Tuesday, August 15, 1:00 pm – Climate Change and the Natural Environment
The Martha’s Vineyard Garden Club will hold its Annual Meeting at The Old Mill in West Tisbury on Tuesday, August 15 at 1 pm. The speaker will be Liz Durkee of the Martha’s Vineyard Commission. She will present a program on Climate Change and the Natural Environment. Climate change is stressing the natural environment, from coastal erosion to biodiversity loss. The best
way to adapt is to work with nature, not against it. We’ll look at the impacts, what’s being done to address climate change, and investigate positive actions you can take to help make the Island as climate change resilient as possible.
Liz hopes attendees will gain an understanding of how climate change is affecting the island’s natural environment and inspiration to take positive action to address the impacts.
Liz is the climate change planner at the Martha’s Vineyard Commission. She spent summer vacations on the Island growing up and moved here full-time in 1983. She was the conservation agent for the Town of Oak Bluffs for twenty-two years before being hired as the Commission’s first climate change planner in 2021. As the conservation agent she became concerned about sea level rise and that led her to months of off-duty research to understand how climate change would specifically affect the Vineyard. The result
was 9 fifteen-part series in the Vineyard Gazette way back in 2011, called Climate Change on Martha’s Vineyard. Last year the Commission released the Island’s first Climate Action Plan, The Vineyard Way: Connected to Our Past, Committed to Our Future. https://thevineyardway.org/plan-development
FREE to MVGC Members / Open to non-members @ $10.00 pp
