The workshop heard from four of the five communities SMPDC is working with to create climate action plans.
Those five communities are Kittery, Saco, Biddeford, Kennebunk, and Kennebunkport.
“Those strategies range from anything from setting up residential programs to help people electrify or do energy efficiency in their homes, to helping figure out coastal hazard impacts of climate change and how infrastructure can be upgraded to make it more resilient,” Karina Grater, SMPDC’s sustainability division director, said.
The first Southern Maine Climate Action Workshop was held in mid-November at UNE’s campus in Biddeford.
At the workshop, individuals on climate committees and task forces in Saco, Biddeford, Kennebunk, and Kennebunkport shared what their communities have in the works.
Pamela Morgan is an environmental studies professor at UNE and is also on a climate task force for Kennebunkport.
“One is about building resiliency. One is about engaging people, essentially. And the other …