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A weekly collection of updates from the Lowcountry’s
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LOCAL NEWS / ACTIONS/ RESOURCES:
- Lowcountry Rapid Transit System awarded $100 million
- Partnership Between Trust for Public Land and College of Charleston to Identify Pathways to Park Equity Through Policy
- Over $5.7M awarded for Lowcountry drainage projects
- Clemson University forms new school as globe switches to electric vehicles
- A guide to plant-based eating in Charleston
- P&C Editorial: Act sooner rather than later on possible Charleston parks referendum
- I’m Not Your Entertainment: Black and Indigenous Relevance and Relegation in Climate Action
- Citizen scientists track health of Shem Creek, other local waterways
- South Carolina to receive $20 million to improve rural electric infrastructure
- APPLY NOW: Environmental art projects grants from NY Foundation for the Arts
- INTERVIEW: Bea Girndt
- More pedicabs approved to come to downtown Charleston
- First of 3 Union Pier information sessions will cover flood protections
- Bike lane, other roadway improvements may be coming to King Street
- SURVEY: City of Charleston 2023 Hazard Mitigation Plan
- ACT NOW: Make your voice heard in support of clean air!
- ACT NOW: Stop Dominion from raising electric bill rates!
- PETITION (Re-opened) City Defers King Street Bike Lane
- SURVEY: Where Do You Want to Walk & Bike in North Charleston?
- SURVEY: Help Develop Charleston County Resilience Resource Map
MARK YOUR CALENDARS:
- MAR 20: Free Residential Composting Workshop
- MAR 22: SCHBC UPSTATE: “Wellbeing, Sustainability & Commerce: Connecting the Dots”
- MAR 22: Nature-Based Exchange Workshop (Columbia)
- MAR 23: 2nd Annual Waves 4 Women Turn the Tides
- MAR 24: Food Security Summit
- MAR 24: Drinks for Dolphins: Indigo Reef Brewing Co
- MAR 24: SC Project Learning Tree: Teaching Climate Science, Secondary Guide Workshop
- MAR 25: SEA you at Formal!
- MAR 25: Slow Food Community Potluck and Seed Swap!
- MAR 25: Garden and Grow: Plants for Pollinators
- MAR 26: AMOR Guest Chef Workshop – Filipino Food
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GLOBAL NEWS & RESOURCES
- More than 170tn plastic particles afloat in oceans, say scientists
- To Make Progress on Climate Action, Pop ‘Normative Bubbles’
- Can net-zero homes really be affordable?
- A French startup is using enormous, 2,700-foot kites to pull cargo ships across the ocean
- Chart: Clean energy to make up 84% of new US power capacity in 2023
- An ‘Unsexy’ System for Greening Fashion That Actually Works
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