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SUMMARY:Talk - For Climate's Sake - Stop Wasting Food!
DESCRIPTION:The talk will be held virtually via Zoom and in-person at 107 Norman Smith Hall\, UMaine\, Orono. \n\nVirtual attendance: Complete the registration form for Zoom connection information\n\nSpeakers: \n\nMegan Mansfield-Pryor\, Waste Management Climate Policy Advisor\, Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future\nSusanne Lee\, Team Leader\, Food Rescue MAINE\, Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions\, UMaine\n\nLearn about the latest research linking wasted food & food loss with climate change – and what Maine is doing about it. \nMegan Mansfield-Pryor is a Waste Management Climate Policy Advisor with the Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future. Prior to joining GOPIF\, Megan was an Environmental Specialist with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection\, where she oversaw and administered the architectural paint\, mercury thermostat\, and mercury lamp product stewardship programs and provided outreach\, education\, and technical assistance to municipalities and businesses to meet specific situational needs in waste reduction and recycling efforts. From 2017-2023\, Megan served on the board of the Northeast Recycling Council and the Education Committee of the Maine Resource Recovery Association\, and she brings extensive experience with regional collaboration and sustainable materials management. She holds a master’s degree in Policy\, Planning\, and Management with a concentration in Sustainable Development and a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Planning and Policy from the University of Southern Maine. \nSusanne Lee is a faculty fellow with the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine. Susanne’s career as an entrepreneurial business executive saw her successfully creating\, launching and operating multi-million-dollar consumer products brands and businesses with Fortune 100 companies as well as lean start-ups. She joined the Mitchell Center in fall 2021 where she leads a team working directly with state\, business\, and community stakeholders as well as national and global food waste experts to develop solutions to end food waste in Maine.
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SUMMARY:Talk - It's all about the grid: the past\, present and future of energy in Maine
DESCRIPTION:The talk will be held virtually via Zoom and in-person at 107 Norman Smith Hall\, UMaine\, Orono. \n\nVirtual attendance: Complete the registration form for Zoom connection information\n\nSpeaker: Kate Cough\, Editor\, The Maine Monitor \nJoin Maine energy reporter Kate Cough for a discussion on the history of electricity generation in Maine\, recent efforts to shake up the system and what a transition to the grid of the future might look like. Cough will give an overview of the changes that have shaped Maine’s energy landscape since the late 1990s\, when the Legislature effectively banned grid owners from owning and operating generation plants and how those changes have influenced today’s landscape as the state looks to incorporate more renewable energy sources and meet its climate goals. \nKate Cough is editor of The Maine Monitor. She previously served as enterprise editor for The Monitor while also covering energy and the environment and writing the weekly Climate Monitor newsletter. Before joining The Monitor\, Kate was a beat reporter for The Ellsworth American and digital media strategist for The Ellsworth American and Mount Desert Islander. Kate graduated with honors from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Magna Cum Laude from Bryn Mawr College. Kate is an eighth generation Mainer who lives on Mount Desert Island with her husband\, daughter\, and dogs.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mitchellcenter/event/talk-its-all-about-the-grid-the-past-present-and-future-of-energy-in-maine/
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SUMMARY:Talk - Gulf of Maine development: What can fishing teach us?
DESCRIPTION:The talk will be held virtually via Zoom and in-person at 107 Norman Smith Hall\, UMaine\, Orono. \n\nVirtual attendance: Complete the registration form for Zoom connection information\n\nSpeaker: Robin Alden\, former Director\, Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries \nUse conflicts are front and center in the Gulf of Maine as industrial-scale wind power and aquaculture development gain momentum and significant public and private investment. Looking more closely at fishing uses\, can we learn something from an aspirational industry that seeks to create value by operating within the Gulf’s changing ecology\, not just to use it as a place to do business? Robin Alden will explore the Gulf as a complex system and policy that could contribute to fishing forever. \nRobin Alden has been involved in fisheries since the early 1970s when she founded Commercial Fisheries News. She was a public member of New England Fishery Management Council\, was Maine Commissioner of Marine Resources in the first King Administration and co-founded the Maine Fishermen’s Forum and Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries\, which she led for 15 years. Retired since 2018\, she is writing about the last 50 years in New England’s fisheries. She has a BA in Economics from the University of Maine and lives in Stonington with her husband\, Ted Ames.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mitchellcenter/event/talk-gulf-of-maine-development-what-can-fishing-teach-us/
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