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  • SEMINAR: Where service learning meets sustainability: Connecting classrooms with communities for stewardship and civic engagement

    107 Norman Smith Hall Mitchell Center - UMaine, Orono, ME, United States

    SPEAKERS: UMaine Environmental Stewardship Service-Learning Group (Claire Sullivan, Dan Dixon, Cindy Isenhour, Sandra DeUrioste-Stone, Bridie McGreavy, Sharon Klein) * See below for a list of suggested readings to accompany this seminar. The University of Maine’s comprehensive sustainability efforts improve lives and communities throughout the state of Maine and beyond. One of UMaine’s educational goals is […]

    Free

  • SEMINAR – Talking Trash: The Sustainability Challenge Hiding in Plain Sight

    107 Norman Smith Hall Mitchell Center - UMaine, Orono, ME, United States

    SPEAKERS: Solid Waste/Materials Management Working Team (participants have included Karen Bieluch, Travis Blackmer, Jack Brannigan, George Criner, Cindy Isenhour, Jean MacRae, John Peckenham, Avi Rude, Jena Rudolph, Linda Silka, and David Hart) *Please see below a list of suggested readings to accompany this seminar One of Maine’s most pressing sustainability problems is materials management. What […]

    Free

  • SEMINAR: Adaptive Management: So You Say It’s a Key to Resilience?

    107 Norman Smith Hall Mitchell Center - UMaine, Orono, ME, United States

    SPEAKER: Joshua Stoll, Doctoral Candidate, School of Marine Sciences, Robert and Patricia Switzer Fellow * See below a list of suggested readings to accompany this seminar. Many scholars have called for a paradigm shift in fisheries governance away from management approaches that require definitive information about stock size and dynamics to those that build social-ecological […]

    Free

  • Maine Stormwater Conference

    Portland Marriott at Sable Oaks South Portland, ME, United States

    The biennial Maine Stormwater Conference brings together municipal, state, and federal employees; engineers; planners; academics; and other professionals to learn about and discuss stormwater management. The 2015 Conference will feature: Relevant, real-world examples of innovative stormwater management. Topics applicable to decision makers and practitioners, alike. A trade show of vendors to provide stormwater solutions. An […]

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  • SEMINAR – Community Solar: Harnessing the Power of the People

    107 Norman Smith Hall Mitchell Center - UMaine, Orono, ME, United States

    SPEAKER: Sharon Klein, Assistant Professor, School of Economics, UMaine * See below a list of suggested readings to accompany this seminar. “Community energy” is a growing movement in the US […]

    Free

  • SEMINAR – From Anthropogenic Ecosystems to Zoonoses: Emerging Issues in Conservation

    107 Norman Smith Hall Mitchell Center - UMaine, Orono, ME, United States

    EES 590 Course Presentations Instructors: Aram Calhoun, Malcolm Hunter Presentations will present a synoptic overview of several emerging ideas in conservation science—conservation psychology, ecosystem resilience, contemporary evolution, and more—leading to […]