Speaking in Maine features the keynote address from the Mainebiz “Conference on Maine Energy & How to Build an Economy Around the Energy Industry.” The speaker is Dr. Habib Dagher, director of the Advanced Engineered Wood Composites Center at the University of Maine at Orono.

Speaking in Maine features a distinguished panel discussion from the 2009 Mainebiz symposium “Powering Up Maine.” Business owners and industry experts talked about the opportunities and challenges associated with the development of new energy products as a foundation for a stronger Maine economy.

Speaking in Maine welcomes Paul Steiger, editor-in-chief, president and chief executive of ProPublica to the podium. Steiger’s organization is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

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Speaking in Maine offers a talk by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. He was at the University of Maine in Orono to deliver the William S. Cohen Lecture. Senator and former Secretary of Defense Cohen introduced Holder and took part in the Q and A.

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Former Maine Governor Angus King (I) kicks-off the inaugural Joshua Chamberlain Lecture Series by speaking on a wide range of issues. The bulk of this talk, however, dealt with the leadership lessons which can be gleaned from one of Maine’s most well known residents, Civil War hero Joshua Chamberlain.

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Speaking in Maine features a “Your Vote 2009” panel discussion about the two tax related November 3 ballot questions. The two issues are known as TABOR II and the Excise Tax question.

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Speaking in Maine features an address by U.S. Special Middle East Envoy George Mitchell. He recaps the successful efforts to forge peace in Northern Ireland, as well as a broad overview of what needs to be achieved between Israelis and Palestinians.

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Speaking in Maine offers a talk by Wendell Potter. He was a health insurance industry insider for 20 years before leaving his post to advocate for health care reform.

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Speaking in Maine features an address given at MPBN’s recent annual founders reception by NPR’s Chief Political Correspondent, Mara Laisson, she gives her inside view about politics, the Obama administration, and the major issues of our day including Health Care Reform and Afghanistan.

Speaking in Maine features a panel discussion at Bates College, which seeks to clarify the pros, cons and points of confusion and contention in the policy debate over climate change.

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Speaking in Maine returns to Portland, and the World Affairs Council of Maine where former assistant to General Colin Powell, Col. William Smullen recently spoke about world diplomacy.

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Speaking in Maine features a talk by Donald P. Gregg, former U.S. Ambassador to Korea and Chairman of the Board of The Korea Society in New York City. Mr. Gregg recently spoke at the Midcoast Forum on Foreign Relations in Camden.

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Speaking in Maine features a talk by Mark Tessler, one of the very few American scholars to have attended university and lived for extended periods in both the Arab world and Israel.
 

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Speaking in Maine features U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. She was in Maine late last week talking about health care to members of  the Maine Medical Association, American Cancer Society, the AARP, and others.
 

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Speaking in Maine features a talk by Aaron David Miller. He has helped formulate U.S. policy on the Middle East and the Arab-Israeli peace process over the last two decades as an adviser to six secretaries of state.
 

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Retired U.S. Ambassador Teresita Schaffer addressed the Midcoast Forum on Foreign Relations from . She had a 30-year career in the U.S. Foreign Service. She devoted most of her career to international economic issues and to South Asia.

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Environmental activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier steps up to the Speaking in Maine podium. She is a Canadian Inuit from Northern Quebec who represented the interests of Inuit in Russia, Alaska, Canada, and Greenland at the Stockholm Convention that banned the manufacture and use of persistent organic pollutants that enter the Arctic food chain. In 2005, Watt-Cloutier and others filed a landmark petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, alleging that unchecked greenhouse gas emissions violated Inuit cultural and environmental rights.

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Gary Brewer, currently Professor of Resource Policy and Management at the Yale School of Management spoke in Camden at the Midcoast Forum on Foreign Relations. Among his books is "Decision Making for the Environment". 

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Joel Berg, Executive Director, NYC Coalition Against Hunger and author of All You Can Eat: How Hungry is America? He discusses how the new budget passed by Congress and President Obama’s policy proposals could help Maine’s hungry families move from soup kitchens to self-sufficiency. He also outlines a plan to achieve the President’s pledge to end U.S. child hunger by 2015.

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Danish environmental educator Søren Hermansen spoke about how his island of Samso, Denmark, became energy independent. Hermansen was named one of Time's 2008 Heroes of the Planet, described as "a green oracle, traveling from country to country telling the story of Samso's success."

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MPBN was a partner and co-sponsor of this 2008 Mainebiz Symposium. The panel includes Sara Burns, president and CEO of Central Maine Power Company; Tony Buxton, chair of PretiFlaherty's Energy and Utilities Practice Group; Pat Coon, managing partner of ReVision Energy; Don Hudson, president of The Chewonki Foundation; and David Wilby, director of development and public affairs at First Wind.
 

Powering up Maine: How Businesses are Coping with Rising Energy Costs." MPBN was a partner and co-sponsor for this event. Hear the keynote address by former Governor and current wind farm developer Angus King, who is bullish on Maine's potential to become a leading producer of alternative energy.
 

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