Thanks But No Tank 2013 People’s Choice Award for exceptional efforts mobilizing and engaging citizens to protect Searsport and surrounding coastal communities from potential harm posed by a proposed LPG tank and terminal. This year, NRCM received 26 People’s Choice nominations from across the state. We then had the difficult task of narrowing it down to Read More
People's Choice Award
NRCM 2012 People’s Choice Award Presented to Bob Iles of Bethel
Bob Iles, 2012 People’s Choice Award For exceptional efforts preserving the summit of and maintaining trails on Whitecap Mountain in Rumford, and for continued work to obtain public access to area lands and waterways as a member of the board of the Mahoosuc Land Trust The Natural Resources Council of Maine created the People’s Choice Read More
Belfast Co-Housing Project Wins NRCM’s 2011 People’s Choice Award
Augusta, ME — The Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM) is pleased to announce that the Belfast Co-housing and Ecovillage is this year’s winner of the NRCM People’s Choice Award, for their tireless work to establish a model cohousing community. (Read full citation at end of this page.) “Belfast Co-housing and EcoVillage members have pursued Read More
Downeast-Area LNG Activist Wins NRCM’s 2010 People’s Choice Award
NRCM news release The Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM) is pleased to announce that Vera Francis of Perry has won NRCM’s 2010 People’s Choice Award, for her work protecting Passamaquoddy Bay. NRCM’s People’s Choice is one of the organization’s Environmental Awards, which it gives each year to an individual or group whose actions have Read More
Award Recognizes the Visionary Behind the Brush
Painter Evelyn Dunphy of West Bath is honored for her work protecting Maine’s wilderness. by John Richardson, staff writer Portland Press Herald news story Evelyn Dunphy has moved mountains with her watercolors, say her admirers. The painter from West Bath is widely known and admired for her paintings of Maine landscapes, especially Mount Katahdin. She Read More
A Painter Who Helps Us See and Love
Times Record editorial What we love, we take care of. If that’s true — and we believe it is — the challenge facing each of us is how to love, and thereby take care of, the people, places and things we don’t happen to know personally. If you’ve never been to Maine’s North Woods and Read More
NRCM Gives People’s Choice Award to West Bath Artist for North Woods Protection
NRCM news release Augusta, ME – Evelyn Dunphy of West Bath was chosen as the winner of the 2009 Natural Resources Council of Maine People’s Choice Award, for her work protecting Maine’s wilderness areas, particularly Katahdin Lake. NRCM’s People’s Choice Award is bestowed each year to an individual or group whose actions have made a Read More
