An island with an economy based on tourism has little resilience in a natural disaster.

​ “These communities are made up of many different tribes, just like my home country…”

It’s about more than Netflix and Amazon Prime. It’s essential to community and economic vitality.

Our organization is launching a project to support local leaders who want to ready their communities for future storms and floods…

“It’s as if the Titanic has sunk and I am trying to save my 100, while the rest are drowning.” —Dr. Ira Mandel

As a black man on a largely white coast, and as an artist, not a fisherman, he became a central part of his island community…

The past four years have been rife with good news for the Maine lobster industry, as we’ve seen both the volume of the catch and prices paid to fishermen increase. In 2016, Maine lobstermen caught a record 130 million pounds for which they earned a record $533 million.

For eight years, Monhegan Island residents have faced the possibility that Maine Aqua Ventus would site offshore wind turbines two miles south of the island at a site designated by the state legislature.

An older gentleman from Kitkata, Japan leaned over to me and said, “The social system was built long before the pyramids were raised.”