Liz Durkee
Island life is infused with the rhythm of the sea.
Salt marshes are superheroes. Our coastal wetlands store flood water, absorb carbon dioxide and filter pollutants.
It is one thing to live on an Island. It is quite another to do so as the sea rises, storms get mightier and the rain falls harder and more often.
Government work is a thankless job. It is no small feat to tackle sea level rise and extreme weather, especially on an Island.
It is not the old guard leading the local climate activism charge.
Eight years ago I wrote a series for the Vineyard Gazette on the growing impacts of climate change on Martha’s Vineyard.