Environment

The town, Marblehead Housing Authority and Sustainable Marblehead have been awarded from the Metropolitan Area Planning Council to advance “Resilient by Design: Cooling Marblehead’s Housing for the Future,” a climate resilience initiative aimed at improving community spaces within public housing sites and to reduce urban heat island effect while protecting vulnerable residents. The four public housing sites that will be involved with the project are New Farrell Court, Powderhouse Court, Green Street and Barnard Hawkes Court. This project will focus on safeguarding elderly, low-income and…

On Aug. 13, more than a dozen Marbleheaders participated in a Rail Trail site walk and listening session to hear about the planned improvements to the trail, ask questions, learn about the trail’s history and talk about their concerns. At 4 p.m., the group set off on their walk from the Tower School down the Rail Trail to the Lead Mills conservancy, where they were led by Community  Development and Planning Director Brendan Callahan. After completing the trip, they met up again at the Post…

On a warm summer evening last week, people gathered in Vanessa Moody’s backyard to learn more about a nonprofit that uses bees and biodiversity science to help communities and companies take meaningful action for nature. The Urban Bee Lab leverages technologies like AI-powered microphones and environmental DNA sampling to collect and translate ecological data. It then designs programs that restore nature across both urban and rural landscapes. UBL founder Dr. Noah Wilson-Rich spoke at the Marblehead event about an upcoming partnership with the United Nations…