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Nantucket Footprints is pleased to present a curated series of articles about how to keep Nantucket beautiful for future generations.
Managing Trash & Plastics Ban Education
Nantucket Footprints supports the Town of Nantucket for all of its efforts in keeping our island protected and litter-free. Please read the following announcement from them and share it with others. T…
Nantucket PFAS Update
The Town’s consultant, CDM Smith, presented a report to the Select Board in February 2021 on their initial review of potential sources of Per- and Poly-fluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) on Nantucket. The …
Coastal Resilience Exhibit at NHA’s Macy Warehouse
Envision Resilience: Designs for Living with Rising Seas Thomas Macy Warehouse • 12 Straight Wharf, Nantucket Opening July 2021 Final design proposals from the five participating universities in the E…
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 …
Managing Trash & Plastics Ban Education
Nantucket PFAS Update
Coastal Resilience Exhibit at NHA’s Macy Warehouse
The annual Nantucket Biodiversity Initiative
Nantucket’s Water Quality Analysis & Visualization (WQAV) Public Interface
Envision Resilience Nantucket Public Presentation
Hazardous Waste Collection Event
Mass Audubon’s Youth Climate Committee – Climate Cafe
ReMain Nantucket Purchases Annye’s Whole Foods Building; Pip and Anchor to be New Tenants, Continuing Healthy Food Vision for Island
Nantucket Litter Derby 2021
Clean Water for All
Nantucket Science Festival 2021
HOW MICROPLASTICS ARE INFILTRATING THE MARINE FOOD CHAIN
DPW Textile Collection Events
Managing Water as Sea Levels Rise, What to Expect in the Future and Preparing to Respond
The Nantucket Coastal Resilience Plan Open House
Microplastics on Nantucket
Let’s have a Safe & Healthy Halloween!
Climate Preparedness Week 2020
Sustainability at Nantucket High School: How we Move Forward
Hurricanes: The Future of Coastal Cities
2020 Maria Mitchell Women of Science Symposium
Climate Change on a Local Level
Climate Change Awareness Walk(s)
Resilient Nantucket: Preparing Your Historic Property for a Future of Rising Seas
Clean Water: Topics on Tap Series
The Clean Team Trash Pickup
Rescuing History: Nantucket in Response to Rising Seas
2020 Nantucket Census
2020 State of the Harbor Forum
Nantucket Green Crab Week
Nantucket Land Council’s Annual Beach Cleanup
ReMain Nantucket Launches Envision Resilience: Nantucket Challenge, Calling on Design Students to Reimagine Nantucket Harbor
The Maria Mitchell Association SCIENCE SPEAKER SERIES COASTAL LANDSCAPES IN AN ERA OF SEA LEVEL RISE with DR. ANDREA DUTTON
The Linda Loring Virtual Science Pub with Dr. Jenica Allen of Mount Holyoke College
Nantucket Land Council Clean Water Series
Maria Mitchell Association Virtual Science Series
Nantucket Land Council Clean Water Series
Maria Mitchell Association Virtual Science Series
Race for Open Space 2020
Nantucket Preservation Trust will honor its 2020 Preservation Award winners online
Ten Years of Nantucket Harbor Research
Nantucket Walking Trail Maps
Nantucket STAYING ABOVE WATER
Refuse to Use Single-Use Plastics On Nantucket
Mass Audubon and Maria Mitchell Association’s annual Bird-a-thon fundraiser.
Nantucket Land Council’s Eelgrass Health and Restoration Project
Virtual Science Pub with Dr. Sarah Bois
Preparing Nantucket for Climate Change
2020 Census – Make it Count Nantucket
Science Pub Series Hosted by The Linda Loring Nature Foundation
Second Annual Nantucket Litter Derby is Canceled
Dr. Jen Karberg, Lecture Nantucket’s Salt Marshes and Coastal Resilience
Food Rescue Nantucket
Nantucket Bats are the new year-round residents!
Shimmo Creek Oyster Restoration Project
Stay Classy Not Trashy
Sorting NRNC on Nantucket
Take Steps to be Multimodal on Nantucket
Reducing the Impact of Waste
Favorite Island APPs
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