12 Sep, 2023 This morning we have another climate emergency wake up call. We can't afford to hit the snooze button again. By Jeff Porter This morning, everyone who lives or works near the Barrett Pond Park Dam in Leominster, Massachusetts has been told evacuate immediately....
25 Jul, 2023 The Boston Globe reports another climate change casualty, it is still way too hard to protect ourselves against rising waters & time is running out. By Jeff Porter The Boston Globe is following the Nantucket Current in reporting on another of the countless casualties of coastal erosion caused by our...
04 Sep, 2022 Dramatic "Shoreline Realignment" In Store For Nantucket's Eastern Shore As Bitter Intra-Governmental Dispute Continues By Jeff Porter Just before the Labor Day holiday, a Massachusetts Superior Court Judge allowed the Nantucket Conservation Commission to move one step...
10 Mar, 2022 A plan for East Boston is great. But we need one for downtown too! By Jeff Porter Kudos to Shirley Leung of The Boston Globe for concisely recounting the past 15 years of Boston waterfront planning, where it has and...
09 Mar, 2022 Retreating from the ocean may be easy, but that doesn't mean it is the right thing to do. By Jeff Porter The collapse of a section of Newport's Cliff Walk has captured our attention. In a Boston Globe report, Dean Greenstein of Roger...
16 Feb, 2022 When it comes to coastal resilience, late isn't better than never! By Jeff Porter It is one of the most well worn maxims in the English language: better late than never! But yesterday the National Oceanic and...
26 Aug, 2021 Protecting coastal communities from a GHG supercharged climate isn't just about the money By Jeff Porter We know it is going to cost millions if not billions of dollars to protect our coastal communities from the rising seas and storm surge...
11 Aug, 2021 The IPCC smashed the climate change snooze button and Congress is waking up. By Jeff Porter Much has been written about the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report this week telling us what we already knew...