Climate Solution: Air-Source Heat Pumps Are THE Way!
You have seen them: metal boxes sitting outside houses with a grill on the front, and "mini-splits" inside houses that deliver heat or cool. Now that there are cold-climate units available, this is the...
Climate Solutions: Air-Source Heat Pumps Are THE Way!
You have seen them: metal boxes sitting outside houses with a grill on the front, and "mini-splits" inside houses that deliver heat or cool. Now that there are cold-climate units available, this is the...
‘A spectrum of services for a spectrum of needs’
The eighth annual Food Is Medicine Symposium invites Islanders to educate themselves about the myriad ways nutrition can benefit those who are at risk or living with chronic illness.
But Food Is Medicine Massachusetts (FIMMA)...
Climate Solutions: Make it tight, build it right!
We have 17,500 houses on the Island now. Some that were seasonal are now being used year-round. We have 1,100 nonresidential buildings.
Many of these buildings will still be around in 2050. If we are...
Bringing climate action back home
There are so many ways to support our environment and advocate for sustainable practices, in both our individual and collective lives.
The three-part climate change course offered by the West Tisbury library provides a wealth...
Climate Solutions: We need to switch to electricity for ALL our building energy needs
Currently, one-third of our buildings are heated with oil, and two-thirds with propane. All our buildings use electricity.
How does that fuel and electricity get here?
Our propane and oil come over on the boats or on...
Climate Solutions: The easiest switch to make … get your electricity from a renewable...
One of the simplest ways to help with the goal of a 100% Renewable MV by 2040 is to join the Cape Light Compact's Local Green.
You may not be ready to install solar at...
Climate change course seeks to educate and inspire
The West Tisbury library is offering a three-session course for those interested in learning more about climate change, and how to use that knowledge to combat the devastating impacts it has on society.
The first...
Climate Solutions: Now is the time for us to address climate change!
“ The decade ahead will be one of the most crucial breakdown or breakthrough moments in the history of our species.”
– Terry Tempest Williams, environmental thinker & advocate
RIGHT NOW, HERE IS HOW WE USE...
Climate Solutions: Our moonshot moment
Thomas Friedman, NY Times columnist, says "… as bad as this pandemic is, it’s just training wheels for the big, irreversible atmospheric pandemic: climate change."
We were not prepared for the pandemic but we can...
To adapt or retreat: Mitigating coastal erosion on M.V.
It wasn’t a hurricane or a nor’easter that caused part of a 30-ton seawall on Martha’s Vineyard to collapse in 2008. Instead, it was a minor rain event. On a gloomy day in February,...
A half-century of Earth Days: The world is ours for the changing
Fifty years ago today, 20 million Americans — 10 percent of the population — gathered in the streets of cities and towns large and small to mark the planet’s first Earth Day.
The event —...
Island receives $54,000 in climate change funding
Island towns have received $54,000 in state grants to use in developing an Island-wide adaptive strategy to combat climate change, according to a press release from the Baker-Polito administration.
Overall, $11.6 million in grants were...
How to lessen your home’s contribution to climate change
The ICAN Climate Solutions library series continued Tuesday with a talk led by South Mountain engineer Marc Rosenbaum: “Beyond fossil-fuel homes.”
Rosenhaum, armed with more than 30 years of experience, is committed to making homes...
Aquinnah on track for MVP designation
On Thursday night, about 30 Aquinnah residents put their heads together to continue a discussion about how to prioritize adaptation strategies in response to sea level rise, storm surge, flooding, and other principal hazards...
MVC adopts emergency climate resolutions
Physicist Philip Duffy, president and executive director of the Woods Hole Research Center, gave a talk about climate change data and realities Thursday night at the Katharine Cornell Theater. Before a full house, Duffy,...
A fossil-fuel-free family
Noli Taylor has always been invested in eco-friendly living, but now she wants to take it a step further.
Taylor and her family, residents of Aquinnah, are working toward being a fossil-fuel-free family, meaning they...
Can M.V. go 100 percent renewable by 2040?
In late October, the Vineyard Sustainable Energy Committee (VSEC) and the Martha’s Vineyard Commission’s Climate Crisis Task Force unveiled a commitment to make all six towns on Martha’s Vineyard 100 percent renewable by 2040.
On...
‘Are you ready for anything?’
West Tisbury emergency management director Russell Hartenstine posed four questions to a group of about 30 people at the Oak Bluffs library Saturday afternoon:
Are you registered to receive emergency alerts from your town?
...
Making Martha’s Vineyard 100 percent renewable
Each year, Martha’s Vineyard uses the equivalent of the entire output of an average-size nuclear power plant operating for a month and a half, according to a recent study done for the Martha’s Vineyard...