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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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SEMINAR – Damned If You Do, Dammed If You Don’t: The Evolution of Pro-Active Dam Removal over the Last Quarter Century

107 Norman Smith Hall Mitchell Center - UMaine, Orono

Speaker: Laura Wildman, Director, New England Regional Office, Princeton Hydro People have been building dams since prerecorded history. Dams have served a wide variety of economically valuable purposes including water supply, irrigation, navigation, flood control, mechanical and hydroelectric power, and recreation.  However with the rapid progression of dam building in the US also came significant […]

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