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SUMMARY:Hudson Museum Exhibit - Resourceful ME: Exploring the Value of Maine’s Reuse Economies
DESCRIPTION:Cindy Isenhour doesn’t subscribe to the adage “out with the old\, in with the new.” \nThe planet can’t sustain it\, says the assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Maine. \nConsider\, 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 pair of jeans. \nIsenhour is working with a team of scholars at the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions to investigate the reuse\, repair and resale of objects as they relate to conserving Earth’s resources and helping to ensure more resilient and just economies for future generations. \nTo share some of her findings\, Isenhour’s exhibit “Resourceful ME: Exploring the Value of Maine’s Reuse Economies” will run from Tuesday\, Sept. 20\, 2016 through Jan. 20\, 2017 in the Hudson Museum’s Minsky Culture Lab at the Collins Center for the Arts at UMaine. A reception to be held 4–6 p.m. Oct. 27 is free and open to the public. \n“Maine has an exceptional culture of reuse\,” says Isenhour. “There is another old adage I’ve heard more times since moving here than I’d previously heard in my whole life: ‘Use it up\, wear it out\, make it do or do without.’” \nAs an economic and environmental anthropologist concerned with the development of more sustainable societies\, these old adages raise interesting questions for Isenhour. She’s interested in the cultural construction of thrift cultures as well as economic structures that can support both resource conservation and waste reduction. \nWith photographs and accompanying facts and stories\, Isenhour communicates the value of and potential for reuse throughout the exhibit. \nFor instance\, in Limerick\, Maine\, community members leave items they no longer need at a transfer station shop for other residents to take free of charge. In addition to neighbors helping neighbors\, Isenhour says since opening the shop and improving recycling programs\, the town has reduced its annual landfill waste from 291 to 39 tons. \nThe exhibit also features sharing economies that put not-being-used items in storage units\, garages\, attics and basements to use. In a Portland community tool library\, donated and jointly purchased tools are available for all residents to utilize. \nIn Maine\, used goods change hands in a myriad of ways. People flock to flea markets\, yard sales and antique shops and they scour classified ads in the popular Uncle Henry’s print and online publication. \nPeople participate for a variety of reasons\, Isenhour says. They may enjoy treasure hunts\, want to protect the environment\, and/or need lower-cost alternatives. \n“As we learn more about resource depletion\, climate change and the potential for economic insecurity\, we’re seeing a strong resurgence of interest in repair and reuse\,” she says. \nWith such a strong existing culture of reuse\, Isenhour thinks Maine may have a few lessons to share. \nHudson Museum is free and open to the public from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. It also is open 90 minutes prior to performances at the CCA and during intermissions.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mitchellcenter/event/hudson-museum-exhibit-resourceful-me-exploring-the-value-of-maines-reuse-economies/
LOCATION:Hudson Museum\, Collins Center for the Arts\, University of Maine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
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SUMMARY:SEMINAR - Creating a Decision Support Toolbox for Safe Beaches & Shellfish Harvests
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: New England Sustainability Consortium (NEST) Decision Support Systems Team\nKate Beard (Computing and Information Science)\, Damian Brady (Marine Sciences)\, Brian McGill (Biology and Ecology\, Mitchell Center)\, Bridie McGreavy (Communication & Journalism)\, Sam Roy (Mitchell Center)\, Sean Smith (Earth & Climate Sciences\, Mitchell Center) \nThrough a combination of interviews\, stakeholder meetings and background research\, a collaborative team of scientists has learned that government agencies responsible for the management of shellfish flats and beaches have been required to make use of data sets that are not customized for analyses and prediction of coastal pollution. Some readily available spatial data layers necessary for the evaluations are inaccurate or have not existed. A much-needed framework for the integration of rainfall\, pollution sources\, and watershed attributes governing the production and delivery of runoff and tidal dynamics has also been unavailable. A decision-support toolbox that incorporates site-specific spatial attributes and associations and historic water quality data has the potential to help decision makers make faster and better-informed monitoring and advisory decisions. Researchers from NEST’s Decision Support Systems team have compiled long-term\, large-scale water quality datasets from multiple stakeholder organizations. They have simultaneously created and organized spatial data sets that can be used as proxies describing the sources\, delivery and residence time of coastal bacteria pollution. This interdisciplinary team is currently analyzing the data in ways that respond to the needs of decision makers at organizations such as the Maine Dept. of Marine Resources\, the Maine Healthy Beaches Program and the Maine Dept. of Environmental Protection. This seminar will discuss some of the results from their efforts to produce a synthesized dataset and decision support tool that is relevant for prediction and management of coastal water quality and public health problems.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mitchellcenter/event/seminar-creating-a-decision-support-toolbox-for-safe-beaches-shellfish-harvests/
LOCATION:107 Norman Smith Hall\, Mitchell Center - UMaine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
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SUMMARY:2016 Mitchell Lecture on Sustainability: Between Optimism and Pessimism: Our Unending Pursuit to Feed Civilization
DESCRIPTION:KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Ruth DeFries\, Denning Family Professor of Sustainable Development\, Columbia University \nThis lecture will be held in the Wells Conference Center on the UMaine Orono campus at 1 p.m. \nDeFries is a professor of ecology and sustainable development at Columbia University. She is a recipient of the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship and many other academic awards\, as well as author of over a 100 scientific papers related to how people are manipulating the planet and its consequences for humanity. \nHer talk will be based on her recent book “The Big Ratchet” — a sweeping history of humanity’s journey from an ordinary mammal to a world-dominating species. The long lens on humanity’s journey portrays how people devised ways to feed civilization in a never-ending cycling of solutions and new problems. Rather than impending catastrophe\, the “big picture” illustrates our species adaptability and ingenuity. \nRead more…
URL:https://umaine.edu/mitchellcenter/event/2016-mitchell-lecture-on-sustainability/
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