Reports and Publications
- Calling Your Bluff Toolkit: A Resource for Understanding and Responding to Shoreline Change (March 2026)
- Scientific Assessment of Climate Change and Its Effects in Maine 2024 Update (June 2024)
- Waypoints: Connect (Feb 2020)
- Waypoints: Livelihoods (July 2018)
- WayPoints: Community Indicators (January 2017)
- Bridging the Rural Efficiency Gap (Oct 2018)
- In Pursuit of Sea Vegetable Market Expansion—Summary Report (Sept 2017)
- Lobster and Ocean Planning (June 2016)
- Island Stores and Services (March 2016)
- Engaging Communities in Offshore Wind (Dec 2015)
- Incorporating Community into Regional Ocean Planning (April 2015)
- Ocean acidification panel report (Jan 2015)
- Ocean acidification vulnerability workshop report (Oct 2014)
- A Climate of Change report (Feb 2014)
- A Threatened Bay (April 2013)
- Sustainable Working Waterfronts Toolkit (March 2013)
- Mapping Working Waters – Offshore Fisheries (July 2012)
- Growing Minds (Aug 2010)
- An Extra Set of Hands (Aug 2009)
- A Fishery for the Future (April 2009)
- The Last 20 Miles (July 2007)
- Maine Guide to Mussel Raft Aquaculture (Sept 1999)
Tools and Resources
- Community Intertidal Data Portal
- Community Profiles
- Resilient Leadership Framework
- Zoom Cheat Sheet
- Tips for Virtual Meeting Facilitation—The Island Institute
- Using the Northeast Ocean Plan
- Saving Like an Islander
Solutions Library
When resources are limited, efficiencies matter. In our What Works Solutions Library, Island Institute has collected examples of innovation from communities in rural Maine and beyond. We have interviewed community leaders and problem solvers who have worked to address local challenges, and we document their process so leaders from elsewhere can read, learn, and act. Our goal is to ensure that action can be initiated when one community learns from another.
Choose from the topics below to learn about the challenges communities are facing and how they are confronting them.
