GROW PURPOSE DIGEST: LOWCOUNTRY GREEN NEWS – FEBRUARY 17

THE LOWCOUNTRY GREEN NEWS WEEKLY DIGEST

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LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS:

• Mount Pleasant company connects Lowcountry students to nature through field trips and summer camps

• Q+A with Hamilton Horne of King Tide Farms

• Charleston seamstress turns fashion into passion with clothing brand

• SC's oyster farm industry is feeding local restaurants. It's also nourishing Palmetto State waters.

• Green liquid seen in Charleston Harbor is not harmful, officials say

• Local advocates organize meeting about concerns over Gullah Geechee burial sites threatened by new development

• Charleston nonprofit expands protected region with new easement

• ICYMI

  • CCL Guide to Oyster Season

  • Charleston Parks Conservancy announces its 2025 key projects

  • 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

  • Family-Focused Rideshare Service Now Available in Charleston

  • 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:

• FEB 20: Meet the CCL Staff: Communities & Transportation

• FEB 21: Green Drinks on the Road: Designing Tidal Futures

• FEB 21: Oyster Shell Litter Clean Up with SCDNR

• FEB 23: Sierra Club Robert Lunz Group Oyster Roast and Auction!

• FEB 25-27: SC Nonprofit Summit (Columbia)

• FEB 26: Where the Wild Things 5K Run/Walk

• FEB 27: Plants That Work in the Lowcountry

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