Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions

Materials Management through Sustainable Consumption: Research, Policy and Practice Cindy Isenhour, Dept. of Anthropology, UMaine A significant body of research suggests that production efficiencies are unlikely to result in environmental improvements adequate to avoid “dangerous” climate change, resource depletion, and increasingly significant waste management issues. This is, in part, because rapidly growing levels of consumption […]

Eco-evolutionary implications of environmental change across heterogeneous landscapes Jared Homola,  Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology

From Molecules to Mountains: Studying the Impacts of Global Change on Wildlife Habitat Dr. Toni Lyn Morelli - Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Conservation; Postdoctoral Researcher, DOI Northeast Climate Science Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Candidate for the position of Assistant Professor of Wildlife Habitat Ecology in WFCB

Energy Behaviors:  Do we see moral licensing? Caroline Noblet, School of Econnomics 201 Winslow Hall

Serpentine: Evolutionary Ecology of a Model System Dr. Nishanta Rajakaruna, College of the Atlantic Serpentine habitats are home to many rare and endemic species, providing model settings for studies in ecology, evolution, and conservation. The presentation summarizes current research on serpentine plant-habitat relations in North America and explores how adaptation to serpentine and other extreme […]