Envision Resilience: Designs for Living in a Changing Climate
Explore student designs for adaptive futures with accessible community spaces, resilient waterfronts and equitable neighborhoods in Portland and South Portland. Read the full story here.
Resource Entity: Nantucket
Current Nature: Resilient Restoration
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
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
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…
Nantucket Community School Breaking Through The Island’s Language Barrier
Nantucket Current (Jan 06, 2025) — Hours after the last bell at Nantucket High School rings and the last public school students take off for the day, dozens and dozens of adult students are once again filling the classrooms with hopes of improving their English skills. Read the full story here.
Envision Resilience Challenge mural in New Bedford unveiled. Where to find it.
Southcoast Today (August 20, 2024) — At the corner of Sawyer Street and Acushnet Avenue, a large mural high off the ground with a face partly covered by a pair of binoculars with waves on the lens symbolize the threat and the promise of hope for climate resilience. Read the full story here.
Select Board Approves $450,000 In Public Funding For “Lease To Locals” Program
N Current (August 8, 2024) — The Select Board unanimously approved $450,000 in public funds for a project that would pay local property owners to rent their homes to year-round tenants at its Wednesday evening meeting. Read the full story by JohnCarl McGrady here.
Nantucket Bluedot Living Green Guide
Bluedot Living (July 10, 2024) — Your guide to eco-friendly living on Nantucket. Read the full Nantucket Green Guide here.
2023 Envision Resilience New Bedford and Fairhaven Challenge Semester Recap
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (June 15, 2024) — Since 2020, Envision Resilience has grown with the support and enthusiasm of community members in all three Challenge sites of Nantucket, Massachusetts, Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island and New Bedford and Fairhaven, Massachusetts. It’s the people that make the Envision Resilience Challenge what it is. Take a look at…
Students to help Casco Bay communities plan for a warmer, wetter future
Portland Press Herald (May 8, 2024) — Teams of science and design students from prestigious schools like Harvard, Yale and Cornell will be coming to the Casco Bay region this fall to help these coastal communities find ways to adapt to the impacts of climate change. Read the full article here.