Sustainability & Resilience
The SMPDC Sustainability and Resilience Division supports regional and local efforts to enhance sustainability, climate preparedness, and community resilience. Four guiding principles direct the Division’s work:
- Collaboration: Create a collaborative network to share knowledge and coordinate efforts on sustainability, community resilience, and climate actions.
- Assessment: Assist with evaluation of climate change and coastal issues, priority needs for addressing impacts, and periodic progress on sustainability and resilience initiatives.
- Integration: Support communities with incorporating sustainability, resilience, and climate change considerations into community operations, culture, planning, and decision-making.
- Action: Increase the climate resilience of southern Maine by coordinating and supporting capacity-building for climate change mitigation and adaptation planning and strategy implementation.
The Sustainability and Resilience Division was established in 2019 as the Regional Sustainability and Resilience Pilot Program, when the towns of Kittery, Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, Ogunquit, Wells, and York sought to create a regional program to support their individual sustainability and coastal resiliency efforts. SMPDC continues to support the Towns of Kittery, Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, Ogunquit, and Wells with increased individual assistance and intercommunity collaboration. Click here to view our Work Plan for Fiscal Year 2025.
Explore the pages below to learn more about sustainability and resilience efforts throughout the region.
Building resilience to coastal hazards through adaptation strategies and mitigation planning.
Working to strengthen our region’s electric grid, support emissions inventory efforts, and assist homeowners.
Planning, outreach, and regional coordination on sustainable transportation issues.
Supporting communities in creating municipal Climate Action Plans to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change.
Community Resilience Partnership
Providing technical assistance to communities to enroll in the State’s Community Resilience Partnership and apply for Community Action Grants.
Featured studies and projects, from coastal adaptation to sustainable road design.
All reports and project deliverables from SMPDC's Sustainability and Resilience Division.