Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions

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 […]

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 […]

Speakers: Melissa Ladenheim, Mark Haggerty, François Amar, Danielle Walczak (fellow), Stephanie Welcomer, Linda Silka, John Jemison (Sustainable Food Systems Research Collaborative) and Tim Waring, Ethan Tremblay (School of Economics) This is an exciting time in Maine for sustainable agriculture and local food system work. Various stakeholders and organizations have made strides to grow the local […]