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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, ME, United States

    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, ME, United States

    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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  • SEANET Seminar – Off the Menu? Mussel Byssal Attachment in a Warmer, High CO2 Ocean

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

    Speaker: Emily Carrington Professor, Department of Biology, University of Washington National Science Foundation, Program Director, Physiological Mechanisms and Biomechanics Emily Carrington is a professor of Biology at the University of Washington and a National Science Foundation program director. Carrington’s research program, in its broadest sense, investigates the physiological ecology of marine organisms. She is particularly […]

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  • TALK — From frog fungus to smashed dams; Maine science journalism and the (messed-up) food chain of news

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

    Maine is fertile ground for environmental journalists. It’s got marine waters, estuaries and rivers, great ponds and little bogs, rugged peaks and thousands of miles of woodlands. All of these become controversial from time to time, with conflicts over everything from dams and wind turbines to clearcutting, wetlands and shoreland zoning. If that’s not enough, […]

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  • TALK – Can Maine Prosper? Research, Leadership & Partnership for Economic Growth

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

    Speaker: Yellow Light Breen, President & CEO, Maine Development Foundation Leadership: Intangible. Elusive. Indispensable. Maine Development Foundation has almost 40 years of  experience convening, developing, and catalyzing leadership from state […]

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  • TALK – with Douglas Rooks, Author of “Statesman: George Mitchell and the Art of the Possible”

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

    Title: George Mitchell: Building Consensus on Taxes, the Environment, and War Speaker: Douglas Rooks, Author of “Statesman: George Mitchell and the Art of the Possible” About the book: The first full-length account of the life and career of one of Maine’s most notable citizens, and a public figure of national and international standing, Statesman traces […]

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  • TALK – Food and Water Go Well Together – Pairing Stakeholder Engagement with Agriculture and Water Quality Management in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

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

    Kelly Shenk, Agricultural Advisor, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region III Gary Shenk, Hydrologist, USGS at the Chesapeake Bay Program Office People, food and water have an inherently inseparable relationship. Clean water depends on healthy viable farms, and profitable farms depend on clean water. So why is it that farmers and environmentalists often are pitted against […]

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  • TALK – Shifting Mindset: The Importance of Systems Thinking to Sustainability Leadership and Education

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

    Speaker: Betty J. Woodman, Ph.D. Maine Business School, University of Maine What is a “mindset,” and how does it relate to sustainability outcomes? This talk addresses systems-based research into a “sustainability mindset.” Findings illuminate the effects of nonrational motivations and power relations as well as connections between the social, organizational, and environmental challenges we face. […]

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Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions
5710 Norman Smith Hall Orono, ME 04469-5710
Tel: 207.581.3195 Fax: umgmc@maine.edu
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