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Light Pollution on Nantucket: How Bad Is It?
From nantucketlights.org Light Pollution on Nantucket: How Bad Is It? The light pollution on Nantucket is not as bad as in many other places, but it's growing at an alarming rate. Do you ever look up…
Plastics Free July Challenge
From PlasticsFree.org Join millions of people in reducing their plastic waste. Plastic Free July® is a global movement that helps millions of people be part of the solution to plastic pollution – so w…
Free Book Talk with Cynthia Barnett
Free Book Talk with Cynthia Barnett July 15, 2021 Envision Resilience Nantucket invites you to a FREE book talk with Cynthia Barnett at 6:00 PM on Thursday, July 15, 2021, at First Congregational Chur…
The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans
The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans by Cynthia Barnett Cynthia Barnett is the author of three previous books, including Rain, which was longlisted for the National Book Award an…
Refuse to use single-use plastics
Rising sea waters, massive storm surges, and plastics bobbing in the middle of the oceans have left the residents of Nantucket feeling like they are on the front-lines of looming global challenges. I…
The annual Nantucket Biodiversity Initiative
The annual Nantucket Biodiversity Initiative is underway all this week, through Sunday, June 13. Multiple conservation and natural science organizations will showcase the teeming biodiversity found on…
Nantucket’s Water Quality Analysis & Visualization (WQAV) Public Interface
Open to all. Friday, June 11, 2021 5 pm Town of Nantucket's Natural Resources Department presents: Water Quality on the Web Sea Grant Program, MIT’s Ben Bray in partnership with the Nantucket Natural …