{"id":1253,"date":"2013-05-08T16:02:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T16:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2013-05-08T16:02:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T16:02:27","slug":"alan-caron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/alan-caron\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 60: Creator of Envision Maine Alan Caron"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show Information<\/h5>\n

Show:<\/strong>\u00a060
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday, May 4
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Alan Caron
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Mark Gould (Sharky)
\nAssistant Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

While in the TideSmart Talk with Stevoe studios, Alan Caron, creator of Envision Maine, discussed his career, including how he became the first high school dropout to be admitted to a mid-career Master’s degree program at at Harvard University\u2019s Kennedy School of Government.<\/p>\n

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TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods (left) welcomed Creator of Envision Maine Alan Caron (right)\u00a0to the Falmouth studio.<\/p><\/div>\n

In 2002, Caron created a new statewide organization, GrowSmart Maine.\u00a0 This organization was started with the hopes for a stronger economy and for the protection of the state\u2019s natural and historic character. \u00a0From 2003-2009 Caron served as President of GrowSmart Maine, which was then based in Yarmouth.<\/p>\n

During Caron\u2019s time with GrowSmart, he helped to raise funds to bring the Brookings Institution to Maine for a major study of the state’s economy and environment.\u00a0 This 2006 study, entitled \u201cCharting Maine\u2019s Future: An Action Plan for Promoting Sustainable Prosperity and Quality Places\u201d, discusses how Maine is changing, the challenges and opportunities we face, and offered a \u2018Blueprint for Action\u2019 for growing Maine in the 21st century. \u00a0\u201cCharting Maine\u2019s Future\u201d is now widely regarded as a framework for current and future change in Maine.<\/p>\n

2009 brought the start of Envision Maine<\/a>, \u201cThe Independent Think Tank for Maine.\u201d \u00a0The primary interest of Envision Maine is to move Maine toward a more sustainable and vibrant economy.\u00a0 Caron estimates that over the next 3-6 months Envision Maine will really ramp up its activity and start leading Mainers toward a shared vision of our future.<\/p>\n

In 2010, Caron published \u201cReinventing Maine Government\u201d.\u00a0 This report compares Maine to the rest of the nation and looks at what Maine can do over the next 10 years to replace its inefficient government with new, more streamlined operations.<\/p>\n

Caron also is a contributing columnist to the Portland Press Herald.\u00a0 His interests include history, golf, gardening, canoeing, sailing and flying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods (left) was joined in the studio by the creator of Envsion Maine Alan Caron (right). Caron described himself as a lifelong learner and told the story of how he only completed two months of high school and then went on to be the first high school dropout admitted to a mid-career Master\u2019s degree program at Harvard University\u2019s Kennedy School of Government. The two also discussed Envsion Maine’s goal and how Mainers need to develop a shared picture of the future. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}