Category Archives: United States

Success in South Carolina thanks to the Coastal Conservation League

By Celie Dailey | Published: June 10, 2014
Environmentalists and industrialists found common ground here in South Carolina after agreeing on a plan to remove and recycle coal ash at 3 Santee Cooper power plants. Spurred by a lawsuit by the Coastal Conservation League, coal ash stored in ponds will be recycled into cement rather than permanently encased on site. A June 7th […]
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Our Common Thread: Environmental Awareness

By Mary Edna | Published: June 3, 2014
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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Our home in Charleston, SC is at great risk due to climate change

By Celie Dailey | Published: May 8, 2014
The blog ThinkProgress.org highlighted the uneven impacts of across the United States in their May 7th article, “The Southeast U.S. Has Had More Billion-Dollar Disasters Than The Rest Of The Country Combined”. The Obama administration’s National Climate Assessment was just released, showing that the Southeast and Caribbean are vulnerable in nearly every realm where we […]
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