To our members and friends,
passivhausMAINE has had an extraordinary year of strengthening and growing. As we round out the year, we’re acknowledging a shift in the political landscape which will impact the way we fund the work we do, and at the same time simply continuing our work.
Mika is registering households for our retrofit initiative pilot – do you know someone in Freeport or Lewiston who would be interested? Randy is focused on expanding our training curricula for upcoming two-day intensive courses and pre-apprentice and summer camps for younger people. Dori is shaping up February’s 12th Annual Forum, our yearly gathering of extended stakeholders from across Maine and New England.
I have been working intensively with our development team to expand our financial partnerships. I spend much of my time with our collaborative partners who do very similar work in New England, in the Maritimes, in California, and Great Britain and continental Europe.
passivhausMAINE and retrofitMAINE provide inspiration and are in turn inspired by the work we see. Retrofit and policy work that encourages a robust building, cost savings to Mainers and carbon reduction. We’ve been in every corner of the state, filling classes with lifelong learners.
We are grateful to work with architects, builders, engineers and developers, owners and renters, other nonprofits and businesses to educate and actualize better buildings across the State of Maine and beyond!
Will you support us this year?
- $50 covers a home visit of our energy coach to a retrofit prospect.
- $300 would cover an audit of one of our retrofit projects in Lewiston and Freeport.
- $1000 would contribute greatly to annual phME operations.
A contribution of any amount reinforces and encourages our work while also reminding us of all our supporters.
We’re looking forward with optimism and determination and hope you will help support us in this work.
– Naomi Beal, Executive Director
In 2025, your donation will help us:
Launch pre-apprentice and summer camp programs, getting young Mainers interested in building science
Hold state-wide training sessions on passive building principles, home retrofitting, and Maine building codes (26 locations and counting!)
Fund the retrofit initiative, implementing high-efficiency retrofits for low-income homes in Lewiston + Freeport
Aid in our effort to educate Mainers about new policies and guidelines, while encouraging the state to fight even more aggressively on climate change issues
Organize and encourage local and state legislators to undertake policy reform
Lead seminars, workshops, site-walks and events to disseminate new skills and knowledge
Seek to develop a permanent, physical space in Maine
And loudly advocate for passive building, passive designers architects, builders and producers, and encourage our partners and other changemakers
Make a donation online now!
It only takes a minute.
2024 by the numbers…
advocacy + action
passivhausMAINE is an active partner with the state of Maine – working to craft legislation and standards, advice on future policy and advocate for statewide climate solutions. In 2024, we’ve been excited to be part of the following efforts:
Adoption of the home energy scoring system, enabled and developed under the Efficiency Maine Trust Act, which creates a new scoring sytem for the energy efficiency of residential buildings.
Overseeing the formation of the Building Coalition, comprising organizations focused on reshaping the built environment, through which we share and export ideas and leverage collective power to petition for change.
