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Current Nature: Resilient Restoration

By Claire McElwain

Nantucket Current (Feb 2, 2025) — On the banks of Long Pond, the Linda Loring Nature Foundation has been working on a restoration project that provides an example of how sea level rise can affect even seemingly inland areas of our island. Read the full story here.

New Year, New You: Nantucket Conservation Foundation

By Claire McElwain

The Inquirer & Mirror (Jan 30, 2024) If you’re looking for wide open spaces and trails to explore during the quiet winter months, look no further than the properties owned by the Nantucket Conservation Foundation, an organization that stewards more than a third of the island’s total acreage. Read the full story here.

Envision Resilience: Designs for Living in a Changing Climate—A Multi-Month Exhibition of Adaptive Proposals for Portland and South Portland—Opens at the Portland Public Library with a Feb. 7 Opening Reception

By Claire McElwain

PORTLAND, Maine (January 27, 2025) — The Envision Resilience: Designs for Living in a Changing Climate exhibition is now open at the Portland Public Library’s Community Gallery through March 15. A free community open house will celebrate the exhibition on Friday, Feb. 7, in conjunction with Creative Portland’s First Friday Art Walk. Curated by…

Introducing The Hive

By Charlotte Van Voorhis

N Magazine (July 31, 2024) — Innovative, forward-thinking ideas for Nantucket are nothing new to Wendy Schmidt, whose latest venture, “The Hive,” will support local farmers and makers to ply their craft while expanding food resources on the island. Read the full story by Antonia DePace and Bruce A. Percelay here.

Eight University Partners Selected for Fourth Envision Resilience Challenge: The 2024 Design Studio and Community Engagement Initiative will Explore Portland and South Portland, Maine

By Charlotte Van Voorhis

PORTLAND, Maine May 8, 2024 — The Envision Resilience Challenge, a multi-university design studio and community engagement initiative developed by Remain Nantucket, announced today it is headed to Maine with eight universities set to participate. Portland, South Portland and the Casco Bay Islands have been selected as study sites for the 2024 fall design…