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Harnessing The Power Of Storytelling And Storylistening: Fostering Challenging Conversations In Coastal Communities, Holly E. Parker Phd Dec 2023

Harnessing The Power Of Storytelling And Storylistening: Fostering Challenging Conversations In Coastal Communities, Holly E. Parker Phd

Maine Policy Review

As sustainability practitioners we often spend our time in vibrant echo chambers. We’re invigorated by debates about how to support just and sustainable communities and environments. But what happens outside that echo chamber? What happens when we meet a neighbor, a colleague or a decisionmaker who doesn’t share our urgency for action? Do we go it alone as we seek to make change? Or do we need to build new, unexpected partnerships? In a time when technology and political and social divisiveness make it easy to dismiss the other, it is vital that we build pathways to understanding opposing points …


The Disposal Mode Of Maine’S Waste Governance, Travis Blackmer, Brieanne Berry, Michael Haedicke, Cindy Isenhour, Susanne Lee, Jean Macrae, Deborah Saber, Erin Victor Jul 2023

The Disposal Mode Of Maine’S Waste Governance, Travis Blackmer, Brieanne Berry, Michael Haedicke, Cindy Isenhour, Susanne Lee, Jean Macrae, Deborah Saber, Erin Victor

Maine Policy Review

Maine’s materials management system is stuck in a disposal mode of waste governance. Despite significant investments in programs and policies designed to reduce the amount of waste the state buries each year, recent shocks and uncertainties have resulted in increased waste generation and disposal. This paper analyzes specific ways through which materials management in Maine has become locked in to a disposal mode of waste governance. We build a framework to help understand various forms of lock-in and how they might be unlocked. This framework is applied to the extended producer responsibility packaging law that is presently under the rule-making …


Maine Women's Giving Tree Quarterly Review Vol. 2, No. 1 (June 2017), Maine Women's Lobby Staff Jun 2017

Maine Women's Giving Tree Quarterly Review Vol. 2, No. 1 (June 2017), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

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Maine Women's Giving Tree Quarterly Review Vol. 1 No. 1 (2016), Maine Women's Lobby Staff Dec 2016

Maine Women's Giving Tree Quarterly Review Vol. 1 No. 1 (2016), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

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Introduction, Linda Silka, Bridie Mcgreavy, Brittany Cline, Laura Lindenfeld Jan 2012

Introduction, Linda Silka, Bridie Mcgreavy, Brittany Cline, Laura Lindenfeld

Maine Policy Review

Introduces special issue of Maine Policy Review focused on Maine's "Sustainability Solutions Initiative," an NSF/EPSCoR-funded project that brings together faculty from higher education institutions around the state to work with stakeholders on sustainability issues through the lens of sustainability science.


Advancing Science And Improving Quality Of Place: Linking Knowledge With Action In Maine’S Sustainability Solutions Initiative, Damon Hall, Linda Silka, Laura Lindenfeld Jan 2012

Advancing Science And Improving Quality Of Place: Linking Knowledge With Action In Maine’S Sustainability Solutions Initiative, Damon Hall, Linda Silka, Laura Lindenfeld

Maine Policy Review

The authors give an overview of how research carried out through Maine’s Sustainabilty Solutions Initiative (SSI) improves traditional models of science by providing a fuller picture of the interaction between social and ecological systems. They provide examples of university-community research partnerships, where there is a continuous communication and feedback process that identifies problems and develops projects with a solutions-oriented focus. SSI projects, they argue, “focus on issues that may make lasting improvements to Maine’s quality of place.”


Our Environment: A Glimpse At What Mainers Value, Mark W. Anderson, Caroline Noblet, Mario Teisl Jan 2012

Our Environment: A Glimpse At What Mainers Value, Mark W. Anderson, Caroline Noblet, Mario Teisl

Maine Policy Review

Understanding environmental worldviews is impor­tant because values can play a strong part in defining and resolving policy debates. Mark Anderson, Caroline Noblet and Mario Teisl present analysis of a survey that included questions about Mainers’ environmental values. They note that people can value the environment in multiple ways at the same time, and that these values are not necessarily mutually exclusive. In the end, they say, “values matter” in environmental policy.


Maine Women's Insider (April 2006), Maine Women's Lobby Staff Apr 2006

Maine Women's Insider (April 2006), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

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Maine Women's Advocate No. 39 (Summer 2005), Maine Women's Lobby Staff Jul 2005

Maine Women's Advocate No. 39 (Summer 2005), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

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Maine Women's Advocate_No. 38 (Winter-Spring 2005), Maine Women's Lobby Staff Mar 2005

Maine Women's Advocate_No. 38 (Winter-Spring 2005), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

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Maine Women's Advocate No. 36 (Winter 2004), Maine Women's Lobby Staff Jan 2004

Maine Women's Advocate No. 36 (Winter 2004), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

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Maine Women's Advocate No. 34 (Summer 2002), Maine Women's Lobby, Maine Women's Policy Center Staff Jul 2002

Maine Women's Advocate No. 34 (Summer 2002), Maine Women's Lobby, Maine Women's Policy Center Staff

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Maine Women's Advocate No. 33 (Winter 2002), Maine Women's Lobby, Maine Women's Policy Center Staff Jan 2002

Maine Women's Advocate No. 33 (Winter 2002), Maine Women's Lobby, Maine Women's Policy Center Staff

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Maine Women's Advocate No. 32 (Summer 2001), Maine Women's Lobby, Maine Women's Policy Center Staff Jul 2001

Maine Women's Advocate No. 32 (Summer 2001), Maine Women's Lobby, Maine Women's Policy Center Staff

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