What are the most important energy challenges facing the State of Maine? What problems are we trying to solve and how do policy makers craft solutions to address the most critical issues? Read more...
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 […]
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. […]
Laura N. Rickard, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication & Journalism and UMaine Sustainable Ecological Aquaculture Network (SEANET) As wild fisheries decline, aquaculture – the cultivation of aquatic organisms, such as […]
Maine's forest products industry has been declining for years, forcing closure of six pulp and paper mills in the last three years and reductions in workforce in others. Expiring contracts, […]
Matt Liebman, Iowa State University The development of modern, industrial agriculture has been characterized by large reductions in biological diversity, both across landscapes and within farming systems. Loss of biodiversity […]
Joseph Zydlewski Professor, Wildlife, Fisheries, & Conservation Biology Assistant Unit Leader, USGS Maine Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Dams affect fish species in some obvious ways. These effects, and […]
Speaker: David R. Maidment, University of Texas at Austin In August 2016 the National Weather Service launched the new National Water Model, which continually forecasts the flow in 2.7 million stream reaches covering 3.2 million miles of rivers and streams of the continental United States. From atmosphere to the oceans, from coast to coast, water […]
Timothy Downs Associate Professor of Environmental Science & Policy, Clark University There is much to be gained from taking a much more integrative view of the sustainability challenges of mega-cities […]
"Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Composting but Were Afraid to Ask." This will be going on simultaneously to a campus trash sort on April 18th that we hope […]
