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LOCAL NEWS / ACTIONS/ RESOURCES:
- Get the 411 on environmental organizations in Charleston
- Choose Local Food Hospitality Grant
- Progress Implementing Charleston’s Climate Action Plan
- New Local Nonprofit Launches to advance regional, climate-smart & Equitable Housing Solutions
- Charleston vertical farm lands more seed money from SCRA
- Lowcountry Land Trust Protects Additional 512 Acres at Sheldon Plantation
- City unveils first draft of new ordinance to expand EV charging infrastructure
- Commentary: Keep current design for Isle of Palms connector bike, pedestrian lanes
- Commentary: I-526 extension would transform Charleston County, Johns Island — in a bad way
- Microplastics can be in oysters you eat — and hard to flush out, Citadel researchers find
- Judge rules former settlement to cut maritime forest on Sullivan’s Island is unenforceable
- Lowcountry leaders work to continue reducing the use of single use plastics
- Peninsula storm surge project receives federal authorization to move forward
- PETITION: North Charleston Needs Safe Transportation Access
- PETITION: King St Needs a Buffered Bike Lane
- SURVEY: Where Do You Want to Walk & Bike in North Charleston?
- SURVEY: Help Develop Charleston County Resilience Resource Map
- RESOURCE: The Sustainable Angler on OHM RADIO – Every week on Sat at 2:00 PM
- SUPPORT Fresh Future Farm expansion wish list
MARK YOUR CALENDARS:
- FEB 15: MountainFilm on Tour
- FEB 16:Intro to Eco-Design and Planting for Pollinators
- FEB 18: Birding 101 – Introduction to Bird Watching
- FEB 18: Amor Healing Kitchen 5 Year B-Day Dinner
- FEB 18: Garden at Colonial Lake
- FEB 18: Vax-a-Palooza
- FEB 18: SEWE Cocktails and Conversation (Saturday)
- FEB 19: SEWE Cocktails and Conversation (Sunday)
- FEB 19: Clements Ferry Adopt a Highway Cleanup
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GLOBAL NEWS
- RESOURCE: Real Estate for Radicals: co-ops, community land trusts, communes, and squats
- REPORT: A zero emissions future without the mining boom
- 40 Global Warming Facts That You Need to Know Right Now
- REPORT: Offshore wind will need major investments in transmission, supply chain
- Food pantries that give away stuff people can’t or won’t cook have an ‘acorn squash problem’
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