Recently, a woman in her 40s approached Maine Children’s Home for Little Wanderers’ outgoing executive director, Sharon Abrams, to congratulate her on her imminent retirement. Abrams stepped down after 23 […]
For several years now, Adam Wintle and Dan Bell have been pitching the concept that burying food garbage in landfills is a huge waste of a renewable energy source with numerous environmental benefits. That message wasn't exactly embraced, they say, by the garbage haulers, commercial landfills and trash-to-energy companies that didn't want to divert food waste tonnage from their revenue streams.
A $225,000 grant funding opportunity for Maine health technology entrepreneurs exists through the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Small Business Administration's Small Business Innovative Research program to produce pioneering medical technologies or innovative health care IT solutions. The deadline for submissions is April 5.
Every year, Mainebiz asks some of the state's leading economists to look to the coming year and offer their thoughts, worries and forecasts. We may be out of the recession, but there is plenty of uncertainty out there. Our experts weighed in with written responses. An edited discussion follows.
