{"id":4917,"date":"2014-07-14T09:15:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T13:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=4917"},"modified":"2017-02-03T16:06:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T21:06:06","slug":"press-release-frogs-floods-the-future-balancing-environment-economy-on-mdi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2014\/07\/14\/press-release-frogs-floods-the-future-balancing-environment-economy-on-mdi\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Release: Frogs, Floods &amp; the Future: Balancing Environment &amp; Economy on MDI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2014\/07\/Mitchell-Lecture-9-12-01201_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4922 size-medium\" style=\"margin: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2014\/07\/Mitchell-Lecture-9-12-01201_2-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Mitchell Lecture 9-12-01201_2\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2014\/07\/Mitchell-Lecture-9-12-01201_2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2014\/07\/Mitchell-Lecture-9-12-01201_2-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2014\/07\/Mitchell-Lecture-9-12-01201_2-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2014\/07\/Mitchell-Lecture-9-12-01201_2-105x70.jpg 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2014\/07\/Mitchell-Lecture-9-12-01201_2-317x210.jpg 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2014\/07\/Mitchell-Lecture-9-12-01201_2-423x281.jpg 423w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2014\/07\/Mitchell-Lecture-9-12-01201_2-634x421.jpg 634w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2014\/07\/Mitchell-Lecture-9-12-01201_2-846x562.jpg 846w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2014\/07\/Mitchell-Lecture-9-12-01201_2-951x631.jpg 951w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2014\/07\/Mitchell-Lecture-9-12-01201_2-1268x842.jpg 1268w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2014\/07\/Mitchell-Lecture-9-12-01201_2.jpg 1368w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,300px\" \/><\/a>Senator George Mitchell and David Hart will appear at the Jesup Memorial Library on Tuesday, July 15 at 7:00 PM to speak about the economic and environmental conundrums facing us on MDI, and how we can work together to address these issues.<\/p>\n<p>For example, we need more housing on MDI, but we want to preserve the natural environment and protect our wetlands.\u00a0 Severe storms are increasing, which results in greater flooding that damages our roads.\u00a0Our economy depends on tourists who flock to our beautiful beaches, but the pollution of coastal waters is a continuing concern. And invasive insects, like the emerald ash borer, threaten our forests.\u00a0 The problems we face require solutions that involve not just science, but also strong alliances between citizens, conservationists, municipalities, and the business community.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/frogs-floods-the-future-balancing-environment-economy-on-mdi\/\">See full press release&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator George Mitchell and David Hart will appear at the Jesup Memorial Library on Tuesday, July 15 at 7:00 PM to speak about the economic and environmental conundrums facing us on MDI, and how we can work together to address these issues. For example, we need more housing on MDI, but we want to preserve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mitchellcenter","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/mitchellcenter\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":606,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":606,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11491,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917\/revisions\/11491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}