by Andrew Gottlieb | Oct 22, 2025 | What I'm Thinking
Almost 500 people gathered at Mashpee Town Meeting Monday night to resoundingly vote yes on a wastewater treatment system for Mashpee Wakeby Pond. Both the outcome of the vote and the turnout restored a little of my faith in our ability to come together and...
by Andrew Gottlieb | Oct 15, 2025 | What I'm Thinking
If your town has a fall town meeting, and many do in the next few weeks, you need to go. Why? The thought here is that the importance of decisions made locally has never been more important that it is now. The federal government is shut down, and the states are...
by Andrew Gottlieb | Oct 1, 2025 | What I'm Thinking
APCC is widely known for batting above our weight. Part of the reason our very talented but relatively small staff can cover so much ground is the help we get from our dedicated volunteers. Over 300 volunteers give their time to support our work in every way...
by Andrew Gottlieb | Sep 24, 2025 | What I'm Thinking
Living on Cape Cod we are accustomed to life on shifting sands. It is hard to live on a sandbar amidst both rising tides and the relentless pounding of the surf and to not at least be aware of the transience of everything. Reconciling our minds with this reality...
by Andrew Gottlieb | Sep 11, 2025 | What I'm Thinking
Despair is a word I hear a lot these days. There is a daily flood of bad environmental news about federal resource protection rules that once protected our land, waters and atmosphere being ignored, hollowed out, or repealed. The initial response of outrage has been...
by Andrew Gottlieb | Aug 27, 2025 | What I'm Thinking
A sure sign of the coming end of summer is the departure back to school of our summer interns. APCC has had a long tradition of summer interns making major contributions to the field work that so dominates our summers. The summer of 2025 was no exception as our...
