Maine Public airs 2018 Mitchell Lecture on Sustainability

Maine Public aired the 2018 Senator George J. Mitchell Lecture on Sustainability as part of its “Speaking in Maine” program. For the first time, Sen. George J. Mitchell delivered the lecture at the University of Maine on Oct. 4. Drawing on his decades of work in public service and as a skilled negotiator, Mitchell’s talk, “Healing Our Democracy,” explored how we can increase our capacity for solving problems through deliberation and consensus-building in local communities.