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Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions

  • TALK: Frankenfood or Farm Fresh? Communicating Aquaculture’s Promises and Perils

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

    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 […]

    Free
  • The New Forest Economy- Biobased Power, Products, & Fuels

    Maple Hill Farm 11 Inn Road, Hallowell, ME, United States

    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, […]

    $15.00 – $30.00
  • TALK – Dams and Fish: Understanding our impounded legacy

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

    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 […]

    Free
  • TALK – From magnifying glass to microscope: the new National Water Model

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

    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 […]

    Free
  • Live Composting Demonstration @ St. Joseph’s College

    Mercy Hall, St. Josephs 278 Whites Bridge Rd, Standish, ME, United States

    "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 […]

  • Water Environment Careers Meeting

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

    Find out more about Protecting our Water Environment Would you like to know about... Where are employment opportunities in the Environmental field? What strategies will help students be successful in […]

    Free
  • Southern Maine Organic Pilots Tabling

    Southern Maine

    Tabling at Hannafords in South Portland and Scarborough from 11am-3pm on Saturday April 22.  Information about food waste pilots as well as counter-top bins will be available.

  • TALK – Let’s get emotional about wildlife conservation!

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

    Carly Sponarski, Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology, UMaine Humans are the underlying factor in conflicts concerning how wildlife should be managed (Manfredo, Teel, & Bright, 2003). For management planning to […]

    Free
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