Acadia Partners Blog

This summer I am spending part of each day working out of the Research Building at SERC. The Park and Acadia Partners have just opened this building up this year for the summer season, and what is going on here is exciting. The building is the daily workspace of a group of scientists and students doing interesting work that is good for the Park, good for the researchers, and ultimately good for the community. This post takes a look at what is going on and at why it is important.

Responding to a blog posting by Jon Udell, Bill Zoellick takes on the question of why we don’t see more businesses and non-profit organizations using blogs as a way to reach customers and supporters. Bill makes some suggestions about what might be the root of the problem, and guarantees you at least one reader.

I live in a one species town (it’s a one horse town too, but that’s a different story). The species is lobster and it is estimated to account for about half of all income earned in Winter Harbor and the surrounding community … but it wasn’t always this way

This is the last of a series of three short writings that talk about Acadia Partners’ mission. The first piece focused on the place where Acadia Partners is located, since Acadia Partners’ mission is rooted in the importance of place. The second installment looked at the question of who we have to thank for preserving this place and keeping it available to the public. This final segment looks at Acadia Partners’ role in continuing the work, started over 100 years ago, to protect this place for future generations.

This is the second of a series of three short writings that talk about Acadia Partners’ mission. The first piece focused on the place where Acadia Partners is located, since Acadia Partners’ mission is rooted in the importance of place. This second installment looks at the question of who we have to thank for preserving this place and keeping it available to the public.

This is the first of a series of three short writings that talk about Acadia Partners’ mission. This first piece focuses on the place where Acadia Partners is located, since Acadia Partners’ mission is rooted in the importance of place.

In late October SERC was privileged to host a meeting of researchers associated with the Downeast Initiative. You can read the article describing that meeting by clicking here. I attended the meeting and came away impressed. What the Downeast Initiative is attempting to do is critically important.

This importance extends beyond fishing. Fisheries are among this region’s most significant natural resources, viewed from an economic standpoint. I cannot conceive of a way in which we could have an effective Downeast natural resource conservation ethic if we do not have a fisheries conservation ethic.

Every once in a while my ties to the world of high tech swing me around so that I can see something new about our local economy. An article in last week’s Financial Times, coupled with some conversations with friends who follow the changing landscape of technology business, got me to thinking about how we do business and solve problems here on the downeast coast.

Something known as “Web 2.0″ is emerging in the world of Internet business. It is a new way of building products, financing a business, and working together. It is a big enough deal to make Microsoft worry about its future. Meanwhile, a lot of us here back home are still trying to get something better than dial-up when we want to get our email. But, all the same, there are some things about Web 2.0 that are worthwhile for us to pay attention to.