Climate change impacts are affecting our health and well-being, the natural world, the built environment, and the Island economy. What can you do to make a difference? Take part in MV Climate Action Week! Climate Action Week is a community engagement project organized under the MV Climate Action Plan, developed by the Martha’s Vineyard Commission to create a resilient community in the face of climate change. Join us May 8-14th for a week of climate related events, to acquire the awareness and resources to make informed decisions and take positive action.
A Finale Event will be held at the Grange on May 14th from 10am-2pm, featuring an assortment of climate action information, giveaways, art & children’s activities, aquaculture & raw bar, an electric vehicle fleet, food, and a short presentation on the MV Climate Action Plan. Programming will include music with Tristan Israel & Company, featuring a performance by Molly Conole and Mark Lovewell with songs created just for the occasion at 11am, and an MVFF Film Screening of the documentary YOUTH v GOV at 12pm.
Click HERE for the complete schedule of Climate Action Week events, including the following in-person events taking place in Vineyard Haven:
Retreating From the Shore: Time to Start the Conversation
5:30 pm Monday May 9th, in-person at the Martha's Vineyard Film Center
Sea levels are rising. Soon, they’ll rise faster. Is it time to retreat from the shore? How do we decide where to adapt and where to retreat? What’s going to happen to Beach Road, or the hospital? In this moderated conversation, climate planners and scientists will discuss beach and salt marsh loss, projects that have successfully mitigated for coastal change (Squibnocket and the Gay Head Lighthouse), explore ideas, and take audience questions.
https://www.thevineyardway.org/event/84-retreating-from-the-shore:-time-to-start-the-conversation
FILM: The Need to Grow
6 pm Monday May 9th, in-person at the Martha's Vineyard Playhouse
In a race against the end of farmable soil, three individuals fight for change in the industry of agricultural food production, calling for a revolution. "The Need to GROW" delivers alarming evidence on the importance of healthy soil — revealing not only the potential of localized food production working with nature, but our opportunity as individuals to help regenerate our planet’s dying soils and participate in the restoration of the Earth.Island Grown Initiative's Noli Taylor and their regenerative farming consultant, Andrew Woodruff, will speak after the film.
https://www.thevineyardway.org/event/83-film:-the-need-to-grow
Arnie's Poetry Cafe presents the Cleaveland House Poets: Poems for the Earth
6 pm Tuesday May 10th, In-Person at the Martha's Vineyard Playhouse
A night of poetry for the earth, by the Cleaveland House Poets. Cleaveland House Poets are based in the 1740 Cleaveland House in West Tisbury on the Island of Martha's Vineyard. Founded in 1963 by Dionis Coffin Riggs in her family home. It is considered the oldest continuous poetry group in the northeast and possibly further.
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