Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions

SPEAKER: Bill Sheehan, Founder, UPSTREAM Policy Institute *See below a list of suggested readings to accompany this seminar. Sustainability is a master term used by all parties who are concerned with climate change and related global ecological and social “wicked problems.” But sustainability has different historical and cultural meanings that grew out of contrasting worldviews […]

SPEAKER: Heather Leslie, Director, Darling Marine Center and Libra Associate Professor, School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine *See below a list of suggested readings to accompany this seminar. Sustaining marine fisheries has often been approached as a technical challenge. The thinking is that more and better knowledge of ecosystem and economic dynamics, and the […]

SPEAKER: Darren Ranco, Chair, Native American Programs, Associate Professor, Dept. of Anthropology & Senator George J. Mitchell Center *See below a list of suggested readings to accompany this seminar. The theme of adaptation to rapid environmental change dominates academic language and funding. In this talk, I will explore the challenges/opportunities in our work with basketmakers […]

SPEAKER: Jack C. Schmidt, Professor of Stream Geomorphology, Utah State University The Rio Grande and the Colorado River are the two great rivers of western North America shared by Mexico and the United States. Both rivers carry snowmelt from the Rocky Mountains across semiarid and arid regions where water demand is high, and both rivers […]