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Friday Futurecast — February 12 - Spring 2021

Spring 2021 Health and safety update for university community members Welcome to this week’s Friday Futurecast These updates are archived on the UMaine Spring ’21 website. The University of Maine at Machias also has a Spring ’21 website. Message from President Joan Ferrini-Mundy: Dear members of the UMaine and UMM communities, It has been another memorable week for our universities and the state, beginning with COVID-19 testing on campus on Monday. At UMaine, we’ve had five particularly successful days of phase six testing, thanks to the exceptional dedication of the many staff members and students working at our two testing sites on campus. They have worked countless hours to ensure the safety and efficiency of the Shield T3 testing, and those students and employees who came for their appointments noted their appreciation. We thank all for their patience with the phase six testing process since Feb. 1. The improvement

Digitization, key element in the growth potential of agroecological cooperatives

 E-Mail The coronavirus crisis has led to some of the general public developing a critical view of the current food consumption model, as shown by a recent survey by the Catalan Consumer Agency, which reveals that 60.5% of all Catalans tend to think that the pandemic will promote more responsible, sustainable and fair consumption. Moreover, the various lockdowns have caused a significant increase in online shopping throughout Spain, with a 92% rise in volume and a 114.5% rise in value, according to aggregated consumption data from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. This change in shopping habits and the awareness of the food model may also have an impact on the development of alternative, local models such as agroecological consumption cooperatives, where producers and consumers interact in order to promote the consumption of food products based on agroecology.

World s Largest Lakes Reveal Climate Change Trends

Date Time World’s Largest Lakes Reveal Climate Change Trends Sixteen years of remote sensing data reveals that in Earth’s largest freshwater lakes, climate change influences carbon fixation trends. NASA-funded research on the 11 largest freshwater lakes in the world coupled field and satellite observations to provide a new understanding of how large bodies of water fix carbon, as well as how a changing climate and lakes interact. Scientists at the Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI) studied the five Laurentian Great Lakes bordering the U.S. and Canada; the three African Great Lakes, Tanganyika, Victoria and Malawi; Lake Baikal in Russia; and Great Bear and Great Slave lakes in Canada.

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