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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The Bangor Daily News promoted a community workshop demonstrating construction of low-cost window inserts from Sept. 30–Oct. 4 at the University of Maine’s Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions. The workshop, a collaboration with the non-profit Window Dressers and the Penobscot Nation Housing Department, is part of the Addressing Energy Justice Through Community […]
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Tim Waring, a University of Maine associate professor of economics and faculty fellow with UMaine’s Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, was a guest on an episode of Maine Public’s “Maine Calling” discussing the buy local movement in Maine.
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Save money, help keep people warm and protect the environment — these are all benefits of low-cost, easy-to-construct window inserts that can help insulate people’s homes in the cold months of a Maine winter. From Sept. 30 to Oct. 4, a team of students and volunteers led by Sharon Klein and Shantel Neptune will hold […]
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The Bangor Daily News, Centralmaine.com and the Sun Journal promoted a talk by Micah Pawling, a University of Maine associate professor of history and Native American studies, at 3 p.m. Oct. 4. “Why We Need History to Create a Sustainable World: Views from Wabanaki History” will be offered live in Room 107 Norman Smith Hall at UMaine, and also […]
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