Former Maine Senator Mitchell, Yale Dean Speth at UMaine Thursday Presentation
Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571
ORONO — George Mitchell, the former U.S. Senate Majority Leader for whom UMaine’s Sen. George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research is named, will be a keynote speaker at a Thursday, Sept. 27 UMaine event.
Mitchell, who represented Maine in the Senate for 15 years beginning in 1980, will speak at the inaugural UMaine Sen. George J. Mitchell Lecture on the Environment. James Gustave “Gus” Speth, dean of Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, will be the other keynote speaker. The lecture event begins at 1:30 p.m. in Hauck Auditorium.
UMaine’s Mitchell Center is an interdisciplinary unit, focusing on environmental research, graduate education and outreach. It was formed and named for Sen. Mitchell in 2000.
Speth, who is also the Sara Shallenberger Brown Professor in the Practice of Environmental Policy, wrote the critically acclaimed book “Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment.” In that book, Speth suggests that efforts to protect our environment are not succeeding, and he offers a bold news vision for dealing with environmental and related issues.