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 […]
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 […]
