The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine will host a talk, “Stepping up to the Plate: Innovations in Food Waste Reduction” on Monday, March 20 at 3 p.m. Wasted food is a solvable challenge that could lead to positive environmental and social impacts, and there is a wide […]
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News Center Maine, the Penobscot Bay Pilot and Food Service Director reported that the University of Maine Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions launched its Maine School Cafeteria Food Waste Study pilot this week at four elementary schools in Orono, Buxton, Lisbon and Sebago. The University of Maine School Cafeteria Food Waste Study will address these […]
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The University of Maine Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions launches its Maine School Cafeteria Food Waste Study pilot this week at four elementary schools in Orono, Buxton, Lisbon and Sebago. According to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, approximately $5 million of edible food is wasted every school day in the U.S. In many Maine […]
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The Sun Journal and CentralMaine.com shared that the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine plans to host a free talk, USGS Water Science Centers: Serving Our Communities with Science, at 3 p.m. March 6. Speaker John Bumgarner is the director of the U.S. Geological Survey’s New England Water […]
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In an article about the Marine Mammal Commission’s new study showing there is no risk of entanglement for right whales by offshore wind turbines, WGME-TV (Fox 23 in Portland) noted that University of Maine researchers had previously stated that there was no entanglement risk to the right whale because the line for these floating turbines […]
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In reporting on Maine Gov. Janet Mills’ new Maine Offshore Wind Roadmap, the Union of Concerned Scientists, WMTW-TV (Channel 8 in Portland) and and Offshore Wind noted the University of Maine’s role in designing floating platforms for offshore wind turbines. In launching the plan, Mills spoke from the Maine State House with a model of the […]
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The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine will host a talk, “USGS Water Science Centers: Serving our Communities with Science,” on Monday, March 6 at 3 p.m. Speaker John Bumgarner is the director of the U.S. Geological Survey’s New England Water Science Center (WSC). He joined the New […]
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The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine will host a talk, “Penobscot Sense of Place: An exploration of Indigenous landscapes in the Dawnland” on Monday, Feb. 27 at 3 p.m. Speaker James Eric Francis Sr. is the Penobscot Nation’s director of cultural and historic preservation, Tribal historian and […]
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In an article about the rise of biobased materials, Yale Environment 360 noted that the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC) manufactured 3D-printed house made from a mix of forest byproducts from the state’s numerous sawmills: sawdust, wood flour and a bio-resin whose ingredients have not yet been disclosed. “This material is […]
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In an article about offshore and onshore wind projects moving forward in Maine, Engineering News Record interviewed Habib Dagher, founding executive director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center, about the U.S. Interior Department approving a 9,700-acre floating turbine research site in a deepwater federal tract in the Gulf of Maine last month. Dagher said […]
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