Mission Statement
"Our mission is to build community
through neighbors helping neighbors, by exchanging our talents and services."
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About Us
In this region surrounding Merrymeeting Bay, we are privileged to draw our membership from a population wealthy in innovation, resourcefulness, creativity, skills, talent and wisdom. By exchanging these energies we strengthen ourselves as individuals, families, and communities while enhancing the quality of our lives.
Merrymeeting Community Shares is a system of commerce and community building adapted to our changing times. We are concerned with reinterpreting personal wealth and understanding that security is built on awareness and respect for our mutual vulnerability and interdependence. As we acknowledge the uncertainty of these times, we face the challenge and opportunity to take charge of our lives by exercising personal and community responsibility. The vulnerability of the systems we depend on and have long taken for granted is more apparent these days.
• employment security
• the financial systems in which we have invested our faith and our future
• the sources of the energy that supports our lifestyles
• the education of our children
• the quality our food supply
Issues that we used to delegate to bosses, bankers and government are all aspects of life for which we must now assume personal responsibility.
Here in the Bath/Brunswick area, individuals, groups and organizations have moved on from identifying the problems to finding solutions that suit the needs of our region. Merrymeeting Community Shares is one of those organizations. Other grass root initiatives include:
Brunswick Parks and Gardens, Brunswick Permaculture, Cool Bath, Community Sponsored Agriculture, Five Rivers Arts Alliance, Friends of Merrymeeting Bay, Peaceworks, Transition Greater Brunswick (with its focus groups on local economics, energy, and food) Winter Farmers Market, Wolfeneck Farm and many more... View the growing community.
These and others are working to build a vibrant and resilient local way of life for everyone. Implementing these systems not only provides our communities with replicable, resilient alternatives to the status quo in the face of any eventuality, but also generally improves the quality of our lives currently and for generations to come. As we continue to make these choices we may find ourselves living in the town of our dreams!
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