Alex Renaud, a student of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Architecture at Northeastern University and a participant in the Envision Resilience Nantucket Challenge, reflects on the island community and its ability to adapt.

The Envision Resilience Nantucket Challenge, with the goal of inspiring Nantucket and other coastal communities around the world to envision innovative adaptations to sea level rise, began as a call to action. In the fall of 2019, Wendy Schmidt—founder of ReMain Nantucket—and the team at ReMain Nantucket sat down to talk about sea level rise: a dire issue for coastal communities around the globe.