Public Concern

This week Rebecca and Alan talk about the latest environmental news in South Carolina and food justice with April Jones of the Pinehurst Farmers Market in Columbia.

Public Concern is the weekly podcast from the South Carolina Conservation Coalition. The name of our podcast comes from Article 12 of the South Carolina Constitution, which is all about the functions of government: “The health, welfare, and safety of the lives and property of the people of this State...and the conservation of its natural resources are matters of public concern.” 

Subscribe, and send any questions you'd like for us to discuss at [email protected]. You can find out more at publicconcernpodcast.org.

The Pinehurst Farmers Market on Facebook

Music:
Beauty Flow by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5025-beauty-flow
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This week Rebecca and Alan talk about the two-week special session of the General Assembly, and we learn about heirs property from Jennie Stephens, the Chief Executive Officer of the Center for Heirs Property Preservation. 

Public Concern is the weekly podcast from the South Carolina Conservation Coalition. The name of our podcast comes from Article 12 of the South Carolina Constitution, which is all about the functions of government: “The health, welfare, and safety of the lives and property of the people of this State...and the conservation of its natural resources are matters of public concern.” 

Subscribe, and send any questions you'd like for us to discuss at [email protected]. You can find out more at publicconcernpodcast.org.

Center for Heirs Property Preservation

Commentary: We can’t let Charleston County destroy the Phillips community

Music:

Beauty Flow by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5025-beauty-flow

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This week Rebecca and Alan talk about hurricanes in South Carolina, and environmental issues with the return of the General Assembly.

Public Concern is the weekly podcast from the South Carolina Conservation Coalition. The name of our podcast comes from Article 12 of the South Carolina Constitution, which is all about the functions of government: “The health, welfare, and safety of the lives and property of the people of this State...and the conservation of its natural resources are matters of public concern.” 

Subscribe, and send any questions you'd like for us to discuss at [email protected]. You can find out more at publicconcernpodcast.org.

Winyah Rivers Alliance 

A Post and Courier story from September 2018 on the effort to keep coal ash out of the Waccamaw River 

Music:

Beauty Flow by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5025-beauty-flow

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This week Rebecca and Alan talk about environmental issues with the return of the General Assembly.

Public Concern is the weekly podcast from the South Carolina Conservation Coalition. The name of our podcast comes from Article 12 of the South Carolina Constitution, which is all about the functions of government: “The health, welfare, and safety of the lives and property of the people of this State...and the conservation of its natural resources are matters of public concern.” 

Subscribe, and send any questions you'd like for us to discuss at [email protected]. You can find out more at publicconcernpodcast.org.

CVSC Blog Post on Energy Poverty

Contact Your State Legislator about the Public Service Commission 

Music:

Beauty Flow by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5025-beauty-flow

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This week we’re talking about plastic pellet pollution with Andrew Wunderley, the Charleston Waterkeeper. 

Public Concern is the weekly podcast from the South Carolina Conservation Coalition. The name of our podcast comes from Article 12 of the South Carolina Constitution, which is all about the functions of government: “The health, welfare, and safety of the lives and property of the people of this State...and the conservation of its natural resources are matters of public concern.” 

Subscribe, and send any questions you'd like for us to discuss at [email protected]. You can find out more at publicconcernpodcast.org.

Charleston Waterkeeper 

Nurdle Patrol 

Music:

Beauty Flow by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5025-beauty-flow

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This week we’re talking about clean energy and how market reforms in how we generate electricity, with Maggie Shober of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy and Hamilton Davis from Southern Current.

Public Concern is the weekly podcast from the South Carolina Conservation Coalition. The name of our podcast comes from Article 12 of the South Carolina Constitution, which is all about the functions of government: “The health, welfare, and safety of the lives and property of the people of this State...and the conservation of its natural resources are matters of public concern.” 

Subscribe, and send any questions you'd like for us to discuss at [email protected]. You can find out more at publicconcernpodcast.org.

Find out more about the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy and Southern Current 

Check out the Energy Innovation report: Economic And Clean Energy Benefits Of Establishing A Southeast U.S. Competitive Wholesale Electricity Market

Music:

Beauty Flow by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5025-beauty-flow

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This week we’re talking about offshore drilling with Samantha Siegel of Oceana and Congressman Joe Cunningham from South Carolina’s first congressional district. 

Public Concern is the weekly podcast from the South Carolina Conservation Coalition. The name of our podcast comes from Article 12 of the South Carolina Constitution, which is all about the functions of government: “The health, welfare, and safety of the lives and property of the people of this State...and the conservation of its natural resources are matters of public concern.” 

Subscribe, and send any questions you'd like for us to discuss at [email protected]. You can find out more at publicconcernpodcast.org.

The New York Times article we mentioned: Pollution Is Killing Black Americans. This Community Fought Back.Sign up for the CVSC Virtual Film Screening of The Sacrifice Zone

Find out more about Oceana at their website, and you can contact Samantha Siegel by email at [email protected]. 

Music:
Beauty Flow by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5025-beauty-flow
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This week, we’re talking about the latest on voting with Lynn Teague of League of Women Voters, and about the campaign to save Bay Point, with Queen Quet of the Gullah/Geechee Nation, and Juliana Smith, with Coastal Conservation League. 

Public Concern is the weekly podcast from the South Carolina Conservation Coalition. The name of our podcast comes from Article 12 of the South Carolina Constitution, which is all about the functions of government: “The health, welfare, and safety of the lives and property of the people of this State...and the conservation of its natural resources are matters of public concern.” 

Subscribe, and send any questions you'd like for us to discuss at [email protected]. You can find out more at publicconcernpodcast.org.

Change.org Petition to Stop Bay Point Destructionment at St. Helena Island in the Gullah/Geechee Nation

Coastal Conservation League background on Bay Point 

Music:

Beauty Flow by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5025-beauty-flow

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This week, we’re talking about the big news on rooftop solar with Shelley Robbins with Upstate Forever and Thad Culley with Vote Solar. 

Public Concern is the weekly podcast from the South Carolina Conservation Coalition. The name of our podcast comes from Article 12 of the South Carolina Constitution, which is all about the functions of government: “The health, welfare, and safety of the lives and property of the people of this State...and the conservation of its natural resources are matters of public concern.” 

Subscribe, and send any questions you'd like for us to discuss at [email protected]. You can find out more at publicconcernpodcast.org.

Upstate Forever 

Vote Solar

John Lewis and his environmental legacy

Music:

Beauty Flow by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5025-beauty-flow

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This week, we talk about the intersection of energy, health, and racism with guest co-host Deitra Matthews of the Conservation Voters of South Carolina, and about a new lawsuit against DHEC over 3 coal plants in South Carolina with the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign.

Public Concern is the weekly podcast from the South Carolina Conservation Coalition. The name of our podcast comes from Article 12 of the South Carolina Constitution, which is all about the functions of government: “The health, welfare, and safety of the lives and property of the people of this State...and the conservation of its natural resources are matters of public concern.” 

Subscribe, and send any questions you'd like for us to discuss at [email protected]. You can find out more at publicconcernpodcast.org.

The CVSC Virtual Film Series, with SC Representative Wendy Brawley

Sarah Kaplan's story in the Washington Post on what Phoenix doing about building resilience as a city to extreme heat

Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign

Chloe Johnson's story in the Post and Courier on the Sierra Club lawsuit

Sammy Fretwell's story in The State on the Sierra Club lawsuit

Music:

Beauty Flow by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5025-beauty-flow

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/