Recent local events give me hope at a time when climate change news is becoming more and more dire.
Climate change
July 22, 2021
Kate Warner
As a heat dome persists over the American West, an untamable wildfire rages over southern Oregon and record hot temperatures and water shortages make life in the West difficult, floods in much of Europe — Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, Switzerland, parts of England and now China — have also had a devastating effect.
July 22, 2021
Noah Asimow
Eversource has canceled a long-awaited battery energy storage project planned for Martha’s Vineyard, complicating a plan to achieve ambitious green energy goals on the Vineyard.
August 12, 2021
Brendan O'Neill
The Martha’s Vineyard Commission is taking an important step to address the Island’s growth crisis through a new carrying capacity study.
2021
December 30, 2021
In terms of climate change, 2021 was a chaotic and destructive year with almost constant record-breaking extreme weather events.
December 27, 2021
The $4 million reconstruction project at Memorial Wharf in Edgartown is nearly halfway finished and on track for completion by spring. The project will raise the wharf about a foot and a half.
December 16, 2021
More than 100 people with a wide range of backgrounds atended an online meeting as the Island formally kicked off its climate action plan.
November 15, 2021
Over the past year, it has become increasingly clear that climate change is accelerating.
September 2, 2021
Two major state and federal grants announced this week will help launch phase two of a Martha’s Vineyard climate change planning initiative and stem Island food insecurity during the ongoing pandemic.
August 19, 2021
Last week the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a harrowing report on the impacts of global warming.
