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Salvage and Reuse in Action with Delivery of Office Furniture to Island Nonprofits

By Claire McElwain

NANTUCKET, MA — In an innovative partnership to encourage sustainability, salvage and reuse, The Community Foundation for Nantucket (CFN), Remain and Boston Building Resources (BBR) are joining forces to deliver nearly 40 pieces of high-quality office furniture to nonprofit organizations across the island. This initiative reflects a shared commitment between the organizations to environmental stewardship…

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…

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.

Weekly meal program starting up at The Hive

By Claire McElwain

The Inquirer & Mirror (Jan 20, 2025) —The Hive, the commercial cooking hub on Amelia Drive founded to help island food businesses stretch their revenue streams, is hoping a new initiative will give its members a boost through the slow season. Read the full story here.

Building Buzz at Nantucket’s Shared-Use Kitchen

By Claire McElwain

Foodservice Equipment Report (Jan 16, 2025) — Usually when planning a kitchen, designers make equipment decisions based on the type of cuisine or its end user. But for the building at 5 Amelia Drive, Nantucket, Mass., later named The Hive, a shared-use commercial kitchen facility and food business incubator, none of the usual advance intel…

The Hive at 5 Amelia Drive Opens with Four Local Makers

By Claire Martin

NANTUCKET, Mass. (October 28, 2024) — The six commercial kitchens at The Hive, Nantucket’s first shared-use commercial kitchen facility and food business incubator, officially came online this week with four local makers, Remain and Nantucket Food Group announced today. The public is invited to visit The Hive at 5 Amelia Drive on Friday, Nov. 1…