Community Support – Living Islands

Food Security

Community Health,Community Support

Food Security

The Floating food forest is proposed to develop agricultural space within greenhouses that will float within the lagoon of the atoll. Slightly protected from heavy storms while impervious to the rise and fall of the seas or swells, it shall be designed for; High winds during storms Heat dissipation using passive automation for heat exhaust […]
PICO Directory

Community Support

PICO Directory

A Directory for the PI Community, a structured network between Businesses, NGOs, Local and Regional Government Entities, and our Communities, based on shared ownership among Pacific Islander Communities.
Census 2020 NOT USED

Community Support

Census 2020 NOT USED

While Social Distancing may keep us apart, let’s all come together and be heard on the 2020 Census. You can complete the 2020 Census by mail, online at my2020census.gov, or call ‪1-800-330-2020‬ to complete over the phone. The census determines where billions of dollars of government funding will go, to programs like education and healthcare, […]
Coconut Lumber Housing

Community Support,Public Interest Design

Coconut Lumber Housing

The Johnson’s are a multi-generation Marshallese family who lost their home to a fire some years ago. Their property is located within a stone’s throw to the Ocean and about 5 minutes to the SDA Laura campus. Considering the amount of time to secure the lease on the SDA project as well as additional funding […]
Masterplanning for K-12 SDA School

Community Support,Public Interest Design

Masterplanning for K-12 SDA School

The Seventh Day Adventist School in Majuro has two campuses, the larger in Delap and the smaller in Laura. The school building in Laura is a decent structure however it has a number of challenges. For one it is small for the number of students so classrooms are shared between grades. There is a lack […]
Arno Ine Community Church Roof Replacement

Community Support,Public Interest Design

Arno Ine Community Church Roof Replacement

When visiting RMI in October 2018, we were brought to Ine on Arno Atoll to see a church roof that locals were concerned might be unsafe due to visible sagging in the ridge. We did an observation by taking asbuilt measurements, photographing the structure, sketching connection details, and talking with local stakeholders and the history […]
Census 2020

Community Support,Social Awareness

Census 2020

The census determines where billions of dollars of government funding will go, to programs like education and healthcare, to communities like ours for a decade to come. Our communities and organizations are depending on people to be counted in the Census for funding. In 2017 alone, $1.5 trillion of federal spending was allocated on the basis of […]
Covid-19

Community Health,Community Support

Covid-19

Washington County communities of color are being hit especially hard by the pandemic. The county is working with local community organizations and Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center to offer free COVID-19 testing for Pacific Islanders. The second testing will be this Thursday, July 9th. One more testing will take place on July 25th. More information […]
Low-bandwidth Emergency Weather Information System

Community Support

Low-bandwidth Emergency Weather Information System

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Box of Bikes

Community Support

Box of Bikes

The Living Islands Bicycle Program aims to address the need for affordable, sustainable transportation options in the Marshall Islands by facilitating a bicycle lending and distribution program complemented with legal and educational support from the community and political leadership. The program works to increase the availability of bicycles on the islands of the RMI through […]