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Nurturing body and mind at Green U-Me

At LongGreenHouse’s Green U-Me event, sustainability experts re-designed UMaine’s campus to nourish the body as well as mind. Several dozen faculty and students from across the campus also participated in this green design charette, whose goal was to reimagine the University of Maine as an edible food forest. Master gardener and orchard expert Mark Fulford, …

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U-Me students debate climate change

Today Wassookeagers and their friends were treated to a presentation by the University of Maine Debate Society, whose members conducted a debate on whether the US should sign the Kyoto Accord. After the formal debate, the U-Me students held a free-form discussion about climate change as well as their experience of the debate process itself.