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Hello Nantucket!
Most of the Bluedot crew working on this magazine are based on the “other” island. Some of us have been traveling back and forth as we worked on launching a Bluedot Green Guide on Nantucket, and realizing we previously only went to Nantucket on the SSA special boat to cheer on our football team. Turns out there are a lot of reasons to visit beyond watching our team lose to you!
We launched Bluedot Living as a print magazine on Martha’s Vineyard just over three years ago. We knew there was a lot of great reporting on climate change, the sum of it being … overwhelming. We wanted to make a magazine that could help readers understand what they could do to live each day more sustainably — in how they shopped, cooked, planted, traveled, and designed their homes. We wanted to celebrate the changemakers and the hard workers who are addressing climate change in our communities every day.
Since that first magazine and newsletter, we’ve gone on to launch newsletters in eight locations, from Boston to Los Angeles, as well as several national newsletters including the soon-to-be-launched Bluedot Kitchen. We will be launching a biweekly Nantucket newsletter in a few weeks. You can sign up for all/any of those here. With all of these (reaching more than 300,000 people), we are aiming to “connect the dots.” We want to use local stories to inspire people in other communities to share resources and solutions, and to celebrate the treasures — people, places, wildlife — we have in our own backyards.
I’ve been inspired by how passionate, kind, generous, and organized Nantucketers are (turns out having one town per island has advantages over having … six). I especially want to thank Remain, which has supported our Nantucket Bluedot Green Guide launch, as well as the Osceola Foundation, Inc.
And we could not have done this without Will Kinsella, who suggested story ideas, wrote stories, supplied images, and connected us to, well, everyone. Very grateful, Will.
Thank you.
–Jamie Kageleiry
