Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions

Presenters: Tyler Quiring, Research Associate, New England Sustainability Consortium, UMaine Bridie McGreavy, Communication & Journalism, UMaine Sustainability science is an innovative field that relies on collaborative connections among a broad range of academic disciplines, community partners, and public stakeholders. But how can sustainability science produce outputs that tap into the diversity of these connections to […]

Gerry Wright "becomes Olmsted," entering into his emotional extremes, intellectual depths and spirited power."Olmsted" shares his uncanny life and works in part responsible for the creating and saving Natural Wonders across America. He shares his views in the "Yosemite Report" of 1865 which was the "seed" for the creation of National Parks and much more. […]

SPEAKER: Phoebe Barnard, South African National Biodiversity Institute We may think we know where the world is headed, but our toolbox is both slim and skewed toward lessons and assumptions […]

SPEAKER: Sam Lake, Emeritus Professor, Monash Univeristy, Melbourne, Australia Co-sponsored by the School of Biology & Ecology After receiving his PH.D from the University of Southampton, in 1967 Dr. Sam Lake was appointed to the Zoology Department of the University of Tasmania where his research focus was mainly on the impacts of heavy metals on […]

SPEAKER: Aaron Strong, Assistant Professor, School of Marine Sciences, UMaine Through rapid and persistent anthropogenic global change, we now recognize that human activity is at risk of fundamentally altering the functioning of the earth system. The consequences for human livelihoods of such changes are likely to be devastating. As humanity has entered the Anthropocene, there […]

Speaker: Travis P. Wagner, University of Southern Maine A key goal of sustainable materials management is to maximize the use and reuse of materials more productively over their entire lifecycles and in part by minimizing disposal. However, given that the North American model of relying primarily on local governments for managing municipal solid waste (MSW), […]

Speaker: Heather Deese, Vice President of Research and Strategy, Island Institute In response to community requests for more and better data and analyses, the Island Institute launched a new initiative in January 2016 to work through partnerships to ensure local leaders have the social, economic, and environmental information they need. This seminar will present a […]

Speakers: Aram Calhoun and Malcolm 'Mac' Hunter, Professors, Dept. of Wildlife, Fisheries, & Conservation Biology, Mitchell Center Fellows, UMaine Seminar is co-sponsored by the Dept. of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology at UMaine. Small Natural Features (SNFs) are analogous to keystone species in that they have ecological importance that is disproportionate to their small size. […]