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HOME ENERGY COACHING
CamdenCAN, working with the towns of Camden and Rockport, is making free energy coaching available to residents. If you’re interested in volunteering as a coach, or if you’d like a visit from a home energy coach, learn more here.
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
Help create a robust team of local people knowledgeable about basic emergency preparedness for any shocks that might affect our community. If you’re interested in helping CamdenCAN put together a community disaster team, get in touch camdencan2025@gmail.com
We recently held a food garden tour where neighbors shared their ideas and experiences growing food here in Camden/Rockport. We’re excited to carry on these conversation about growing food and ways to make sure we are all food secure. We’ll be launching a working group on Local Food Systems. We hope to connect with gardeners and neighbors, growing toward a future rooted in sustainability, food security, and strong community relationships. If you have a food, native or pollinator garden, or if you’d like to join this working group, let us know.
CAMDEN TALKS CLIMATE
CamdenCAN, in partnership with the Camden Public Library, and the Town of Camden, has presented over 15 talks and events focusing on local climate issues. Find many of them on Camden Public Library’s YouTube channel. These will resume in Fall 2025, with a focus on Energy Literacy and Emergency Preparedness.
Resilient Reading Group
We’ll be reading and discussing two books this Fall, Kate Marvel’s Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet and Brian McLaren’s Life After Doom: Wisdom and Courage for a World Falling Apart. Biweekly, on Tuesdays, 4-5 pm at the Camden Public Library. Read more about it here.
HARBOR RESILIENCE
The Town of Camden, working with CamdenCAN and Richardson Associates, spent the fall of 2024 undertaking a study of Camden’s inner harbor. The final plan was issued in April 2025, and you can read it here. There’s still much work to be done–at the Public Landing, Bayview Street, etc. Look for more information to come.
MUNICIPAL SOLAR
The town of Camden currently leases a solar array on at the town-owned Sagamore Farms. We are working with the town about investing in those panels. We’re also investigating increasing our solar capacity at Sagamore Farms and on other town-owned properties.
Camden Climate action reports
Camden has had the benefit of many Watershed students’ efforts to create Camden Climate Action Plans. There are tons of great ideas for the town, and individuals. You can read Turning the Tide: Preliminary Climate Actions for Camden, Maine (July 2020) here. You can also read the Camden Comprehensive Plan (2017) here–there are great recommendations for Energy Sustainability, Dark Skies, EVs, etc. What do you think Camden’s climate action should be? We’d like to hear from you.
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