The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine will host a talk titled “The Maine Sustainability Hub: Building a Sustainability Community at UMaine” at 3 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 24. Starting in spring 2021, a group of UMaine faculty and students began imagining a sustainability hub that would organize […]
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The Boston Globe interviewed Habib Dagher, founding executive director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center at the University of Maine, about offshore floating wind turbines planned for a location a few miles off the coast of Monhegan Island in 2025. “This is a major opportunity. There’s enough offshore wind to power the country four […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported that the Orono Energy Efficiency Fair will take place 9 a.m.–3:30 p.m. on Oct. 22 at Wells Conference Center. The fair, hosted by the Town of Orono and UMaine’s Sustainability Office, will feature several lectures about different tools and resources to help attendees reduce fossil fuel use consumption, prevent energy […]
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Registration is open for an in-person professional development program, Going Green: Sustainability in Business. This online workshop, part of the University of Maine Hutchinson Center’s professional development program, will be held from 8:30 a.m–4:30 p.m. Oct. 21 at the Hutchinson Center in Belfast. This workshop will help participants understand current business sustainability strategies and how […]
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Residents of the Bangor area and beyond can learn how to make their energy use more economical and renewable at the Orono Energy Efficiency Fair 9 a.m.–3:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 22 at Wells Conference Center. The fair, hosted by the Town of Orono and UMaine’s Sustainability Office, will feature several lectures about different tools […]
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The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine will host a talk about initiatives by the federal government to address climate change and environmental justice featuring David Cash, the New England regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), at 3 p.m. on Oct. 17. During his talk, titled […]
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In recent years, communities across Maine and the U.S. have discovered the presence of toxic chemicals called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, in their land and water. Also known as forever chemicals because they are difficult to destroy, PFAS have been incorporated in various products, including food containers, clothing, rugs, teflon pans, fabrics and […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot and the Bangor Daily News shared that Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine will host a talk about initiatives by the federal government to address climate change and environmental justice featuring David Cash, the New England regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), […]
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Paul Mayewski, director and professor at the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, and Anders Beal, associate in the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and former UMaine graduate student of Global Policy, co-authored an opinion piece for The Hill about how critical this decade is in terms of addressing the climate crisis […]
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The Bangor Daily News noted that the Orono Energy Efficiency Fair will take place on Oct. 22 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Wells Conference Center at the University of Maine. The fair is funded by the State of Maine’s Community Resilience Partnership Climate Action Grant and the University of Maine’s Office of […]
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