Our top 10 moments of 2020
January 4, 2021As this very odd year comes to a close, let’s celebrate the large and small ways our community helped us protect the health of Casco Bay in 2020. Here are our top ten for the year: 1.) On December 2, the Maine Climate Council released its four-year Climate Action Plan, “Maine Won’t Wait.” We… Read more
What Casco Bay is telling us
November 3, 2020We had a lively and informative What Casco Bay is telling us: a Casco Bay Matters Event as more than 100 Friends joined us for the conversation. Here is a video of the event, for those of you who were not able to attend live or would like to relisten.… Read more
September 2020 Water Reporter Post of the Month
October 2, 2020Jeff Brown remembers what Casco Bay was like before the Clean Water Act. In a Portland Press Herald Maine Voices column he writes: “When I was growing up here as a boy in the 1960s and 1970s, the bay at times had a distinct odor to it. No, no,… Read more
Donate to Climate Change and Casco Bay Fund
September 9, 2020We are 97% of our way to our $1.5 million goal! Help us go over the top! Friends of Casco Bay is creating a $1.5 million fund to be used over the next ten years to understand how Casco Bay is being affected by climate change. We will launch and… Read more
July 2020 Water Reporter Post of the Month
August 27, 2020Our volunteer Water Reporters help us record how Casco Bay is changing. Some volunteers, including Jeff Walawender, track conditions at a particular location on the coast regularly. This allows us to capture information, before, during, and after events happen. We use this observational data to identify and work to eliminate sources of pollution to the Bay.… Read more
Make a difference for a decade
August 13, 2020Casco Bay is changing and changing quickly. Rising temperatures, rising sea levels, increasing amounts of stormwater runoff, acidification — we are seeing dramatic shifts in a variety of conditions, all likely to significantly impact our economy, heritage, and way of life. We are creating a $1.5 million Climate Change and… Read more