The fundamental question for Maine business leaders is this: How can we create model workplaces and business cultures that ensure productive, competitive, equitable and respectful environments in which employees thrive in, customers admire and shareholders benefit?
Summit Natural Gas of Maine's $340 million project to expand natural gas service to the Kennebec River valle and the Cumberland-Yarmouth-Falmouth area haslaid more than 250 miles of pipe since it began in 2013.
Augusta native and Olympian Julia Clukey, a senior recruiter for WEX Inc. and the founder of summer camps for girls, recently started a career/confidence coaching business for female professionals.
Maine is developing electric vehicle infrastructure as part of a plan to reduce dependence on fossil fuels, as well as to keep pace with growing consumer demand for all-electric vehicles.
In 2007, the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor became the first carbon neutral campus in the U.S. Since then, it's been full speed ahead for Maine colleges as they tackle energy sustainability and lower carbon emissions.
Demand for HVAC technicians is on the rise. That's led to the state-of-art expansion of the Maine Energy Marketers Association's Technical Education Center, training students in heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration.
