The Sunny Side
N Magazine (September 1, 2023) — A quick chat with the Community Foundation for Nantucket’s new executive director, Sunny Daily. Read the full interview by Robert Cocuzzo here.
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Architectural Salvage Workshop Commercial
In the fall of 2023, Remain Nantucket continued its partnership with the Nantucket Preservation Trust on exploring deconstruction, salvage and reuse on the island with a public workshop featuring experts from San Antonio, Texas and Savannah, Georgia, alongside local stakeholders, to delve into deconstruction strategies and circular economy models. Watch the commercial for the workshop…
Voices raising in song
The Inquirer and Mirror (May 25, 2023) — They’ve put in the work, countless hours of practice over the last four months. And today ACKapella, Nantucket Community Music Center’s new concert choir made up of 10 students ages 13-17, will sing a cappella on the big stage: the historic National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Read…
String program at NIS soars
The Inquirer and Mirror (April 27, 2023) — Nantucket Intermediate School expanded its musical offerings this school year to include a string program, approximately doubling the number of students in its music program over the previous year. Read the full article by Jamie Cushman here.
Nantucket Building Material Salvage Study Phase II Report
A partnership between Remain and the Nantucket Preservation Trust has been exploring the challenges and potential pathways forward for the practice of salvage and reuse of materials in the building sector on Nantucket, which has the potential to not only mitigates greenhouse gas emissions but also assist affordable housing endeavors. Research began with Boston-based…
Washington Street Resilience Framework Plan
Remain has supported the Town of Nantucket’s efforts, in partnership with the Nantucket Land Bank, to prepare for the impacts of sea level rise on Nantucket’s critical transportation corridor along Washington Street. A grant provided to the Town funded a significant design and planning effort developed by SCAPE and the Woods Hole Group that will bring…
Nantucket Building Material Salvage Study Phase 1 Report
A partnership between Remain and the Nantucket Preservation Trust has been exploring the challenges and potential pathways forward for the practice of salvage and reuse of materials in the building sector on Nantucket, which has the potential to not only mitigates greenhouse gas emissions but also assist affordable housing endeavors. Research began with Boston-based…
Measuring Nantucket Attitudes on Climate Change Part II
In 2022, Remain published the second of a two-part survey measuring attitudes on climate change within the Nantucket community as part of the Envision Resilience Nantucket Challenge and conducted by Boston-based consulting firm EBP. The first survey, conducted in January 2021, found that Nantucketers are far more likely to be alarmed about climate change…
Nantucket Preservation Trust and ReMain Nantucket Engage in Building Materials Reuse and Architectural Salvage Study
NANTUCKET, Mass. January 10, 2022 — Every year on Nantucket, more than 8,800 tons of construction and demolition waste are transported off-island, eventually winding up in a landfill facility in southern Ohio. This includes materials from homes that have been either entirely or partially demolished, much of which has the potential to be salvaged and…
Global Changemakers: An exclusive conversation with Wendy and Eric Schmidt
N Magazine (June 30, 2021) — Can one person change the world? The answer is unlikely; however, when you put two of the right people together, the odds increase dramatically. Enter Wendy and Eric Schmidt, whose portfolio of philanthropies are strategically positioned to help change the planet. Read the full story below. GLOBAL…