Category Archives: Global

Act today to challenge global climate change

By Mary Edna | Published: September 22, 2014
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 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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Engineering Venice & reflections on Charleston

By Celie Dailey | Published: November 13, 2012
With the recent news of Venice flooded, we revisit Mary Edna’s batik, Venice, Italy, which was the cover image of A Celebration of the World’s Barrier Islands (Columbia University Press, 2003), co-authored by Orrin H. Pilkey and Mary Edna Fraser. Thinking of Venice also causes reflection on our own city, Charleston, whose flooded version was […]
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