The sale or loss of key community spaces can be a sign of a community at risk of losing itself.

There was plenty of friendly and frank talk about the business of being an old-fashioned kind of organization…

A frenzy of consumption is underway that makes hyenas around a fallen wildebeest look like dinner with Martha Stewart.

It’s not hard to imagine a trophy house or two at Otter Point, or a resort at Sand Beach.

When you live on an island, a task as simple as buying food requires forethought and logistical prowess, sure signs of adulting.

The Gulf of Maine is changing again, but this time it’s much more rapid. The rate of recent warming far exceeds what we’ve seen anywhere in the ocean, and so we have an exclusive front-row seat at the premier screening of the Climate Change Show.

Many rural and geographically isolated communities face a problem referred to as the “brain drain,” in which high school graduates leave for greener pastures.

Please send your letters—comments, compliments or complaints—to tgroening@islandinstitute.org with the subject line “LTE,” and try to keep them to no more than 300 words.

With 1 foot of sea level rise, the 10-year storm of the past will cause the same damage as the storm of the century.