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Our research team presents our developing work on cooperation in the local food economy in Maine. We explain the role of social engagement in local food, and detail our measurements of cooperation in cooperative organizations such as food co-ops and … Continue reading →

Master’s student Afton Hupper summarized her previous work on the Bangor Food Hub project.

For a couple of years my colleague Jeremy Brooks (OSU) and I have led a group of researchers in the effort to apply cultural evolutionary thinking to sustainability research. This effort is finally starting to bear fruit with a Special … Continue reading →

How Cooperation can be Harnessed to Achieve Sustainability, Monteverde Institute, Dr. Timothy M. Waring, Feb 8, 2017 Associate Professor of Social-Ecological Systems Modeling, School of Economics, Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, University of Maine How Cooperation can be Harnessed to Acheive Sustainability, a presentation

Thursday Ethan Trembaly successfully defended his master’s thesis, entitled “Splitting Together: The Evolution of Cooperation in Food Buying Clubs.” Ethan wrangled a large and complex dataset, built simulation model of emergent cooperation dynamics in food buying clubs, and calibrated it … Continue reading →