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Kidder and Sawyer: bike or walk your way to savings
Most ways you slice it, commuting via single occupancy vehicle seems less attractive than…
Divest UMaine pushes ahead, strives for more student involvement
Despite a less than enthusiastic reception from students this fall, the USM branch of…
From empty space to “food forest” – new project alters face of USM Portland commons
If you’re walking between the Luther Bonney and Payson Smith Halls at Portland’s USM…
Divestment a cause worthy of student effort and attention
In response to the dire threat of climate change, students at the USM and…
Hand dryer efficiency and cost blows away paper towels
Written by Shaun Carland If you’ve spent time in an academic building’s bathroom over…
Students engage community on sustainability
The Students for Environmental Awareness and Sustainability are eagerly awaiting the presentation of their…
Portland Greendrinks brings awareness to non-profits, beer to the masses
The concept is simple: For two bucks you and a few hundred of your…
Students pushing for community garden in Portland
An unofficial student group organized the Organic Garden Project so members of USM could have a chance to have a plot to grow vegetables, fruit, flowers and herbs.
Senate recommends budget approval
The final version of next year’s budget proposal passed through the Student Senate on Friday night with a heated debate over the future of GTV, the student run television station located on the Gorham campus.
“Will we be leaving them out to dry if we take away their funding?” Senate Treasurer Christopher Hopkins asked.
USM ignited by kindle and the bioneers
Kindle, the northern New England Bioneers conference was hosted, among other places, at USM. Every year the Bioneers have a conference in several locations on the same weekend. The conference aims to teach its participants how culture, society, and business are connected with issues of environment sustainability.
Imported environmentalism
Ever since she started picking up trash along the Maine shoreline, Sandra Wacholz has been seeing that tell-tale shine – washed up on the sand, in the grass or between rocks.
Another hypodermic needle.
Walchoz, a?professor of criminology at USM, is not just an environmentalist, though friends and colleagues say they can’t imagine a more motivated one.
Measuring the ‘green’
The University of Southern Maine’s sustainability program is being brought to the next level: USM has been selected as one of about 90 colleges nationwide to participate in the pilot stage of a new rating system.
This Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System (STARS) is being developed as a means to measure and compare sustainability progress throughout college campuses nationwide.
USM presidential candidates
The final two candidates for USM’s presidency visited our three campuses last week, ending the two-week process of introducing the four candidates to our university and allowing us to meet and question them in return.
During the first week, we met Robert Smith from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and Selma Botman from the City University of New York system.
USMers make award-winning impacts
Getting students involved with their community is what USM alumnus Marie Stolzenburg and Professor Robert Sanford are all about. Their work this past year bringing civic engagement to USM earned them both a Maine Campus Compact Award, presented during a ceremony held at the State House last April.
Clean yourself up, clean up your environment
The last couple of days have been seasonably gray and wet here in Southern Maine. Some may say we’ve had it coming. I think you’ll agree that the weather has been unusually pleasant this fall. It seems we’ve had more sunny days in a row than we’re normally allotted.
Portland Hall shuttles to begin running on biodiesel
In the coming weeks the Portland Hall shuttle will begin running on biodiesel. Last spring the USM student body passed an initiative, by a vote of 564 to 114, to switch the shuttle buses over to B20 biodiesel, a blend of 80 percent petrodiesel and 20 percent vegetable oil.
Using sustainability as a tool for responsible decision making
Stevenson Munro, USM nursing major from Portland, is frustrated about the lack of public transportation in the city. “Portland is … just the right size, everything is mostly within walking distance. But the public transportation is so bad that you need to have a car.”
USM students envision a sustainable Portland
Can we possibly expect to understand how our cumulative daily choices affect the world around us? How can we best work together to design communities that offer a better quality of life? This is just what an ambitious USM student-sponsored conference aims to do this Thursday.
USM: transformed
By 2010, the University of Southern Maine will be a completely different school, according to “Transforming USM”, a six-year action plan for the university.
Senate elections: meet the candidates
A look at each of the candidates, including their goals, their focus issues, and their extra-curricular activities.
McKibben lectures on sustainability
Bill McKibben was not always interested in the elements of a sustainable lifestyle. In college, working as a reporter for his university newspaper, he was not educated about his consumption habits or the meaning of sustainability. Not until he started living in the big apple, working for The New Yorker, did a passion begin to grow in him.
Convocation on sustainability
USM will be highlighting environmental concerns throughout the year in a series of educational events, many of which will be organized and run by students. The events are being held under the auspices of the Provost’s office, which has dubbed this year’s convocation “Environmental Sustainability.
Convocation on sustainability
USM will be highlighting environmental concerns throughout the year in a series of educational events, many of which will be organized and run by students. The events are being held under the auspices of the Provost’s office, which has dubbed this year’s convocation “Environmental Sustainability.