GROW PURPOSE DIGEST: LOWCOUNTRY GREEN NEWS – APRIL 28

THE LOWCOUNTRY GREEN NEWS WEEKLY DIGEST

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LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS:

• Office or Resilience and Sustainability to Host Waterwise: Charleston Open Houses

• Folks can breathe freely in Myrtle Beach, but other SC cities are seeing more air pollution

• Dorchester Co. opens second kayak launch, provides public access to Ashley River

• NOAA employees dread future amid ongoing cuts, layoffs

• Charleston County considers more than $3 million in greenbelt projects

• Charleston Planetarium Officially Opens its Doors on May 3

• City of Charleston hosts public input meeting about Lowcountry Lowline project

• SPEAK UP:

  • ACT NOW: Tell your Senator to stop the Automatic Rate Increase Act

  • SC Senate passes sweeping energy bill aimed at meeting SC’s growing power needs

• ICYMI

  • Preserving Our Future Amidst Unprecedented Growth

  • City of Charleston launches the first-ever environmental corridor in Southeast

  • Thorvalson Wins S.C. Environmental Awareness Award

  • REPORT: LCV’s annual National Environmental Scorecard

  • Paper, plastic, metal: SC app shows what, where and how to recycle

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

  • 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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Featured Upcoming Events:

MAY is …
MOBILITY MONTH

• MAY 1: Rooted in Resilience: Nature-Based Solutions for South Carolina’s Ecosystems

• MAY 2: Community Litter Sweep with The Sustainability Institute at COAST Brewing

• MAY 3: A Marvel-ous Youth Fishing Rodeo at Colonial Lake

• MAY 10: Native Plant Festival

• MAY 10: Palmetto Trail and Pitcher Plants Hike in the Francis Marion National Forest

MORE EVENTS:
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