Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions

The Second International Conference of the Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI) co-sponsored by the Mitchell Center took place on the UMaine campus June15-17.  The theme of the conference was “Transitions Beyond a Consumer Society” and was attended by experts and scholars from 20 different countries and included observers from the World Bank, the […]

After graduating from St. Michael’s College in Colchester, Vermont in 2012 with a degree in biology, Connecticut native Emma Fox became an AmeriCorps Environmental Educator at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. Read more…

For UMaine Honors College freshman and Ecology and Environmental Sciences major Chantal Bussiere, signing up for the one-credit Seminar in Sustainability Solutions (EES 397) class offered each semester by the George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions was a no-brainer. Read more…

UMaine rising senior Sierra Kuun has been awarded the 2016-17 Margaret Chase Smith Public Affairs Scholarship for work she has been doing as an intern at the Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions as part of the Materials Management team. Read more…

As part of the New England Sustainability Consortium project work, Kathleen Bell of the UMaine School of Economics, her master’s student Abigal Kaminski, and Keri Kaczor of UMaine Cooperative Extension recently attended the 2016 EPA Recreational Waters Conference in Washington, D.C. where Kaminski presented a poster titled “An Economic Evaluation of Safety Information on Coastal Beaches.” Read […]

Getting UMaine to commit to 20 percent “real food” by 2020 is a challenge for undergraduates UMaine Honors College senior Audrey Cross has been working hard these past two and a half years trying to get students a seat at the table—the dinner table, it could be said. As a member of the  Honors College Sustainable […]

UMaine’s Sharon Klein tracks the rise of community solar  Sharon Klein has had an interest in environmental issues from her middle school years right through her time at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where she earned a bachelor’s degree in environmental science. But it wasn’t until Klein was teaching a high school “environmental systems” course […]

Had high school senior Brianne Suldovsky not encountered the novel “Sophie’s World” in her Advance Placement English class, she likely would not be heading off to the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center for a postdoctoral fellowship in the Science of Science Communication. The book details events as a 14-year-old Norwegian girl corresponds with […]

Linda Silka’s transformation from a conventional social and community psychologist into the interdisciplinary, bridge-building and problem-solving role she fills at the Mitchell Center began in 1994 at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. “I started out doing straight social psychology research and teaching first-year general psychology students at UMass Lowell,” Silka says. “That’s all I knew how […]

The Maine Science Festival included a Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions session on the components and complexities of Maine’s solid waste stream On Friday, March 18 at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor, the three-day 2016 Maine Science Festival got underway as hordes of students from around the state took part in numerous, diverse exhibits […]