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SUMMARY:History Rhymes: Echoes of the Past in Today's Society
DESCRIPTION: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. \nRob Shetterly is the artist behind Americans Who Tell the Truth\, a portrait series honoring those who stand for justice and the common good — joined here by his son Aran\, a writer and editor\, and daughter-in-law Margot Lee Shetterly\, bestselling author of “Hidden Figures”. \nSuggested donation: $10
URL:https://goodlife.org/event/history-rhymes-2026/
LOCATION:The Good Life Center\, 372 Harborside Road\, Harborside\, 04642\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260712T160000
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SUMMARY:From Individual Precarity to Collective Resilience: The Revolutionary Ecological and Social Implications of Local Microfactories\, Community Fablabs\, Personal Fabrication\, and Fabcities
DESCRIPTION: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. Atoms cycle locally while ideas\, designs  and best practices flow globally and open source. \nLonnie Gamble is a professor\, educator\, and sustainability leader working across renewable energy\, ecovillage design\, and permaculture—including founding the Abundance Ecovillage. \nSuggested donation: $10
URL:https://goodlife.org/event/from-individual-precarity-to-collective-resilience-2026/
LOCATION:The Good Life Center\, 372 Harborside Road\, Harborside\, 04642\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260719T160000
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SUMMARY:Seeds of the Good Life
DESCRIPTION: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 in simple living still has to teach a world hungry for alternatives. \nEliot Coleman & Barbara Damrosch are pioneers of the organic farming movement\, internationally known for their work on sustainable agriculture and year-round growing. They were good friends with the Nearings and are the founders of Four Season Farm\, right here in Harborside\, ME. \nSuggested donation: $10
URL:https://goodlife.org/event/seeds-of-the-good-life-2026/
LOCATION:The Good Life Center\, 372 Harborside Road\, Harborside\, 04642\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260726T160000
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SUMMARY:The Influence of Helen and Scott Nearing: A 50-Year Journey
DESCRIPTION: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 Get-Together\, a yearly summer gathering with workshops for those drawn to the back-to-the-land movement and published Homesteaders News magazine for over nine years. Helen and Scott came to the first festival and Helen came again to teach stone wall building. Fifty years later\, Sherrie reflects on how the Nearings’ influence continues to shape her life as a self-employed artist\, poet\, teacher\, and author. \nSherrie Lovler is an artist and writer whose work explores faith\, ecology\, and everyday spiritual life through teaching\, storytelling\, and community engagement. Her newest book\, which pairs paintings & poems\, is called Distant Voices.
URL:https://goodlife.org/event/the-influence-of-helen-and-scott-nearing-a-50-year-journey/
LOCATION:The Good Life Center\, 372 Harborside Road\, Harborside\, 04642\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260802T160000
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SUMMARY:Deep Dive with the Bullfrog
DESCRIPTION: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 gathering\, Greg Joly will offer live commentary on the Nearings’ homesteads\, their life-ways\, and the political and economic radicalism that undergirded everything they built. \nGreg Joly is a Nearing scholar\, writer\, homesteader\, and founder of Bull Thistle Press\, engaging questions of culture\, justice\, and the moral imagination in American life.  \nSuggested donation: $10
URL:https://goodlife.org/event/deep-dive-with-the-bullfrog-2026/
LOCATION:The Good Life Center\, 372 Harborside Road\, Harborside\, 04642\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:Going Against the Grain with a Legume!
DESCRIPTION: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 best in its category. \nSarah Speare is the CEO and co-founder of Tootie’s Tempeh\, a worker-owned cooperative in Biddeford. Tootie’s is the first commercial tempeh company in the US to ferment without plastic bags— a process that has already kept 140\,000 bags out of landfills and oceans— and produces an award-winning\, non-bitter tempeh. \nSuggested donation: $10
URL:https://goodlife.org/event/going-against-the-grain-with-a-legume-2026/
LOCATION:The Good Life Center\, 372 Harborside Road\, Harborside\, 04642\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:Swordfish in Wabanaki Homeland
DESCRIPTION: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 rostra\, vertebrae\, and other remains\, indicating that Wabanaki ancestors harvested and processed these large fish for millennia. In this presentation\, Dr. Bonnie Newsom will discuss the presence of swordfish in Wabanaki homeland and what these archaeological data reveal about past marine conditions\, Wabanaki fishing practices\, and how climate change affected local ecosystems. Through archaeological study of swordfish remains from the Gulf of Maine\, we can appreciate the sophisticated relationship Indigenous peoples had with swordfish specifically\, and the marine environment more broadly. \nDr. Bonnie Newsom is a member of the Penobscot Nation and an archaeologist interested in the pre-contact lifeways of Wabanaki peoples. She is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Faculty in the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine. She and her husband Les are both military veterans and they live in Eddington\, Maine. \nSuggested donation: $10
URL:https://goodlife.org/event/swordfish-in-wabanaki-homeland-2026/
LOCATION:The Good Life Center\, 372 Harborside Road\, Harborside\, 04642\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260823T160000
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SUMMARY:Mobile Commoning: How Sharing is Caring in a Climate Hope World
DESCRIPTION: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 enclosure by moving more lightly across places\, from swamps and forests to urban edges and oceans. Can sharing energy\, food\, and transport help us achieve more ethical relations of trans-species climate justice? \nMimi Sheller is an internationally recognized scholar in mobility studies—movement and migration\, Caribbean studies\, climate adaptation\, and the politics of mobility. She is the Dean of The Global School at Worcester Polytechnic Institute\, and a part-time Brooksville neighbor. \nSuggested donation: $10
URL:https://goodlife.org/event/mobile-commoning-2026/
LOCATION:The Good Life Center\, 372 Harborside Road\, Harborside\, 04642\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260830T160000
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SUMMARY:Protect Ancient Forests
DESCRIPTION: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 shapes their fate\, and what it looks like to build a movement on their behalf. Drawing on law\, education\, and deep roots in the Maine landscape\, they’ll invite us to join them. \nAlyssa O’Brien brings a background in psychology and elementary education to her conviction that caring for the natural world is something we do on behalf of future generations; Michael O’Brien holds a JD from the University of Maine School of Law and spent years as a nonpartisan policy analyst for the Maine Legislature’s Agriculture\, Conservation and Forestry Committee. Together\, from their home on the coast of Maine\, they co-founded Protect Ancient Forests to build the broad coalitions they believe are necessary to permanently protect what remains. \nSuggested donation: $10
URL:https://goodlife.org/event/protect-ancient-forests-2026/
LOCATION:The Good Life Center\, 372 Harborside Road\, Harborside\, 04642\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260913T160000
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SUMMARY:Loving and Leaving the Good Life
DESCRIPTION: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 life walking alongside people in their hardest moments and arriving at something like the same conclusion. In this talk\, she will reflect on grief\, presence\, and what it means to face mortality. \nReverend Doctor Kate Braestrup is a Unitarian Universalist minister and bestselling author of many books\, including the award-winning memoir\, Here If You Need Me. She has spent over two decades as chaplain to the Maine Warden Service—accompanying wardens and grieving families through loss in the deep woods. \nSuggested donation: $10
URL:https://goodlife.org/event/loving-and-leaving-the-good-life-2026/
LOCATION:The Good Life Center\, 372 Harborside Road\, Harborside\, 04642\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 Speaker Series
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