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Hudson Museum Exhibit – Resourceful ME: Exploring the Value of Maine’s Reuse Economies

Hudson Museum Collins Center for the Arts, University of Maine, Orono

Cindy Isenhour doesn’t subscribe to the adage “out with the old, in with the new.” The planet can’t sustain it, says the assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Maine. Consider, she says, that each American annually throws away 1,400 pounds of stuff and that 11,000 gallons of water are used to produce one […]

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2016 Mitchell Lecture on Sustainability: Between Optimism and Pessimism: Our Unending Pursuit to Feed Civilization

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Ruth DeFries, Denning Family Professor of Sustainable Development, Columbia University This lecture will be held in the Wells Conference Center on the UMaine Orono campus at 1 p.m. DeFries is a professor of ecology and sustainable development at Columbia University. She is a recipient of the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship and many other academic awards, as well as […]

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