The University of Maine was among colleges and universities worldwide receiving top honors for its sustainability efforts from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). UMaine was one of the 16 top performers nationally and internationally in the Grounds category, one of AASHE’s sustainability impact areas, focused on campus land management, […]
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The Sun Journal, Centralmaine.com and The Irregular highlighted an upcoming event hosted by Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions in which Maine students deliver five-minute presentations about their sustainability research. The event, held from 3–4 p.m. on Nov. 15 on campus and online, is part of the Mitchell Center’s Sustainability Talks series.
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The Kennebunk Post and Portsmouth Herald highlighted Food Rescue Maine, a program from the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine, in a story about the organization We Compost It! canceling its curbside pickup service. According to the articles, a resident recommended that the Town Council explore Food Rescue […]
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The Sun Journal, Centralmaine.com and The Irregular advanced an upcoming roundtable discussion about rematriation and Indigenous land concepts in the Land Back movement hosted by the University of Maine Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions. Learn more about the talk, which will be held from 3–4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 8 over Zoom and […]
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Spire: the Maine Journal of Conservation and Sustainability invites submissions for the sixth issue of the online publication planned for spring 2022. Issue 5, released April 2021, is online. Submissions should in some way concern the environment, conservation and/or sustainability — whether it’s current developments, ongoing issues, scientific findings or artistic insights on environmental themes. […]
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The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine will host a roundtable discussion on rematriation and Indigenous land concepts in the Land Back movement from 3–4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 8. Panelists, which will include Darren Ranco, Mali Obomsawin and Sherri Mitchell, will discuss the roles that rematriation, Indigenous women […]
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The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine will host a talk about water insecurity and health in the U.S. and Canada, including the effects in rural and Indigenous communities, from 3–4 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 1. Water insecurity is broadly defined as the lack of adequate and safe […]
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The Bangor Daily News published an op-ed from Michael Haedicke, a University of Maine associate professor of sociology and faculty fellow with the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, about Question 3 on the Nov. 2 election referendum ballot. Haedicke is a member of the Maine chapter of the national Scholars Strategy Network, […]
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The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine will host a talk about the need to work across technology, policy and finance to fight climate change from 3–4 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 18. A rapid shift to low-carbon energy in the power, transportation, industry and building sectors is needed […]
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The Bangor Daily News and Centralmaine.com advanced an upcoming talk hosted by the University of Maine Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions featuring Dan Reicher, senior research scholar at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. Reicher, a former U.S. assistant secretary of energy, will discuss the importance of using what he calls the “clean energy […]
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