THE LOWCOUNTRY GREEN NEWS DIGEST
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LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS:
- TRANSPORTATION SALES TAX
- Speak Up: Take the Transportation Sales Tax Survey
- A Bold Vision for Transportation and Greenspace in Charleston County
(recommendations from : Charleston Climate Coalition, Charleston Moves, Coastal Conservation League, and the East Coast Greenway Alliance) - Additional informational resources from Charleston Moves
- Attend: 2026 Charleston County Transportation Sales Tax Referendum community meetings
- Mount Pleasant launches pollinator garden program to boost sustainability
- Administrative law judge rules illegal seawall must come down
- A North Charleston nonprofit is suing the Trump administration. Here’s why the case matters.
- Lowcountry Land Trust adds 266 acres for new public park
- Resolution could bring updates or replacement to North Charleston’s North Bridge
- North Atlantic right whale still ‘close to extinction,’ continues slow recovery
- Interview: Exploring the Conservation Advocates Alliance with Evan Renshaw and Emily Childress
- Behind the Scenes at Sea Island Savory Herbs: The Farmers, the Plants, And Their Magical Makers Markets
GET INVOLVED:
- ENGAGE: BCDCOG Climate Action Plan Survey (part 2)
- PETITION THE CITY: Imagine It Better: The Just Ecological Corridor
- SPEAK UP: Hands Off Beidler Forest!
- SIGN & SHARE PETITION: Stop the Edisto River Gas Plant and Pipeline!
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- SC Aquarium program enables Lowcountry residents to help track sea level rise. Here’s how.
- Food insecurity deepens in Charleston area
- Sea level rise and frequent tides: understanding Charleston’s increasing coastal flooding
- 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 in the Lowcountry
FEATURED UPCOMING EVENTS:
- NOV 4: Fall Marsh Cleanup at Magnolia Landing
- NOV 6: 9th Annual Pedal & Panache
- NOV 6: Deveaux Bank: The Universe in a Grain of Sand
- NOV 6: SC Community Loan Fund’s Entrepreneur Conference 2025
- NOV 9: Buy Local Block Party
- NOV 9: The (Mock) Trial of Dominion Energy
- NOV 10: Wake Up with Bill McKibben
- NOV 13: 2nd Annual Farm-to-Planet: Sustainable Supper & Soirée
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