GROW PURPOSE DIGEST: LOWCOUNTRY GREEN NEWS – APRIL 21

THE LOWCOUNTRY GREEN NEWS WEEKLY DIGEST

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LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS:

• Preserving Our Future Amidst Unprecedented Growth

• Reale: How flowers help to shape social movements

• Man Pleads Guilty to Selling Sperm Whale Teeth and Bones

• Flood risks getting worse along US coastlines, new analysis shows

• Q+A with Kevin Hartley, CEO and founder of Cambio Roasters

• Charleston City leaders looking to restore downtown creek in decade-old plan

• As many rethink how they'll be put to rest, a new Lowcountry cemetery offers a 'return to the earth'

• Charleston Planning Commission rejects downtown property rezoning proposal

• Nonprofit advocates for no more hotels on peninsula

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

• Local organizations build manufactured wire reefs, protecting marine wildlife

• Colonial Lake revitalization expected to be completed by October

• Mount Pleasant pushes education, protection of waterways in wake of growth

• Holding Water: The Watermelon & the Black Agrarian Legacy

• Charleston County acquires ‘trenchless’ technology to fix stormwater pipes

• 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

  • Thorvalson Wins S.C. Environmental Awareness Award

  • REPORT: LCV’s annual National Environmental Scorecard

  • A Chat with Belvin Olasov, Local Activist & Co-Director of the Charleston Climate Coalition

  • TELL YOUR REP: Protect Customers and the Environment from H.3309

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

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

  • Friends of Gadsden Creek: Counter Proposal for resident-led development

  • 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:

APRIL is ...
LOWCOUNTRY EARTH MONTH

• APR 22: South Carolina Sea Turtles & Manatees – Conservation in Action

• APR 26-27: High Water Festival

• APR 27: PREMIERE SCREENING: ‘Free Boat to Good Home’

• APR 27: Blessing of the Fleet

• APR 27: Picnic for the Parks 2025

• 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

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