By Tory Ryden, WCSH Staff WLBZ new story PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — Lainey Randall and Addie Farmer know they live in one of the most beautiful places in the world and they share a mutual goal to keep the ocean around them as clean as possible. To that end, the two discovered an app Read More
People's Choice Award
2016 NRCM People’s Choice Award Presented to Larouche Family for the Hirundo Wildlife Refuge
2016 People’s Choice Award presented to Stephanie Larouche, representing the Larouche family for the family’s commitment to wildlife protection and habitat conservation as well as environmental education for children and adults through the Hirundo Wildlife Refuge. Eleven years ago, the Natural Resources Council of Maine created our People’s Choice Award to give NRCM members and Read More
NRCM to Present Awards to Portland, Phippsburg, Liberty, Bethel Conservation Leaders
NRCM News Release Augusta, ME – Maine’s leading nonprofit membership organization working to protect Maine’s land, air, water, and wildlife, has named its 2015 Conservation Leadership Award winners. The Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM) presents the awards each year to individuals or groups that have made an extraordinary contribution to the protection of Maine’s Read More
Godfrey Honored for LNG Fight
Natural Resources Council of Maine gives Bob Godfrey its People’s Choice award by Leslie Bowman Working Waterfront news story EASTPORT — Tenacity and dedication. Those were the qualities cited in recommending environmental activist and Eastport resident Bob Godfrey for recognition by the Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM). Godfrey was given NRCM’s People’s Choice Award Read More
2014 NRCM Conservation Leadership Awards Announced, Including Lifetime Achievement Award for Wellehans
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
NRCM 2013 People’s Choice Award Presented to “Thanks But No Tank”
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
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
