Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions

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 from the wealthy North. Most of our ecological paradigms are still drawn from north-temperate regions, while the very different southern hemisphere has dawdled in fields […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Northern Maine Children’s Water Festival promotes hands on learning about water issues. This one-day event bring together over 600 students and their teachers.

Speakers: New England Sustainability Consortium (NEST) Decision Support Systems Team Kate Beard (Computing and Information Science), Damian Brady (Marine Sciences), Brian McGill (Biology and Ecology, Mitchell Center), Bridie McGreavy (Communication […]