History Rhymes: Echoes of the Past in Today’s Society
As writers and artists, Rob, Aran, & Margot Lee Shetterly will explore the failures and successes in history in order to plan better for a more just future. Rob Shetterly...
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2026 Speaker Series
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From Individual Precarity to Collective Resilience: The Revolutionary Ecological and Social Implications of Local Microfactories, Community Fablabs, Personal Fabrication, and Fabcities
In this talk we'll see how the Nearings use economy has evolved into the maker movement and Fabcities. Fabcities are cities that produce everything they make using a circular economy....
Seeds of the Good Life
In this conversation, Eliot Coleman & Barbara Damrosch will share stories of Scott & Helen Nearing—the homesteaders who shaped their lives—and explore what the Nearings' revolutionary politics and radical experiment...
The Influence of Helen and Scott Nearing: A 50-Year Journey
In 1976, inspired by the ideas of Helen and Scott Nearing, Sherrie Lovler and Norm Lee began a back-to-the-land life in upstate New York. They later founded The Good Life...
Deep Dive with the Bullfrog
Thousands of people have visited the Nearings' final homestead, at The Good Life Center, in Harborside, Maine, and many have seen the Bullfrog documentary film about their lives. At this...
Going Against the Grain with a Legume!
In this talk, Sarah Speare, CEO and co-founder of Tootie’s Tempeh will share the story of how a food company stood up to nearly every norm in business to become...
Swordfish in Wabanaki Homeland
Archaeological sites along the Maine coast show that swordfish existed in the Gulf of Maine between approximately 5,500 and 3,700 years ago. Excavations at multiple Maine sites have produced swordfish...
Mobile Commoning: How Sharing is Caring in a Climate Hope World
This talk considers the history of "commoning" as a way in which generations of people around the world and right here in Maine have resisted private property, settler colonialism, and...
Protect Ancient Forests
Alyssa & Michael O'Brien, co-founders of Protect Ancient Forests, make the case for working together to protect our remaining old-growth and mature public forests — why they're irreplaceable, how policy...
Loving and Leaving the Good Life
Helen Nearing's last full book, Loving and Leaving the Good Life (1992), insists that how we live and how we die are not separate questions. Kate Braestrup has spent her...