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2010 ANNUAL REPORT an Ecosystem for Ideas 1 2010 ANNUAL REPORT An Ecosystem for Ideas IslandPress.org IslandPress.org 2 Island Press: An ecosystem for ideas Table of Contents Cultivate Knowledge collaboration for Networks Innovative Solutions Create Climate & Energy information on Ecosystems Oceans & Water Policy, Economics, & Law The Built Environment Cross-pollinate Climate Adaptation ideas through Knowledge Exchange Regional Events Conservation Finance Boot Camps BookHugger GreenWorks TrekEast Book Club 1 Table of Contents ISLAND PRESS, a nonprofit President’s Welcome 2 organization founded in Chairman’s Remarks 3 1984, works to provide the Restoration Ecology: A Timeline 4 Climate Adaptation: A Timeline 5 best ideas and information Financial Report 6 in the field to those Ways to Give 7 seeking to understand and From the Publisher, David Miller 8 protect the environment New Ideas about Where We Live & 9 and create solutions to its Smart Power: From the Page to the Grid Board of Directors & Thought Leaders 10 complex problems. Advisory Council Reflections from Davos 11 Island Press Staff 12 Areas of Focus 13 John Davis of TrekEast photographs an oak in North Florida. Photo credit: Margot McKnight. 2 President’s Welcome Chairman’s Remarks SINCE CO-FOUNDING ISLAND Most importantly, however, PRESS over twenty-five years we evolve. Books have always ago, I have spent quite a bit of been the foundation of Island time reading and thinking about Press because they have the ecosystems. What constitutes a capacity to communicate healthy ecosystem? What’s the complex, challenging ideas. We best way to protect one? How do have published over 800 titles ecosystems adapt and evolve? throughout our history, and I believe each has contributed But lately, as I consider how to environmental knowledge. Island Press can help sustain Although books will always the natural world, my attention be central to our mission, we has turned to a different kind recognize that the world in of environment—an intellectual general—and publishing in rather than physical one. “The particular— is rapidly changing. world of ideas” might itself be considered an ecosystem. It’s In response, we are not only a system made up of numerous adapting to new modes of actors; it only functions when communication but creating those actors work together; and them ourselves. I’m particularly it’s always changing. proud of CAKE (the Climate Adaption Knowledge Exchange), This intellectual environment Charles C. Savitt an innovative online resource President needs to be healthy and vibrant developed with EcoAdapt. Island Press if we are going to solve the I’m also excited about Island problems facing our complex Press’s new series of concise, world today, and—as an electronic publications, set to ecosystem for ideas—Island launch next year. Press plays an important role. We work with authors With these and other initiatives, to cultivate knowledge. We Island Press is working to help create information resources create a healthy intellectual online. And we collaborate with “ecosystem.” It’s the most other organizations to “cross- important thing we can do to pollinate” ideas. sustain our biological one. Charles C. Savitt 3 Chairman’s Remarks WE HOPE THAT AS YOU READ the world of publishing. While THIS REPORT you will further these changes create short-term appreciate the unique role challenges for Island Press, Island Press plays in helping we embrace the challenge to identify solutions for the because we see many new complex environmental opportunities to provide, and challenges we face. These regularly update, the expert solutions are peer reviewed, information our authors fact based, and nonpartisan. develop. By the end of this year, nearly all of our over 800-plus My wife Sherry and I support books will be digitized and Island Press because we believe available electronically. We also in the power of ideas. And we will increase our use of social welcome the thoughtful manner media to create collaborative in which this organization learning environments. These addresses issues—an approach digital strategies will help us that’s increasingly rare in our to better serve and engage our contentious, ideological policy audience of public- and private- and political debates. As you sector practitioners, scientists, will see, Island Press seeks out teachers, and students. experts and works with them to bring knowledge and insights to We know that people have many Decker Anstrom people who want to ensure the organizations they can support. Chair long-term health of our planet. But if you believe in the power Island Press Board of Directors We distribute our authors’ of ideas, facts, and science to research, best practices, and make a difference in securing a solutions by publishing about healthy future, you cannot make forty books a year, and through a better investment than in electronic publishing and Island Press, its network of more community-based forums. than 3,500 published experts, and its high-quality team led by For the past twenty years I Charles Savitt. have worked in the media and communications arena, Decker Anstrom and witnessed firsthand the digital revolution’s impact on television, newspapers, and other media. That revolution is now beginning to change 4 Restoration Ecology: A Timeline Climate Adaptation: A Timeline ISLAND PRESS IDENTIFIED THE Restoration is now part of is critical FIELD OF RESTORATION ECOLOGY virtually every program in for creating AS AN IMPORTANT EMERGING every NGO and state, federal, ecosystems that DISCIPLINE and a priority for and international agency that will be resilient to our publishing program in the works on environmental issues. the pressures of a late 1980s. Starting in 1990, Restoration courses and majors changing climate. as the field was just taking are also being developed in Restoration shape, we published a handful universities around the world ecology has much of books from early leaders and in response to a demand for to offer other practitioners. In May of 2001, skilled professionals. disciplines that with interest in restoration Although restoration are struggling to find anchors increasing, we signed an traditionally has been viewed as in this age of uncertainty. As we agreement with the Society a means to reset the ecological identify information needs for for Ecological Restoration clock and return an ecosystem the next decade—and begin to (SER) to collaborate on a book back to some prior state, the develop books and programs series. By the end of 2011, pressures of climate change to meet those needs—we “The Science and Practice of (plus the maturation of the recognize that restoration is Ecological Restoration” series field) have reset restoration’s a global need and a global will have published twenty-six primary focus from the past endeavor. books that provide practical to the future. The science and knowledge and scientific insight Our books will continue to skills of restoration match up for a diverse international aid in this vital process at the well with climate adaptation readership. In ten years of broadest possible scale, helping strategies. Restoration publication, the series not only restoration to become the ecology encompasses many has established a reputation powerful healing tool that the forms of “repair”—activities for scientific, academic, and world so clearly needs. that re-establish ecosystem field-tested quality, but has also function and services as well played a significant role in the as particular species. This development of the field. experience-based knowledge Program Highlight Island Press initiated the TrekEast Book Club to support John Davis’s 10-month, 4,500-mile TREKEAST BOOK CLUB journey up the eastern coast. In conjunction with the Wildlands Network, the TrekEast Book Club aims to draw attention to the need for an Eastern Wildway that provides safe passageways for wildlife. 5 Climate Adaptation: A Timeline ISLAND PRESS PUBLISHED The program consisted of three this work easier. ONE OF THE FIRST BOOKS TO connected activities: a survey CAKE provides DESCRIBE “CLIMATE CHANGE of practitioners about their further support ADAPTATION” TO GENERAL resource needs; production of through a READERS, Anthony Barnosky’s an adaptation manual; and the virtual library, Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of launch of an online resource cases studies, Global Warming, in early 2009. called the Climate Adaptation a community By this time, professionals at Knowledge Exchange (CAKE) forum, online nonprofits and government with a partner nonprofit, tools, and agencies had become acutely EcoAdapt. directory aware that rising carbon levels of fellow CAKE was launched on July 4, 2010 would create new vulnerabilities practitioners. at the International Congress on for natural resources. But while Conservation Biology, and the In a few short years, “climate managers had begun planning companion manual—Climate adaptation” has become part for adaptation, few on-the- Savvy: Adapting Conservation of the public vocabulary. But ground projects were underway. and Resource Management professionals, and the citizenry In December 2008, The Kresge to a Changing World by Lara at large, still have much to Foundation had given us a J. Hansen and Jennifer R. learn about how to cope with generous seed grant to launch a Hoffman—followed in October. a changing climate. That’s why program dedicated to increasing Together, these resources CAKE and Island Press continue knowledge about climate provide groundbreaking, to evolve. CAKE continues change adaptation.
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