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RECENT NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
CBEP has awarded three Community Grants in Cape Elizabeth and Harpswell
Cape Elizabeth Land Trust for “Picture Posts for Community-Focused Climate Change Education.” Harpswell Heritage Land Trust for “Pocket Naturalist Guide to the Harpswell Intertidal Zone.” Town of Harpswell/Harpswell Conservation Commission for “Preparing Citizens for the Impact of Sea Level Rise on Private Roads.”
CBEP’s Director, other Cutler staff, and UNH are involved in an NSF Coastlines and People (CoPe) project on sustainable coastal communities
Visit https://sites.google.com/view/necope2100/home to learn about the project, sign up for workshops, and take a survey.
Casco Bay Currents Newsletter Winter 2020/21 issue introduces Resilience Fellow
Read the newsletter here for articles on GPCOG’s Resilience Corps, Maine’s Climate Action Plan, and the recently adopted Casco Bay Monitoring Plan.
CBEP 2020 Annual Report available
Check out all the good work the Partnership accomplished in 2020! Read the Annual Report here.
Five projects awarded Maine coastal resilience innovation grants totaling $152K
Another Mainebiz story, this time on Coastal Community Grant awards. CBEP is one of many partners that is working with the Town of Phippsburg, one of the awardees. Read the story here.
Portland Water District, nonprofits get $8M in federal funding for Sebago Lake conservation
Sebago Lake Watershed. Mainebiz has a story on an exciting announcement for the Sebago Lake Watershed. Read about it here.
$650K EPA grant to help keep Casco Bay clean
August 8, 2020. The University of Southern Maine, Casco Bay Estuary Partnership and others will help sustain Casco Bay for decades with EPA grant. News Center Maine reports.
Digital & Distance Learning Grants RFP Available
Portland, ME: CBEP is offering a small grants program for creative tools for digital and distance learning for school educators, non-profit environmental educators, science communicators & others. Here is the RFP
‘A win for everybody:’ Waterfront interests align on dredging of Portland Harbor
The June 24, 2020 Portland Phoenix story is here.