NRCM news release Augusta, ME – The Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM), the state’s leading nonprofit membership organization working to protect Maine’s land, air, water, and wildlife, has named its 2014 Conservation Leadership Award winners. Award recipients will be honored at a special event Wednesday, October 15 from 5–7:00 p.m., at Maple Hill Farm Read More
People's Choice Award
2012 NRCM Environmental Award Winners Announced
At the Natural Resources Council of Maine’s annual meeting, held on September 27, 2012 at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, we were pleased to present our NRCM Environmental Award to four outstanding individuals. Learn more about the award winners on our website. You can also watch their speeches in the videos below. Award Winners: Mark Stadler Read More
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 Group Wins Award from Natural Resources Group
Bangor Daily News news story BELFAST, Maine â Belfast Co-housing and Ecovillage has won the People’s Choice Award from the Natural Resources Council of Maine because of its members’s work to establish a model co-housing community. The group of families and individuals has been working since 2007 to create a residential, ecologically sustainable community on 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
Brownie Carson Presents Environmental Award to House Speaker Hannah Pingree
Brownie Carson, executive director of the Natural Resources Council of Maine, presents House Speaker Hannah Pingree with NRCM’s 2010 Environmental Award for her extraordinary success at passing bold new laws that protect Maine’s people, wildlife, and environment. The event took place at the University of Southern Maine, Portland, during NRCM’s annual meeting event, “Natural Leaders.”
Vera Francis Receives NRCM 2010 People’s Choice Award
Vera Francis is this year’s winner of the Natural Resources Council of Maine’s People’s Choice Award, for her work protecting Passamaquoddy Bay from a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project proposed for her tribal lands. The award was presented by NRCM Board President Bill Houston at our annual meeting, entitled, “Natural Leaders,” at USM in Portland, 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
