Listen to the latest episode of the podcast, featuring Mary Edna’s artwork on the home page, HERE: Episode 15: Rediscovering the Wonder of Water
The Outfall
2021 Carolinas Climate Resilience Conference
The closing plenary session of the 3-day 2021 Carolinas Climate Resilience Conference entitled, “Communicating Climate through the Arts”, occurs May 12th in Durham NC. The session will include various artists sharing their work to motivate action on climate change through different forms of art, including music, puppetry, painting, and fabric arts. Participants will build knowledge of creative and innovative strategies to communicate and visualize climate-related information with diverse audiences. Session speakers include:
- Melody Hunter Pillion (Moderator), Journalist & Historian
- April Hiscox, University of South Carolina, Climatology & Fabric Arts
- Mary Edna Fraser, Artist & Musician
- Judy Twedt, Musician
- Donovan Zimmerman, Paperhand Puppet Intervention
Simply CLICK on the image of “Earthscaping” to view a short video about Mary Edna’s works in her book with Orrin Pilkey entitled Global Climate Change: A Primer.
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Say NO to I-526 Extension
“The environmentally destructive 526 extension plan still looms over Charleston County and our beloved sea islands at a projected cost of close to $800 million and likely much more. The latest cost estimate is $772 million using 2019 dollars, which is more than $50 million higher than the last cost estimate completed four years earlier in 2015 (CCL). The project includes a shocking 6.1 miles of bridges over our Stono River. If you’ve ever picked up trash under the JI Connector, you know what the damaging result of this will be on our river and marine life.
This plan will destroy 30+ acres of our James Island County Park, and will fill in several acres of wetlands near the Riverland Dr./Maybank intersection, not to mention the destruction of hundreds of acres of marsh, greenspace and trees in rural and suburban areas on Johns and James Islands. (Some 17+ acres of sea islands wetlands will be impacted in the entire project.)
Please read more about the detrimental impacts of this horribly outdated project at Coastal Conservation League’s website here: https://www.coastalconservationleague.org/projects/i-526-extension/
Read the Post and Courier’s editorial opposing the 526 extension here: https://www.postandcourier.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-meet-the-new-526-extension-same-as-the-old-526-extension/article_3462b69c-004b-11ec-8690-13dc08eb41dc.html
Submit your “No Build” comment to SCDOT TODAY or by Oct. 15 and make sure that everyone in your household (18+) does, too. Deadline is October 15. If you need help with talking points, please read CCL’s info at the link above. Comment here: https://www.scdotmarkclark.com/get-involved OR Email: in**@SC************.com ….”
(Text by Susan Milliken)