Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions

Maine-based journalist and author Murray Carpenter kicks off the Spring 2017  Mitchell Center Seminar series on January 23…  Maine-based journalist and author Murray Carpenter has long been drawn to environmental and science stories and, in particular, those about fisheries and amphibians. Among other topics, the Belfast resident and freelance writer will tell some fish and […]

2016 Award Categories Outstanding contribution toward the development of a solution by a research team  A team that has helped link knowledge with action to effectively contribute to a real-world solutions  Interdisciplinary Research Team Award for Outstanding Progress on “The Road to Solutions” New England Sustainability Cooperative (NEST) Decision Support Systems Team — Sean Smith, Brian […]

Dam removal expert Laura Wildman closes out the 2016 Mitchell Center Speaker Series… Upon introducing Laura Wildman—last week’s speaker for the Mitchell Center’s final Fall 2016 Seminar Series talk—David Hart, director of the Mitchell Center and lead scientist on the center’s Future of Dams project, paraphrased the title of the bestselling 1989 book “All I Really […]

December 15, 2016 ORONO — Cooperation in groups of resource users may be key to sustaining the environment, according to a new study using mathematical and computational modeling. Timothy Waring, an associate professor at the University of Maine, is the lead developer of the new model that simulates how societies with different social structures and […]

Eight students get five minutes each to talk up UMaine sustainability projects… The topics run the gamut from cheesemaking startup businesses and the reuse of material goods to building energy-saving window inserts, weed management on organic farms, and engaging citizen scientists to investigate lake water quality. The tie that binds all the topics is sustainability […]

A key figure in the development of UMaine’s Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions is lauded for “helping lay the foundation for sustainable geography” By David Sims Robert Kates, recipient of the National Medal of Science, winner of a MacArthur “genius prize,” and Presidential Professor of Sustainability Science at the University of Maine, has been awarded […]

Ecological and economic anthropologist Cindy Isenhour’s photographic exhibit at the UMaine Hudson Museum explores Maine’s thriving reuse economy By David Sims UMaine assistant professor of anthropology and Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions associate Cindy Isenhour attended college as a business communications major—with minors in marketing and management, worked as an account executive for an advertising […]

Linda Silka gives keynote address at UNE Campuses for Environmental Stewardship Best Practice Showcase When you hear the phrase “student service learning,” you might immediately imagine college kids volunteering time in their community using aspects of their majors—food science, say—spending evenings at a local food pantry serving those gathered for a hot meal to get […]

Ph.D. student Andrew Newcomb banks his future on the Future of Dams Only months after completing his bachelor’s degree at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, and fresh from a stint as a field technician for the National Aquatic Monitoring Center based in Utah, Andrew Newcomb had no immediate plans to pursue a post-graduate degree. Until, […]

Newly arrived on the UMaine campus, assistant professor Aaron Strong kept a promise and returned to Maine to help the state meet its sustainability challenges When Aaron Strong was ready to leave home for college, friends and mentors of the 2001 Maine state high school debate champ wished him all the success in his educational […]