Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions

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, […]

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 policymakers and CEOs down to local downtowns. How do we use research, analysis, and experiential learning to drive collaborative action? How do we use cross-sector […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 is particularly evident in the U.S. Corn Belt. Simplification of crop and non-crop vegetation in the Corn Belt has resulted in the production of huge […]