GROW PURPOSE DIGEST: LOWCOUNTRY GREEN NEWS – FEBRUARY 3

THE LOWCOUNTRY GREEN NEWS WEEKLY DIGEST

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LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS:

• Nonprofit acquires 94-acre Johns Island property for farmland advocacy

• Transit Equity Week: Don't Give Up Your Seat Lowcountry SC

• Decade-old plan for downtown Charleston connectivity to be put into motion

• Blue Crabs Are In Decline Up and Down the Atlantic Seaboard

• Town of Kiawah biologists band birds including South Carolina's Saltmarsh Sparrow

• Know before you go: Southeastern Wildlife Exposition

• South Carolina cooperative awarded $500M for clean energy projects

• CCL Guide to Oyster Season

• SC Aquarium's Boeing Learning Lab charts new course for city's Maritime Center

• A microscopic kingdom in peril? Rising seas could threaten SC's 'subterranean estuaries'

• RESEARCH: Investigating Water Quality in the Edisto Island Watershed

• State’s growing EV industry may face trouble from Trump

• Sustain SC Team Continues to Grow with Hiring of Marketing and Events Director

• ICYMI

  • 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 4: Carolinas Transit Equity Online Conference - Charleston Live Participation

• FEB 8: Building Healthy Communities 5K Run/Walk and Wellness Expo

• FEB 8: Save the Light Half Marathon & 5K Run/Walk

• FEB 14-16: SEWE Southeastern Wildlife Exposition 2025

• FEB 14: GrowFood Carolina Warehouse Tour – Valentine’s Day Themed

• FEB 15: SEWE: Cocktails and Conservation

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