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Good Intentions Are Not Enough: How The Peace Movement Hobbled Defense Conversion In Maine [Adams], With Reply How The Peace Movement Encouraged Defense Conversion In Maine [Schweppe], Stephen J. Adams, Susie Schweppe
Good Intentions Are Not Enough: How The Peace Movement Hobbled Defense Conversion In Maine [Adams], With Reply How The Peace Movement Encouraged Defense Conversion In Maine [Schweppe], Stephen J. Adams, Susie Schweppe
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The Maine Economic Conversion Project: Promoting A Sustainable Future, Susie Schweppe, Nicholas Karvonides
The Maine Economic Conversion Project: Promoting A Sustainable Future, Susie Schweppe, Nicholas Karvonides
Maine Policy Review
For the past five years, a small, but dedicated group of Mainers has been working on the perplexing and sometimes controversial issue of defense conversion. The Portland-based Economic Conversion Project (ECP), an initiative of the Maine Peace Fund, sees opportunity in the nation’s defense downsizing efforts where others see only adversity. Among other goals, the private, non-profit ECP wants to create a sustainable economy that is more responsive to public need than to the disintegrating military industrial complex. Susie Schweppe and Nicholas Karvonides of ECP recently discussed with Maine Policy Review the status of their project and the challenges confrontingMaine …