I teamed up with Green Fire Productions, a nonprofit video production company, to film classroom footage of John Van Dis of Edna Drinkwater School and Marci Train of Long Island School for the newest Ocean Frontiers documentary.
Category: Blog
Outer island stories brought to life by shadow puppets
Posted by Neil Arnold & filed under Blog.
Last winter and spring, Figures of Speech Theatre worked with outer islands schools to produce a film. And it’s probably not like any film you’ve seen before.
Alaskan Salmon in Maine: (delicious) food for thought
Posted by Neil Arnold & filed under Blog.
People driving down Route 1 on Sunday smelled wild salmon from the northern reaches of the Pacific hitting the grill a stone’s throw from the Atlantic. Those smart enough to follow their noses were greeted by sustainable salmon from Alaska and seaweed salad from Maine.
Hands-on learning in schools large and small
Posted by Neil Arnold & filed under Blog.
What kind of school gets kids to build their own racecar? How about asking students to carry their trash around for a week? Or compare themselves to a favorite vegetable? Those are just a few of the student assignments I heard about at this year’s Island Teachers Conference, and they all have a common result: Students are diving deeper into their surroundings, and learning more along the way.
Maine’s recent shellfish closure has the same culprit as California’s 2015 crab crisis
Posted by Neil Arnold & filed under Blog.
In September of this year, eastern Maine was closed to clam and mussel harvesting. The cause? Not our familiar red tide, but a different biotoxin, domoic acid. It accumulates in filter-feeding shellfish during a bloom of specific algae species. The bloom in eastern Maine is now dissipating, but the clam and mussel fishery hasn’t fully reopened.
Baby shellfish are growing fast as our first aquaculturists start their farms
Posted by Neil Arnold & filed under Blog.
Many of our aquaculture business development participants have already started their farms and we project that the economic impact of this work will have an $8.5 million effect on Maine’s coast over the next five years.
Commercial Currents: Boosting business with better internet
Posted by Neil Arnold & filed under Blog.
Island residents strive to provide better internet for businesses and communities
Are you frustrated when trying to run a customer’s credit card? Can’t provide WiFi? Are you prevented from working where you want to live because of poor internet service? Struggling to market your products to customers beyond your neighborhood?
Entrepreneurs as Community Leaders
Posted by Neil Arnold & filed under Blog.
It is becoming clear to me that entrepreneurs have a special ability to tackle important community issues with an eye toward innovative solutions.
Commercial Currents: Finding efficiency with digital tools
Posted by Neil Arnold & filed under Blog.
Island and coastal business owners have often told us that they would like to make their businesses more efficient through the use of digital tools like QuickBooks and social media. As a result, we teamed up with Axiom Education and Training Center (AETC) to deliver digital workshops on islands, to support businesses on their own turf.
How many islanders does it take to change a tire?
Posted by Neil Arnold & filed under Blog.
I’ve been told that Long Islanders are notoriously frugal, and some of that must have rubbed off on me because I decided that instead of paying for freight service, I would just carry the sizeable truck tire on board with me.
