General Info

About GrowSmart Maine GrowSmart Maine promotes sustainable prosperity for all Mainers by integrating working and natural landscape conservation, economic growth, and community revitalization. We promote Quality of Place by convening and engaging in public conversations about Maine's future, contributing common sense policy analysis, educating the public, advocating for state and local change, and supporting model practices. As sponsors of the landmark 2006 Brookings Institution report, Charting Maine's Future, we're actively bringing together Maine citizens, government, businesses and non-profit organizations to work for a more sustainable prosperity that supports both an improving standard of living and the protection of this state's unique character. Creating and expanding common ground, wherever possible, is a major element of the GrowSmart mission and a key to our success. We can only succeed, as a state, if we develop a new unity and sense of purpose between historic adversaries: business people and environmentalists, conservatives and liberals, Republicans and Democrats. Producing understanding, knowledge and action: We also produce periodic reports, in partnership with world-class researchers and visionary planners, that offer new insights into how Maine is changing and what we can do to shape the future together. But we don't produce reports to sit on shelves. We also actively help implement change, through broad public education campaigns, organizing and mobilizing people across the state, advertising, generating news coverage and lobbying.