Healthy Waterville will be hosting the Purple Bag Savings Challenge on Thursday, May 11 at the Downtown Waterville Farmers’ Market as part of Maine Composts Week. Contestants will be given a purple bag full of many household waste items. Before they start they will be see the bag’s weight. Participants will be timed as they […]
Mark King and Jay Duncan from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection will be doing a composting demonstration for the Mars Hill Middle School
Damming Decisions: Searching for sustainable solutions in New England rivers Speaker: Sam Roy, Postdoctoral Researcher, Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions and New England Sustainability Consortium Sam will talk about work he and his colleagues have done to explore how decisions to remove, keep, or modify dams in New England can initiate trade […]
Speaker: Melanie Loyzim, Deputy Commissioner, Maine Department of Environmental Protection Melanie Loyzim is the Deputy Commissioner of the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (Maine DEP). She has been with the […]
Facts vs. Values: How Can We Make Better Decisions? Keynote Speaker: Thomas Dietz, Professor of Sociology and Environmental Science and Policy and Assistant Vice President for Environmental Research Center for […]
The Sustainable Plate - Reflections of a US Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee Member Speaker: Miriam Nelson, Director, Sustainability Institute, University of New Hampshire Questions to be addressed in the talk: […]
Speaker: Anthony Charles, School of the Environment and School of Business, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia Co-sponsored by the School of Marine Sciences Place-based communities the world over face local environmental threats, whether from industrial activity, resource depletion, pollution, climate change, urbanization or other causes. In response, many communities are acting as stewards of […]
Speaker: Karin Limburg, Professor, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry Worldwide, fish populations are in decline. Once formerly abundant species now are increasingly threatened, endangered, or extirpated, and most commercial fisheries have “max’d out” their capacity. The root cause is pressure from human activities, both directly from fishing and indirectly […]
