After Covid-19 shocked the world a few years ago, efforts on the island of Nantucket to keep the island sustainable and more self-reliant kicked into high gear. Envision Resilience’s staff writer, Anna Popnikolova, interviewed several key players in the island’s agriculture and local food businesses on the importance of locally-grown produce, community-based solutions and teaching lessons of sustainability early.

One of the pillars of downtown Nantucket, Young’s Bicycle Shop has seen its fair share of flooding over the past 30 years. From the No Name Storm of 1991 to Winter Storm Grayson in 2018, Harvey shares his stories of how rising sea levels have affected this intergenerational family business and his plans for adapting to the future.

Karl and Susan Ottison are fourth-generation owners of their Nantucket Orange Street property. For as long as they remember, from their land that sits right up against the The Creeks Preserve, they’ve watched storms roll in and out and the tides slowly rise.

Jolie Jaycobs spent her youngest years jumping in and out of playful waves on Nantucket Island, one of the most eastern towns in the United States, 30 miles from Massachusetts’ mainland coast. In this blog, she writes about the impact that had on her understanding of resilience.

Two-thirds of Nantucket residents say they are more engaged on issues of climate change and coastal resilience than they were in 2021, according to a survey report released today by ReMain Nantucket’s Envision Resilience Nantucket Challenge team. The second in a two-part survey to measure community attitudes about climate change was conducted in January and February 2022.

Last year, ReMain Nantucket's Envision Resilience Nantucket Challenge survey found that 73% of Nantucketers are alarmed about climate change, a rate much higher than the national average of 33%. As part of the continued effort to expand and measure attitudes about climate change and sea level rise, they opened the second in their two-part survey this week.