GROW PURPOSE DIGEST: LOWCOUNTRY GREEN NEWS – MAY 13

THE LOWCOUNTRY GREEN NEWS WEEKLY DIGEST

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LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS:

• CP View: Get real on future-proofing flood zones

• How urban mobility nonprofit Charleston Moves lobbies for bike, pedestrian, and public transit improvements

• After outcry, South Carolina plans to close an important, fragile shorebird sanctuary

• Mandates raise cost concern for purging carcinogens from Charleston water supply

• CARTA offering free rides to the beach all summer

• Million-dollar trail project could be coming to Mount Pleasant

• Senate pulls plug on energy bill. What does promising compromise mean for SC

• South Carolina Senate turns wide-ranging energy bill into resolution supporting more power

• Local Culinary Social Media Club Tops $65k in Donations to Charleston Nonprofits

• Sidney Frazier, 50 years at Middleton Place, is at the heart of the operation

• 8-year-old makes effort to save trees set to be cut down on Sullivan’s Island

• ICYMI

  • Why we need to pass the Plastic Pellet Free Waters Act

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

  • CCC Launches new online portal to make community data more accessible and empowering: Environmental Justice Community Profile

  • RESOURCE: Climate Literacy Communications Toolkit

ACT NOW:

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

• Stand up to big power companies on H.5118!

• Urge Congress to Hold Plastic Pellet Polluters Accountable!

• PETITION: Help Protect Black Skimmers and nesting islands!

• Submit COMMENTS: The harm of the I-526 Extension

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

• Urge your Senator to Support the Trail Tax Credits Bill!

• DEMAND the strongest possible pollution standards by May!

• Expand electric vehicle infrastructure in SC!

• Support thoughtful growth and land conservation!

• Lowcountry Thrives Green Business Program – Call for community FEEDBACK

• TAKE ACTION on transportation and mobility issues!

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Featured Upcoming Events:

• MAY 13: Clara’s Kids Club Cleanup – Brittlebank

• MAY 17: Creative Mornings CHS: Maria Kelly, Amor Healing Kitchen

• MAY 17: WSF Charity Golf Classic

• MAY 17-19: Rally for Clean Water

• MAY 18: Festival of Everything Plants

• MAY 18: Early Morning Bird Walk – West Ashley Park

• MAY 19: Toby Turtle Mid-May Sweep @ Folly Pier

• MAY 20-22: SC7 Resiliency Conference

• MAY 21: Lowcountry Lecture: Gardening with Native Plants for Bees (Native Bees + Honey Bees)

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