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About Remain Nantucket:
Remain Nantucket is committed to supporting the evolution of a healthy year-round community across the island. Remain taps into continuous dialogue to identify challenges and explore solutions. By supporting resourceful thinking and research, Remain builds on Nantucket’s traditions of independence and innovation while adding expertise from a worldwide network. Remain Nantucket engages in charitable work as a subsidiary of the Schmidt Family Foundation.
Remain targets 3 areas of impact on Nantucket:
Environment
Remain joins island organizations in the thoughtful stewardship of our environment, green energy solutions and sustainable best practices.
Local Economy
Remain invests in and provides ongoing support to mission-related businesses so that they are positioned to succeed and contribute to a strong year-round economy.
Community
Remain supports and promotes social and cultural experiences that make Nantucket a welcoming, vibrant place for everyone.
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A thirty-second spot for nantucketfootprints.org, which Remain calls the island’s environmental, resiliency and sustainability resource. The narration names the Nantucket Conservation Foundation, the Nantucket Land Council and the Linda Loring Nature Foundation as already at work protecting the island for generations to come, and closes on the line that we can all help.
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Exciting news from the PFAS action group! Here are eight helpful ways to reduce PFAS exposure in your own home and to raise awareness about PFAS’ prevalence.
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An introduction to the first of the Nantucket Footprints virtual garden tours, a native biodiversity meadow at the Nantucket Conservation Foundation’s office on Cliff Road. Kelly Omand, the Foundation’s plant ecologist and botanist, narrates. She gives the project’s history: seed money from the Nantucket Garden Club, three years of work, a tangle of invasive species cleared by hand, and seed collected and grown on from the Foundation’s own properties. She explains what the planting is for — at least five species of goldenrod and several asters for pollinators, host plants whose caterpillars feed nesting birds, and late seed and berries for migration — and what it saves a homeowner: once established the plants need no supplemental watering and no fertilizer, and little herbicide or insecticide, since a diverse planting spreads insect damage thin and the insects themselves feed the birds. On a slope the deep roots slow and absorb runoff that a lawn cannot. She ends on the guided walks she leads there, which sold out the previous summer.
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A narrated spot on the island’s vote to ban some single-use plastics. The case it makes: the plastics litter the island, threaten its single-source aquifer, spoil its views and reach the oceans, where the narration says more than fourteen tons arrive every minute. It adds that the pandemic drove plastic consumption up and the ability to recycle it down, and closes on the line that the work starts one community at a time.
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A comic game show called What Goes Where, in which a returning champion sorts island rubbish against the clock. The categories are compostable, glass, tin and aluminum, plastic, and what the show calls neric — non-recyclable and non-compostable. The joke is the sportscaster treatment: a lightning round, running commentary on each call, and a string of invented titles for the champion at the end.
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Islanders show what they use in place of single-use plastics, played for laughs. Reusable shopping and produce bags; products packaged in glass or tin, the glass going into road surfacing on the island and the tin recycled off it; reusable sandwich bags; beeswax wraps instead of cling film; a reusable mug for a drink in town; and a takeaway salad packed in a glass jar. It ends on the line that the island once lived without single-use plastics and can do so again.
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