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…
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…
Remain grants have funded opportunities to better understand the island’s food system. In partnership with Nantucket Resource Partnership, Remain has underwritten several studies with Process First to study food insecurity, the transportation of food on the island and how data can improve the communications supporting the demand for food and growing schedules for island farmers.…
After the publication of The Food Insecurity Report: A Look at the Food System on Nantucket, Starting with Food Insecurity, Remain continued to fund research in partnership with Nantucket Resource Partnership and Process First. The second report digs deeper to better understand how much food is grown on Nantucket and how we can better support our…
In 2022, Nantucket Footprints launched its podcast Choices and Impacts. When it comes to the health of our Nantucket neighbors, our island, and our planet, the choices you make are yours, but the impacts reach us all. In Choices and Impacts with Nantucket Footprints you get to meet the thinkers and doers who are creating…
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, 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…
NANTUCKET, Mass. December 7, 2021 — The Envision Resilience Challenge, which calls on university students around the country to develop adaptive and creative solutions to sea level rise, will expand to its second coastal community—Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island, ReMain Nantucket announced today. ReMain Nantucket introduced the inaugural challenge on Nantucket in spring 2021,…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. July 2, 2021 — As coastal communities around the world grapple with the rapidly accelerating impacts of climate change, the Envision Resilience Challenge model turns to design as a pathway forward. The Envision Resilience Challenge inspires coastal communities to visualize innovative adaptations to sea level rise that allow us to embrace and, maybe…
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…