{"id":2251,"date":"2014-01-10T23:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T23:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=2251"},"modified":"2014-01-13T23:01:45","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T23:01:45","slug":"alix-hopkins-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/alix-hopkins-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 94: Consultant, Author & Director of the Biddeford RiverWalk Coalition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show:<\/strong>\u00a094
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0January 4
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Alix Hopkins
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Alix Hopkins<\/a>\u00a0is a consultant, an author and\u00a0the director of the Biddeford RiverWalk Coalition.\u00a0 Hopkins\u00a0grew up on a farm outside of Baltimore, Maryland.\u00a0 She attended Goucher College.\u00a0 As a child her family often came to Mount Desert, where her love for the outdoors and Maine began.<\/p>\n

Long associated with conservation efforts in southern Maine, Hopkins has more than 30 years of work on local, regional and international projects.\u00a0 She has served as staff, volunteered as a board member, and advised others. She specializes in giving life to good ideas, working on projects that join the environment, economy, art and culture, and social justice.<\/p>\n

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Host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe\u00a0Steve Woods (left)\u00a0recently sat down with\u00a0the Director of the Biddeford RiverWalk Coalition Alix Hopkins (right).<\/p><\/div>\n

Hopkins was the first full-time director at Portland Trails in the early 1990s. At the time, public\/private partnerships were more unusual, requiring a certain civic entrepreneurial leadership style, combined with a talented, dedicated, perseverant group of volunteers.<\/p>\n

Hopkins told Stevoe\u00a0that after she left Portland Trails, she traveled around the U.S. gathering stories and how it became an empowering experience of collaboration.\u00a0 The outcome of this experience became Hopkins\u2019 book, \u201cGroundswell:\u00a0 Stories of Saving Places, Finding Community\u201d, and\u00a0has helped inspire and train emerging community leaders across the country.<\/p>\n

Presently she directs the Biddeford-Saco RiverWalk Coalition, promoting an urban trail along the Saco River, uniting the two cities and enhancing the renaissance in these two redeveloping mill towns.<\/p>\n

Alix lives in Pownal and is active on a number of local and regional conservation and community development-oriented boards. She is at work on a new book of stories from the Middle East, based on her experiences as an exchange facilitator in the region. While in the region, she was astounded by the talent, dedication, resourcefulness, kindness and courage of the people she met there. Their projects are becoming quiet but powerful peace building tools because they transcend geographic, cultural and geographic boundaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Consultant, author and director of the Biddeford RiverWalk Coalition Alix Hopkins stopped by the TideSmart Talk with Stevoe studio to talk with host Steve Woods about her career in land conservation and how lucky she feels to have found her niche. Hopkins talked about how conservation has grown over the past 20 years to be very inclusive and all encompassing and how the government has come to recognize its vitality. 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\/2251"}],"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=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}