GROW PURPOSE DIGEST: LOWCOUNTRY GREEN NEWS – JULY 7

THE LOWCOUNTRY GREEN NEWS WEEKLY DIGEST

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LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS:

• Changes to blue crab laws coming in 2025

• Chef-run Charleston mushroom farm sells nearly 1,000 pounds to restaurants each week

• Pedicabs near a 40-year run in Charleston. Will city allow more on downtown streets?

• Charleston board approves tree removal on Daniel Island despite widespread opposition

• SIGN & SHARE PETITION: Stop the Edisto River Gas Plant and Pipeline!

• SPEAK UP: Tell Trump's EPA: Don't Kill Us With Your Polluting Power Plan

• All hands on deck: Volunteers needed to keep IOP beautiful

• Charleston City Paper: Get outside

• ICYMI

  • RESOURCE: Lowcountry Heat Action Plan Toolkit

  • SC Aquarium program enables Lowcountry residents to help track sea level rise. Here's how.

  • Food insecurity deepens in Charleston area

  • CARTA’s Beach Reach shuttle service to the beach now running through Labor Day

  • How coastal SC residents transform anxiety over climate change into productive action

  • Sea level rise and frequent tides: understanding Charleston's increasing coastal flooding

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

  • Take a hike: A guide to trails around Charleston

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

  • 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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• JUL 15: Manufactured Wire Reef Fabrication with SCDNR & lunch by Reeds Catering

• JUL 26-27: Folly Beach Wahine Classic

• AUG 7: Sierra Club Picnic on Shem Creek

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