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Nantucket Garden Club’s Coastal Resilient Native Plant Garden

By Claire McElwain

This tour highlights the Nantucket Garden Club’s Coastal Resilient Native Plant Garden at the Nantucket Saltmarsh Center, located at 81 Washington Street. Designed with durability and sustainability in mind, this garden uses hardy native plants to stabilize coastal banks, reduce erosion, and withstand the impacts of a changing climate—all without the need for fertilizer or…

Nantucket Conservation Foundation’s Native Biodiversity Meadow Tour

By Claire McElwain

Introduced by the Nantucket Conservation Foundation and located at 118 Cliff Road, the Native Biodiversity Meadow offers a different approach to sustainable landscaping. This expansive meadow prioritizes plant diversity to support wildlife and pollinators, while significantly reducing the need for irrigation and chemical inputs. Through the virtual tour, viewers can explore the meadow’s evolving landscape…

Envision Resilience Launches 2025 Midcoast Maine Challenge with Local Design and Art Partnerships

By Claire McElwain

BATH, Maine (June 25, 2025)—Envision Resilience will bring its place-based, multi-university design studio to Bath and Harpswell, Maine, this fall, pairing university students with community leaders to develop creative ideas for communities facing rising sea levels and challenges related to housing, stormwater management and coastal infrastructure, habitats and ecology. Read the full story here.

Nantucket Land Bank’s Garden of the Sea Tour

By Claire McElwain

Located at 16 Candle House Lane, the Garden of the Sea is a 0.25-acre pollinator garden designed to demonstrate the power of thoughtful, biodiverse planting. Featuring three distinct garden beds, each abundant with native species, this landscape supports pollinators while illustrating how small-scale interventions can contribute to the health of Nantucket’s broader ecosystem. As part…

Remain: Workshop on Sustainable Deconstruction and Material Reuse

By Claire McElwain

Bluedot Living – (August 19, 2025) Remain, in collaboration with Nantucket Community School and Boston Building Resources, is hosting a Deconstruction, Adaptive Reuse, and Circular Economy Workshop — a four-hour course open to the public exploring sustainable strategies for deconstruction and material reuse in construction. Read the full story here.

Remain Workshop To Teach Sustainable Deconstruction and Material Reuse

By Claire McElwain

NANTUCKET, MA — Remain, in collaboration with Nantucket Community School and Boston Building Resources, announced today the upcoming “Deconstruction, Adaptive Reuse and the Circular Economy Workshop,” a four-hour course open to the public and designed to explore sustainable strategies for deconstruction and material reuse in construction. The curriculum is rooted in the principles of a…

Salvage and reuse in action

By Claire McElwain

Inquirer and Mirror – (April 16, 2025) Thanks to an innovative partnership to encourage sustainability, salvage and reuse, the Community Foundation for Nantucket, Remain and Boston Building Resources are joining forces to deliver nearly 40 pieces of high-quality office furniture to nonprofit organizations across the island. Read the full story here.