Category Archives: South Carolina

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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Take action now to protect the Edisto River

By Celie Dailey | Published: April 9, 2014
Today, this issue was the featured article on the front page of the Post & Courier. A mass email was sent out via the Conservation Voters of South Carolina informed us: “This morning, the Edisto River was named as the 6th Most Endangered River in the United States. As the longest free-flowing blackwater river in […]
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