The talk will be held virtually via Zoom and in-person at 107 Norman Smith Hall, UMaine. Virtual attendance: Complete the registration form to receive Zoom connection information. In-person attendance: Masks are required for all Mitchell Center talks. Speaker: Tim Glidden, Former Director, Maine Coast Heritage Trust The work of conservation has changed dramatically in Maine […]
Speaker James Eric Francis Sr. is the Penobscot Nation’s director of cultural and historic preservation, Tribal historian and chair of the Penobscot Tribal Rights and Resource Protection Board. As a historian, Francis studies the relationship between Maine Native Americans and the landscape. All talks in the Mitchell Center’s Sustainability Talks series are free and are offered both […]
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 […]
The talk will be held virtually via Zoom and in-person at 107 Norman Smith Hall, UMaine. Virtual attendance: Complete the registration form to receive Zoom connection information. In-person attendance: Masks are required for all Mitchell Center talks. Speaker: Angel Veza, Senior Manager of Capital, Innovation, and Engagement, ReFED Wasted food is a solvable challenge that […]
Sign up for our e-newsletter for conference updates or go to the conference website at 2023 Maine Sustainability and Water Conference. The Maine Sustainability and Water Conference provides an annual forum where professionals, researchers, consultants, citizens, students, regulators and planners gather to exchange information and present new findings on sustainability and water resource issues in […]
The talk will be held virtually via Zoom and in-person at 107 Norman Smith Hall, UMaine. Virtual attendance: Complete the registration form to receive Zoom connection information. In-person attendance: Masks are required for all Mitchell Center talks. Speaker: Sharon Klein, Associate Professor, School of Economics More information on this talk will be posted shortly.
The talk will be held virtually via Zoom and in-person at 107 Norman Smith Hall, UMaine. Virtual attendance: Complete the registration form to receive Zoom connection information. In-person attendance: Masks are required for all Mitchell Center talks. Speaker: Brian McGill, Professor, Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions and School of Biology and Ecology, University of Maine […]
This virtual summit is free and open to the public. Register by April 1, 2023. Zoom connection information will follow. The Maine Food Waste Solutions Summit is Maine’s major food waste event that brings together our state’s key food system participants —farms, food businesses, feeding partners, community leadership, government and nonprofit organizations — to focus […]
Speaker: Adam Briggle, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of North Texas Sustainability raises a host of philosophical questions about ethics and values, knowledge and power, and more. And yet philosophy is not part of the predominant approaches to and discourses around sustainability. This is due to dysfunctions in society and in philosophy. In […]
The talk will be held virtually via Zoom and in-person at 107 Norman Smith Hall, UMaine, Orono. Virtual attendance: Complete the registration form for Zoom connection information Speaker: Samantha Horn, Director, Maine Office of Community Affairs In 50 years, Maine has transitioned from a command and control model of regulation to a vast network of […]
