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SEMINAR – Second Nature: A historian’s search for sustainability in New England

107 Norman Smith Hall Mitchell Center - UMaine, Orono

Speaker: Richard Judd, Professor, Dept. of History, UMaine While New England is known nationally for the value it places on nature, it is difficult to show just how this consciousness shaped environmental politics. What exactly was the environmental movement in New England? Campaigns were localized and involved complicated negotiations between governments and nonprofit groups, but […]

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SEMINAR – When Farming is like Fishing: Helping Farmers Understand Landscape Effects, Lessons from the Bee Mapper

107 Norman Smith Hall Mitchell Center - UMaine, Orono

Sam Hanes, Dept. of Anthropology, UMaine and Brianne Du Clos, PhD Student, Ecology & Environmental Sciences, UMaine A major problem for agricultural sustainability is that many innovations involve uncertainty. For example, in crop pollination, farmers have two source: commerical honey bee rentals or wild bees. The latter are to hard to assess and so managing […]