by Beth Quimby, staff writer Portland Press Herald news update Everett “Brownie” Carson is leaving his longtime post as head of the Natural Resources Council of Maine, one of the state’s largest and oldest environmental protection groups. Carson said he will step down from his job as executive director later this year in order to Read More
Brownie Carson
Head of Natural Resources Council of Maine Stepping Down
MPBN radio news story Everett “Brownie” Carson, 62, says he wants to spend more time outdoors and with his family. The long-time head of the state’s largest environmental lobbying group is stepping down. Everett “Brownie” Carson, 62, has been at the helm of the Natural Resources Council of Maine for more than two and a Read More
Governor King Talks about Leadership and Edmund Muskie – A Great Evening at Bates!
NRCM co-sponsored this year’s Edmund S. Muskie Lecture at Bates College on Wednesday night. The lecture was given by former Maine Governor Angus King, with an introduction by Brownie Carson, NRCM’s executive director. I was very excited to attend this event, and I got to bring Marshall Burk with me — NRCM’s first-ever paid staff Read More
Brownie Carson Presented with Bowdoin College’s 2005 Common Good Award
Everett B. “Brownie” Carson of Brunswick, Maine, Bowdoin Class of 1969, has been honored by the Bowdoin College Board of Trustees with the 2005 Common Good Award, presented June 4 during Reunion weekend. The Common Good Award honors those Bowdoin alumni who have demonstrated an extraordinary, profound, and sustained commitment to the common good, in Read More
The Education of Brownie Carson
2005 Down East Environmental Award Winner by Jeff Clark Down East magazine May 2005 Over the last twenty-one years this distinguished Vietnam vet has learned how to work with countless Mainers to preserve what makes the state unique. In 1984, when Everett “Brownie” Carson was hired as executive director of the Natural Resources Council of Read More
NRCM’s Brownie Carson to be Honored for Conservation Leadership in Washington, DC
National Wildlife Federation * Natural Resources Council of Maine news release Reston, VA (March 31) – The nation’s leading conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife is honoring Everett “Brownie” Carson, executive director of the Natural Resources Council of Maine, with its National Conservation Achievement Award for exemplary leadership in protecting wildlife and natural resources. Brownie Read More
Environmentalist Honored in Portland
by Misty Edgecomb Bangor Daily News PORTLAND – Leadership requires the ability to balance the needs of your constituency with those of society as a whole — a dicey proposition, but one that Maine’s best-known environmental lobbyist, Brownie Carson, has managed for 20 years. Musing on the attributes of a leader during a Friday celebration Read More
Mitchell Lauds Environmentalist’s 20 Years
by Deirdre Fleming Portland Press Herald news story Former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell, the keynote speaker at the Natural Resources Council of Maine’s annual meeting, used his speech praising Brownie Carson’s 20 years of service to warn of environmental dangers ahead. “We’re going backwards in this world in dealing with environmental issues,” Mitchell said Friday Read More
Brownie Carson Honored for 20 Years at Helm of Natural Resources Council
A voice FOR the wilderness by Elizabeth Dorsey Times Record BRUNSWICK – Brownie Carson knows an environmental law can be repealed. He knows that a restored landscape can be contaminated again. But when a hydroelectric dam falls, there isn’t anyone who’s going to build it back up again. This is what Carson was thinking on Read More
