Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Climate & Environment

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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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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?’

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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

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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...

Chilmark names climate change working group

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Updated 2:40 pm Chilmark selectmen approved a six-member climate change working group Tuesday in an effort to address climate issues facing Chilmark. The group was formed by selectman Jim Malkin, and is comprised of himself, town...

Your Martha’s Vineyard climate change roadmap

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There’s no longer any question that climate change is real. Dukes County is ranked one of the fastest warming regions in the nation, and sea level rise continues to change the character of Martha’s...

Chilmark forms climate change working group

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Chilmark selectmen voted unanimously Tuesday night to form a five- to seven-member climate change working group to address the needs of the town and to work with the Martha’s Vineyard Commission. Selectman Jim Malkin...

Series is focused on climate change solutions

A series of six climate change forums are being planned, including two in the month of October. The series is titled “Climate Solutions for the Vineyard: Be Proactive/Be Prepared.” On Tuesday, Oct. 15, at 4...

Island must adapt to rising seas and stronger storms

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Dutch architect and urbanist Matthijs Bouw says the Island will need to work across boundaries and disciplines in order to adapt to the growing effects of climate change. Bouw, founding principal of One Architecture, had...

New federal report contradicts White House

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On Nov. 3, 13 federal agencies jointly released an updated report that determined that global warming was continuing to contribute to sea-level rise, increased severe storms, colder winters, warmer summers, and drought. The cause,...

Martha’s Vineyard Transit Authority gets grant for greener buses

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The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) and the Martha’s Vineyard Transit Authority (VTA) have been jointly awarded a $1.2 million grant for low or no-emission (“LoNo”) transit buses by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA)....

Greening Martha: The argument for more working farmland and woodland

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Widespread management for agriculture or wood production on the Vineyard’s limited land area may seem counterintuitive or trivial when stacked up against the Island’s economic reality and high levels of consumption. Shouldn’t the Vineyard’s...