GROW PURPOSE DIGEST: LOWCOUNTRY GREEN NEWS – DECEMBER 9

THE LOWCOUNTRY GREEN NEWS WEEKLY DIGEST

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LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS:

• Family-Focused Rideshare Service Now Available in Charleston

• State committee pulls plug on I-526 expansion funding for Charleston County

• Slow Fish conference fights “big fish”

• Volunteers harvest marsh grass for West Ashley restoration project

• A 'conservation milestone,' red-cockaded woodpecker taken off endangered list

• Town of Mount Pleasant giving out free trees for South Carolina’s Arbor Day

• ‘Back to its roots’ New zoning to protect historic Angel Oak tree

• Charleston area transit systems improve with new LCRT phase and CARTA bus stops

• VIDEO: Greenbelt funds move passive park plan forward for Church Creek basin site

• ICYMI

  • Are Charleston’s leaders doing enough to fight climate change?

  • Friends of Gadsden Creek: Counter Proposal for resident-led development (updated link!)

  • PLATFORM: Engage Charleston County

  • Black Residents Say No To Climate Gentrification in Charleston

  • A patchwork of single-use plastic bans exist across Charleston. What’s banned near you?

  • Crisis in the Carolinas: Racial Disparities, the Climate Catastrophe and Environmental Racism and in the Lowcountry

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ACT NOW:

• SIGN PETITION: Ashley River Crossing: Keep the Connection to the Medical District

• Tell your U.S. senators: Support the Plastic Pellet Free Waters Act

• Urge Congress to Hold Plastic Pellet Polluters Accountable!

• PETITION: Preserve the Former Baker Hospital Site as a Park

• TAKE ACTION on transportation and mobility issues!

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NOV 21 - DEC 31

• DEC 12: Charleston Green Drinks: Green Gifting – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

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NEXT GREEN DRINKS EVENT: DECEMBER 12 

GREEN GIFTING: REDUCE, RECYCLE, REUSE @ PALMETTO BREWING

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