http://www.acadiapartner.org/wordpress Discoveries and observations as we work with natural resource issues Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:19:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en “Marketplace” — which airs on Maine Public Radio twice each weekday morning — is a delight. Fast paced, a little irreverent, and full of good information about what’s happening in business and in the broader economy. Last Wednesday (August 27) Marketplace aired an interview with Hugh Grant, chairman and CEO ... http://www.acadiapartner.org/wordpress/?p=39 Play that is good for kids, and presented as such–by best selling authors, by teams of experts, by parents–doesn’t strike me as all that playful. It sounds like eating your peas.” So writes Walter Kirn in an article titled “Boys Gone Mild” in this week’s New York Times Magazine. Kirn ... http://www.acadiapartner.org/wordpress/?p=37 Over the past couple months I have been working with teachers and other people involved in education across Maine on the question of how we can do an even better job of teaching science. Everybody that I talk to agrees that we should be giving kids the tools and ... http://www.acadiapartner.org/wordpress/?p=36 We are in the final days of making preparations for the arrival of Maine School of Science and Mathematics students who will participate in the Winter Watershed Geochemistry field school run by Sarah Nelson, a Canon National Parks Science Scholar working at the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental ... http://www.acadiapartner.org/wordpress/?p=35 It’s 7:30 a.m. Saturday morning and I’m having breakfast with my 11 year old son, Gabe, (well I’m having coffee…Gabe’s having the Big Special [two eggs, bacon AND sausage, pancakes, home fries and hot chocolate]). The breakfast is a bribe to get up early on a Saturday and participate ... http://www.acadiapartner.org/wordpress/?p=34 Life has been around on Earth for about 3 billion years. At the outset, it was a pretty simple affair — single celled organisms without a nucleus. Starting about 550 million years ago, life began to appear in new, more complicated forms. For most of the time since then, life ... http://www.acadiapartner.org/wordpress/?p=33 Acadia Partners’ business is conservation. Sure, we have a special niche to fill in the world of conservation, supporting the scientific research that the Park needs and promoting related science education,  But, in the grand scheme of things, we’re conservationists.  Here’s the rub:  People don’t conserve when they are living on ... http://www.acadiapartner.org/wordpress/?p=32 Mr. Dixon was born in Winter Harbor, and so was a part of this community all his life–and this community was a part of him. As we listened to the recollections at today’s memorial service at St. Christopher’s By the Sea, it was clear that he touched the lives of ... http://www.acadiapartner.org/wordpress/?p=31 Today was a beautiful morning to walk in the woods. It rained last night, so the steams were running, the bark on trees was still damp and dark, and the greens of the mosses were rich in the bright morning light. Spider webs in the trees were outlined with water ... http://www.acadiapartner.org/wordpress/?p=30 It’s fun to watch the facilities at the Schoodic Education and Research Center come back to life. As activities ramp up this summer, I have begun spending a good part of most days in an office in a building that used to serve as the medical and dental facility on the ... http://www.acadiapartner.org/wordpress/?p=29