This tour highlights the Nantucket Garden Club’s Coastal Resilient 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 pesticides.…
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…
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…
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…
This effort merges public and private data, including trip-level data from ferries and airlines, with ground-breaking data science. It offers a detailed portrait of daily changes in the island’s population. The drop-downs tools in the online version of the report help you focus on specific areas of interest and allow you to view a…
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…
In the fall of 2023, Nantucket Footprints partnered with the Nantucket Conservation Foundation to launch the first in a series of virtual garden tours, an immersive experience showcasing sustainable and resilient gardens that not only captivate with their natural beauty but also underscore their vital role in our island environment. By incorporating supportive plant species into…
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 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…