Author Archives: Mary Edna

Act today to challenge global climate change

Yesterday, the People’s Climate March made history with the biggest climate action ever. World leaders are meeting in New York City for the United Nations Climate Summit in New York tomorrow, September 23. You can join me by singing this letter on 350.org or sending your own message. They state: I stand with the People’s […]
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Our Common Thread: Environmental Awareness

Mary Edna Fraser’s silk batiks of aerial, underwater, and outer space imagery present a colorful and unique sense of place with a common thread of environmental awareness. The lecture will show how Fraser uses her iconic images in collaboration with scientists, including planetary geologist Ted Maxwell of the Smithsonian, coastal geologist Orrin H. Pilkey of […]
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Cyrus Buffum’s editorial in the Post & Courier

Cyrus Buffum, executive director of Charleston Waterkeeper, wrote an editorial that was published by the Post & Courier on Thursday, October 18th.  In his article, 40 years later, Clean Water Act a local — and national — triumph, he tells us that many of Charleston’s waterways are still unfit for swimming and fishing despite the strides that […]
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