Last evening, Bernie Reim and I took the first step towards starting the Kennebunk Area Resilience Project (a name which may change) as we met to start planning the effort.
As I may have mentioned before, the overall goal of the project is to increase the ability of our community to withstand potential threats such as weather related occurrences like Hurricane Sandy, economic difficulties such as the downturn in 2008, or other unexpected events that seem increasingly likely given the turbulent times in which we live. We aim to increase the ability of our community to withstand such things by identifying opportunities for improvement and then acting on them. This might be through through fostering stronger collaboration by community members that are already working on aligned projects (networking!), for example, or it might be by identifying a need/opportunity and helping to start a new project as another example. Ultimately, we are shooting for a stronger community and increased local self reliance.
Ultimately, we imagine a wide variety of things taking place to along the path to this goal. This article in the Portland Press Herald describes the creation of a Community Solar Farm. To me, it's not hard to imagine a project like this as being part of our overall effort.
Over the coming months we will be reaching out to people to join us as
we work together to create a stronger, more resilient community.
Please come join us!
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