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Envision Resilience: Shifting Tides and Evolving Landscapes—A Multimedia Exhibition Exploring Climate Futures Through Art and Design—Opens at SPACE Gallery on April 4

By Claire McElwain

PORTLAND, Maine — Envision Resilience: Shifting Tides and Evolving Landscapes, a new multimedia exhibition bridging visual art and adaptive design, will open at SPACE Gallery on Friday, April 4 with a free community reception at 5 p.m., Envision Resilience announced today. Through student and community partnerships, Envision Resilience works to advance innovative city planning…

Envision Resilience: Designs for Living in a Changing Climate—A Multi-Month Exhibition of Innovative Student Designs—Opens at the South Portland Public Library

By Claire McElwain

SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine — The Envision Resilience: Designs for Living in a Changing Climate exhibition will open at the South Portland Public Library on March 21 with a free community open house at 5 p.m. that will celebrate featured student designs for how this coastal community can thrive in a changing climate. Curated by…

Design students float climate resiliency ideas for Casco Bay

By Claire McElwain

Portland, South Portland (Feb 20, 2025) — Floating communities, breakwaters and parks. New water taxi services, replanted eelgrass beds and sauna-based tourism. Reclaimed tank farms turned into ponds, marshes or parks. Covering shoreline bluffs with native plants that draw pollinators and prevent erosion. Read the full story here.

Remain spins off coastal resilience group

By Claire McElwain

The Inquirer & Mirror (Feb 17, 2025) — Envision Resilience, the annual design studio that for the last five years has brought together students and coastal communities to imagine a resilient future in the face of climate change, will spin off from its parent organization Remain into an independent organization, the two groups announced last…

Remain’s Envision Resilience Challenge Spins Off into New Organization

By Claire McElwain

NANTUCKET, Mass. (February 10, 2025) — Envision Resilience, an annual design studio that for the last five years has brought together students and coastal communities to imagine a resilient future in the face of climate change, will spin off from parent organization Remain into an independent organization, the two groups announced today. “Launching programs…

Current Nature: Resilient Restoration

By Claire McElwain

Nantucket Current (Feb 2, 2025) — On the banks of Long Pond, the Linda Loring Nature Foundation has been working on a restoration project that provides an example of how sea level rise can affect even seemingly inland areas of our island. Read the full story here.

New Year, New You: Nantucket Conservation Foundation

By Claire McElwain

The Inquirer & Mirror (Jan 30, 2024) If you’re looking for wide open spaces and trails to explore during the quiet winter months, look no further than the properties owned by the Nantucket Conservation Foundation, an organization that stewards more than a third of the island’s total acreage. Read the full story here.

Envision Resilience: Designs for Living in a Changing Climate—A Multi-Month Exhibition of Adaptive Proposals for Portland and South Portland—Opens at the Portland Public Library with a Feb. 7 Opening Reception

By Claire McElwain

PORTLAND, Maine (January 27, 2025) — The Envision Resilience: Designs for Living in a Changing Climate exhibition is now open at the Portland Public Library’s Community Gallery through March 15. A free community open house will celebrate the exhibition on Friday, Feb. 7, in conjunction with Creative Portland’s First Friday Art Walk. Curated by…