Speaker: Melanie Loyzim, Deputy Commissioner, Maine Department of Environmental Protection Melanie Loyzim is the Deputy Commissioner of the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (Maine DEP). She has been with the […]
Facts vs. Values: How Can We Make Better Decisions? Keynote Speaker: Thomas Dietz, Professor of Sociology and Environmental Science and Policy and Assistant Vice President for Environmental Research Center for […]
The Sustainable Plate - Reflections of a US Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee Member Speaker: Miriam Nelson, Director, Sustainability Institute, University of New Hampshire Questions to be addressed in the talk: […]
Speaker: Anthony Charles, School of the Environment and School of Business, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia Co-sponsored by the School of Marine Sciences Place-based communities the world over face […]
Speaker: Karin Limburg, Professor, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry Worldwide, fish populations are in decline. Once formerly abundant species now are increasingly threatened, endangered, […]
The Politics of a Sustainable Coast: Money, Science, Democracy, and Climate in Southeastern Louisiana Speaker: Michael A. Haedicke, Associate Professor, Drake Co-sponsors: Dept. of Sociology, Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center […]
Speaker: Tony Grassi, sustainability entrepreneur Tony will talk about sustainability in practice as he and his wife Sally rehabilitated an old mill in Freedom Maine, restored hydropower at the old […]
A Conversation about Decision Support Tools What are they? When are they useful? What problems might they solve? An interdisciplinary panel discussion Participants: Linda Silka, Senior Faculty Fellow, Mitchell Center […]
Eight students will present five-minute talks on their sustainability research in Maine. Selected Presentations: Graduate Responses of potato varieties to Dickeya dianthicola and Pectobacterium parmentieri that cause blackleg and soft […]
Speakers: Afton Hupper, Taylor Lange, Tim Waring, Local Food Lab, UMaine Sustainable solutions are not always win-win. The hardest sustainability challenges are social dilemmas in which the best outcome for […]
