person must travel to places like Augusta, Bangor, Rockland, or other towns, and Belfast is a
also a daily or frequent destination for people from other communities to work or shop.
Greenhouse Gas inventory
When the City of Belfast joined the Covenant of Mayors in 2019, the CCC set out to determine the
Greenhouse gas sources. The City of Belfast Climate Crisis Committee worked with ICLEI (Inventory of
Communitywide Greenhouse Gas Emissions Local Governments for Sustainability USA) to produce a
Greenhouse Gas Inventory (GHHI) in September 2021. 2019.
The inventory determined the sources of Green House Gases per sector.
Accomplishments
•
Belfast Climate Crisis Committee put in the time and effort to complete this GHGI report, as
accurately as possible. A conclusion of the GHGI report is that, as in most cities, private cars and
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�trucks are responsible for the largest share of local emissions in Belfast. Reducing the use of gasoline
and diesel internal combustion engines is the ‘low hanging fruit’ in terms of climate change
mitigation. It is also a challenge for one city to accomplish a 50% reduction by 2030 when other
states are resistant to this goal. Nevertheless, Belfast has taken steps to encourage the use of Electric
Vehicles (EV) by installing at least 5 EV charging stations that run off power from the Belfast City
Solar Installations. Belfast will not avoid its obligation to reduce Greenhouse gas emissions.
Electric power System
Condition
A major source of Nationwide GHG emissions is electric power generation. The initiative of converting
to an ‘electric economy’ to greatly reduce use of fossil fuels must be accomplished through a rationally
staged plan. The vulnerability and capacity limits of the existing electrical generation and distribution model
is a major contributor to lack of resilience and power source growth. Resilient sources of electrical energy,
with major renewable generation, are the most essential response to a secure future.
In Belfast, many homes are reconfiguring their heating and cooling systems to incorporate new
technology such as electric generating solar panels and heat pumps. Ground Source Geothermal is not being
used as much as it could be.
Many homes utilize wood fire to supplement their other heat sources such as heat pumps, oil and
propane.
Accomplishments
Local solar and heat pump companies are very busy installing products that will reduce our reliance on
carbon producing fuels. The industry is in a growth phase in Maine. The number of heat pumps and solar
panels are not counted but from observation alone, the number of units is increasing.
Buildings and homes
Condition
The systems we rely on to heat our homes, prepare our food, and provide hot water for cleaning are
major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. Soon, cooling our homes will become an issue. The same
considerations apply to commercial and City infrastructure. The transition to an ‘electric economy’ as the
energy source is the strategy, but that will require time to implement. Reducing energy loss--and use--in
existing and new buildings is essential.
Accomplishments
•
The city of Belfast enforces the State Building Codes and Standards, as specified i under Title
25 §2372 and Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code (MUBEC.
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�Natural Resources
Land and Soils
Condition
Belfast is comprised of 24,536 acres of land, with almost 40% of the land considered either prime
farmland or soils of statewide importance. There are seven preserves or conservation areas consisting of
more than 200 acres within city limits, as well as thirteen municipal parks. Three parks and fifteen
rangeways provide public access to the bay. The greatest threats facing the health of land, foliage and crops
are flooding due to increased levels of precipitation and extended periods of drought. The highest recorded
levels of precipitation have occurred within the past decade. The classic definition of an “extreme
precipitation event” of two or more inches of rain in twenty-four hours now occurs regularly. Flooding and
erosion threaten soils, wildlife habitats and food production.
The soils range from coastal sand and rock, and loam and prime agricultural soils, to compact glacial till,
and wet areas that are often wetland or hydric soils. In areas that have been urbanized, or managed by man,
drainage is not often natural and has been subjected to years of urban engineering and cut and fill, streets and
drains and culverts, and springs, some of which are natural, and some that are a result of man’s influence.
The soil map shows that most of the land is not prime farmland, but there are areas of important and prime
farmland in Belfast. The acreages of soils and their ratings are provided in the table below.
Soil Rating
Acres
Total
Prime Soil
2851
Important Soil
6953
Not Statewide
Importance
8964
Wet
5768
Figure 1Intrinsic Value of Soils of Belfast
Accomplishments
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All of Belfast Climate Dialogues (ABCD) public presentation (Oct. 18, 2022) on creating resilience
for storms and flooding.
All of Belfast Climate Dialogues (ABCD) public presentation ( Jan. 24, 2023) on effects of climate
change and the landscape and local environments.
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All of Belfast Climate Dialogues (ABCD) public presentation (Feb. 2, 2023) on rain gardens and
other water management techniques.
Climate Crisis Committee discussion with Coastal Mountain Land Trust on ways to collaborate on
land preservation.
Conducted Ocean Street Neighborhood survey on flooding and erosion
Shoreline
Condition
Belfast’s location at the mouth of the Passagassawakeag River estuary on Belfast Bay and Penobscot
Bay includes approximately 240 parcels of land with frontage. The shoreline is under increasing stress from
sea level rise and storm surge. Predictions hold that Belfast can expect at least a foot of sea-level rise by
2050, and almost 2 feet of sea-level rise by 2100, under the best scenarios of future GHG emissions. The
most extreme scenarios indicate that Belfast can expect up to 3 feet of sea-level rise by 2050, and up to 9
feet by 2100. Intensity, frequency and duration of severe storms, especially those that increasingly come
from the south-southeast, have caused extensive damage and threaten to overwhelm existing structures.
Clean-up and restoration from the recent storm of December 2022 is estimated to cost $120,000. Much of
the western shore of Belfast faces severe risk. Beach erosion and damage to marshes, seagrass beds, and
other vegetation threaten habitats for fish, birds and insects.
Accomplishments
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(2019) Installed a weather station on City pier with funding from the City Council and the Gulf of
Maine Research Institute (GMRI). Broadcasting on Weather Underground on KMEBELFA20(201920) Installed 6 coastal flooding observation posts to capture photographic evidence of flood levels, in
collaboration with National Weather Service/NOAA. Funding came from Belfast and GMRI.
(2020) Installed a tide gauge at the harbor with a radar unit to measure tide levels. Project done in
collaboration with Belfast Area High School students and with funding from Belfast and GMRI.
BAHS students independently installed a companion ultrasonic sensor tide gauge at the same location
on the pier.
(2021) Installed US Harbors Divirod gauge at end of the breakwater to measure sea level elevations.
(2021) Installed two posts on the Harborwalk [at foot of breakwater and near Front Street Shipyard]
which monument Belfast’s “high water mark” (Jan. 1978), and which illustrate the predicted
moderate and high water levels in the event of a similar event in 2050, taking into account sea level
rise. Project done in collaboration with the Army Corps of Engineers Silver Jackets and other state
and federal agencies.
Held Shoreland Property Owners’ meeting (July 6, 2022) to present information about the coming
impact of our changing climate on shoreline properties. All of the property owners of record on the
shoreline in the Belfast City limits were invited as the primary audience, but the event was advertised
and open to the general public.
Created website with valuable resources for public information, such as “Sea Change in the Gulf of
Maine: Outlook for Belfast.”
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�Forests
Condition
Belfast has a long history of human occupation.
Indigenous people occupied this area by around 10,000 years
ago, and modified the forest somewhat before the Europeans
arrived, but only minimally, since they used fire and stone
tools to provide shelter and to clear land for food crops.
The Europeans cut down most of the original forest
because they were seeking to harvest the large stands of
White Pine and Oak and Maple. Now, the original forest
occurs only as fragments. Most of the land has been cleared
for agriculture and homesites, except outside of the Bypass
where there are more densely forested areas interspersed with
farmland. Other disturbances, such as fire and windthrow
occur, sometimes naturally, and the forest has changed and
has been replaced by a combination of Street trees, Native and Non-native trees and shrubs and weeds, and
lawn grass. We must recognize that Belfast is a Successional Forest that is disturbed from time to time or
harvested and never becomes a mature “climax” forest.
As urbanization continues, clearing of forests for homes and commercial use will generally continue.
Clearing of forests will impact forest habitat. Furthermore, insect pests and climate change are resulting in
changes to the habitat.
Habitat migration is occurring too. Insect pests and climate change are resulting in changes to the
habitat. Bird migration patterns are changing, and species arrive earlier than previously. Humans have
introduced species that compete with the native species, and migratory bird routes have changed. We must
encourage the good species and discourage the invasive species and learn to maintain the habitat in a healthy
condition.
Forests are particularly good at long term capture (sequestering) of carbon and keeping it out of the
atmosphere. The USDA Forest Service provides a calculator tool called “iTree” that calculates tree canopy
and benefits derived by forests. The benefits are calculated and are as follows in the table below.
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�Table 1. Forest Benefits to Belfast (2021 data)
Subject
Tree canopy
Forest Acres
impervious surfaces
Carbon Sequestered
CO2 Equivalent1
Runoff Avoided
Rainfall Intercepted
Carbon Monoxide
Ozone
Nitrogen Dioxide
Sulfur Dioxide
PM
Carbon Storage
CO2 Equivalent1
Numerical Value
60.44%
13,166 acres
1,047 acres
10,651 tons
39,055 tons
9 MG/yr
1,066 MG/yr
5,349, lb/yr
599,347, lb./yr
97,423, lb./yr
4,956, lb./yr
25,190, lb./yr
526,583 tons
1,930,805 tons
CO2 = Carbon dioxide, PM2.5 = Particulate matter 2.5 microns or less, tn =Short ton (US), t = Tonne / metric ton,
MG/yr = Millions of gallons per year, m3/yr = Cubic meters per year, lb/yr = Pounds per year, kg/yr = Kilograms
per year
Accomplishments
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Belfast has a very active volunteer Garden Club, and the Belfast Parks department participates in
activities that increase the planting of trees for the future, for pollinator plants and habitat, and as well,
planting vegetation for aesthetic purposes. The Belfast Parks department works closely with the Waldo
County Soil and Water Conservation District.
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The Coastal Mountain Land Trust has established several forest preserves in and around Belfast.
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“Project Canopy” and Belfast “GreenStreets” are two programs that the City of Belfast that encourages
the planting and care of trees. For example, since 1980, “GreenStreets” has been planting and caring for
trees throughout Belfast neighborhoods from the east side to outer Main Street to the Belfast Waterfront,
in City Parks, on private and public property, school yards and cemeteries, court houses and fire houses:
GreenStreets volunteer group has planted many hundreds of the trees we pass by every day. The City of
Belfast also has a tree ordinance, and a Tree Warden. Belfast has conducted an inventory of street trees
and has been actively eliminating trees that are old or diseased.
Public Health Guidelines
Condition
The COVID19 Pandemic illuminated some of the challenging demands we can expect will be placed on
our public health systems in the future. Climate change will continue to create health-related challenges,
including development and spread of unfamiliar disease vectors, as well as possible future mass
migrations/displacements of human and animal populations that may cause or exacerbate future pandemics
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�and other public health emergencies. In general, Belfast is a healthy place to live, and is not too densely
populated, though a substantial part of its community is elderly, disabled and/or economically challenged.
The city government recognized the need to take protective actions during the Pandemic. The city required
that meetings be held using Zoom technology when things were at their worst.
Accomplishments
The city has a well-staffed and equipped hospital, and offices of numerous doctors, dentists and other
health care providers. Belfast implemented actions that were appropriate to protect its citizens and visitors
during the Pandemic.
Community Outreach
A key to implementing actions for accommodation to and mitigation of the effects of Climate Change is
a lack of understanding of this enormously complex problem. We all need to be on the same page to make
good decisions on policy and spending of public funds.
Condition
The Belfast Free Library has developed a wealth of information regarding through the All of Belfast
Climate Dialogues ABCD program. It is all documented and available on line.
The Climate Crisis Committee convenes meetings and symposia, educates the citizens, and collaborates
with other statewide groups such as A Climate To Thrive (ACTT) and Local Leads the Way (LLTW).
Accomplishments
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The Climate Crisis Committee and the Belfast Library All of Belfast Climate Dialogues ABCD program
helped organize and lead a Belfast Senior College course at the Hutchinson Center in March-April 2023
entitled “Climate Change; Impacts on Forests, Farms, Habitat, and Sustainability of All living things”.
This course was open to all citizens over 50 years old. It involved many of the local land preservation
entities such as the Coastal Mountains Land Trust, the Georges River Land Trust, the Belfast Bay
Watershed Coalition, and the Waldo County Soil and Water Conservation District. The purpose was to
spread the word regarding the likely impacts of Climate Change on the local habitat, which includes
Belfast.
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Numerous All of Belfast Climate Dialogues ABCD meetings have been held over the past few years and
are documented on the All of Belfast Climate Dialogues ABCD website.
Plan for the next Generation
Conditions
Even the best laid plans are diluted and defeated by the pressure to deal with immediate crises. Climate
change is sure to generate that pressure. However, the future of Belfast will be the responsibility of the next
generations, and this aging generation must strive to produce a healthy legacy.
Our first duty is to understand and educate citizens about the challenges ahead, that will be caused by
climate change. No one really knows when problems will arise. Many years may go by before sea level rises
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�to a dangerous level, and nobody knows how weather and climate will drive citizens to respond to changes
like heating and cooling and precipitation.
Climate Change is our future, whether we like it or not. All citizens and friends of Belfast must continue
to acknowledge, understand, and respond sensibly to Climate Change.
Accomplishments
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Belfast created the Climate Crisis Committee in 2018.
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The Climate Crisis Committee produced this CAP and provided it as a report to the City Council and
Mayor and City Manager.
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The Climate Crisis Committee works with the Belfast Area High School (BAHS). BAHS students are
invited to participate as members of the committee. The teachers work with students to teach skills that
have produced a tidal gauge system, a weather station, and some other technical devices that will provide
critical information regarding climate and sea level change.
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Community Climate Conversations
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Draft Climate Action Plan presented to Belfast City Council
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On April 4th, 2023, Fred Bowers, chair of the Belfast Climate Crisis Committee, presented a first draft Climate Action Plan to the City Council as part of the committe's report.<br /><br /><strong>Read the Draft Climate Action Plan document, posted at the top of this page.</strong><br /><br /><strong><a href="https://belfastme.new.swagit.com/videos/223463" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Watch the presentation</a> at the City Council meeting</strong> <span>from the 30:00 minute point to 34:00. </span>
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<div>A summary of Fred's remarks follows:<br /><br />The CCC has been preparing for this product for 5 years, since its inception in 2018. The CCC has been writing this draft Climate Action Plan for more than a year. <br /><br />The CAP is based on fulfilling its Mission, reference to numerous scientific studies, the Governor’s office guidance with the “Maine Won’t Wait” climate plan, and many other community meetings and dialogues, such as those posted on the Belfast Free Library ABCD program website. There was a lot of community interaction and dialogue.<br /><br />During these meetings, everyone recognizes that we need to have a plan for climate change. This CAP is that plan. Belfast has many accomplishments. We have a lot to be proud of. <br /><br />What's not included in this draft is the list of potential Future Actions needed to implement the plan. The CCC has that draft list and it's a big one that we are paring down. At some point we will need to lay out these actions with the City Council and prioritize them, perhaps in a work session.<br /><br />The CAP, along with enrollment in the <a href="https://www.maine.gov/future/climate/community-resilience-partnership" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Community Resilience Partnership</a>, will enable Belfast to be in a strong position to be eligible for the State and Federal money that may become available to deal with Climate Change. </div>
<div><br />Our future citizens will appreciate that we all worked on this CAP and that we are dealing with Climate Change. </div>
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April 4, 2023