United Press International wrote about University of Maine economist Timothy Waring’s work to develop a theory of sustainability, including which combination of sociopolitical factors and institutions are most likely to encourage sustainable resource management. Cooperation within social groups may be key, Waring says. “We found that sustainable use of resources emerged more when societies were […]
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Cooperation may be the key to successful sustainability, says Timothy Waring, an associate professor in the School of Economics and the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions. Waring is working toward a ‘theory of sustainability’ and is seeking to discover what makes sustainability possible. He’s asking the question: when, and how, do sustainable […]
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Gabriel Frey and Suzanne Greenlaw strive to honor the tradition, celebrate the present and preserve the future of basketmaking. And the husband and wife will be selling baskets at the 22nd annual Maine Indian Basketmakers Holiday Market on Saturday, Dec. 10, in the Hudson Museum at the Collins Center for the Arts at the University […]
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Eight University of Maine students from a variety of disciplines will have five minutes each to present their sustainability projects on Nov. 21. The “Sustainability Lightning Talks” will begin at 3 p.m. in Norman Smith Hall, Room 107. Students will give details of their specific research related to a larger group project. The projects cover […]
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Over the next week, nearly 60 graduate and undergraduate students in economics, engineering, ecology and environmental sciences, and other majors will volunteer their time to build and wrap window inserts for 21 area community members to help conserve heat in their homes this winter. The project is an outgrowth of a partnership developed last fall […]
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Ruth DeFries, the Denning Family Professor of Sustainable Development and University Professor at Columbia University, will give the 2016 Mitchell Lecture on Sustainability at the University of Maine in Orono Oct. 20. Her free public lecture, “Between Optimism and Pessimism: Our Unending Pursuit to Feed Civilization,” will begin at 1 p.m. at the Wells Conference […]
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The University of Maine was mentioned in a Mainebiz article about colleges and universities in the state that were included in the 2016 edition of Princeton Review’s Guide to 361 Green Colleges.
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WABI (channel 5) covered the Children’s Water Festival that drew more than 600 middle-school students to the University of Maine on Tuesday to learn about the value of clean water and healthy habitats. “So this festival is all about learning about water and water resources,” said Ruth Hallsworth, strategic program manager at the Senator George […]
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Only months after completing his bachelor’s degree at Colby College and fresh from a stint as a field technician for the National Aquatic Monitoring Center based in Utah, Andrew Newcomb had no immediate plans to pursue a post-graduate degree. Until, that is, he got wind of a Ph.D. research assistant position at UMaine as part […]
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Cindy Isenhour doesn’t subscribe to the adage “out with the old, in with the new.” The planet can’t sustain it, says the assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Maine. Consider, she says, that each American annually throws away 1,400 pounds of stuff and that 11,000 gallons of water are used to produce one […]
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