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The Lunz GroupRepresenting Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton and Dorchester Counties in South Carolina |
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Monthly Membership Meeting |
Membership meetings occurr at 7:00pm on the first Thursday of each month at Baruch Auditorium, Calhoun Street, downtown Charleston. (Part of the MUSC campus) Click here for directions.Click here for a map. Folks, Baruch Auditorium is being renovated so we have to meet elsewhere for the JUNE 2008 membership meeting.
Here's a url for an MUSC campus map.
http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/oipa/planning/gettingaround/campusmap.pdf
Directions To This Temporary Location: If you stand facing the doors to Baruch Auditorium, turn right, walk half a block to Ashley Ave and turn left. Walk past Sabin Street on your left, then past the Childrens Hospital and the Storm Eye Institute. Walk across the first and second “Horseshoe" entrances. Then walk up to the end of the Basic Science Building. Enter the foyer and enter the auditorium on the left or the right. This is about a 5-minute walk from the Baruch Auditorium entrance.
Parking:
1) Park where you usually do near Baruch and follow the directions above to the Basic Sciences Building.
2) There is limited parking in the Horseshoe, along Ashley Avenue and along Bee St.
3) Park in the “G-lot”. There are more spaces but you may be charged.
4) Ride your bike or walk from farther away.
For our June program we are pleased to have Ken Midkiff, author of NOT A DROP TO DRINK: America's Water Crisis (and What You Can Do), which includes a forward by Robert F. Kennedy. He will discuss his new book, which includes information about our lowcountry waters. He has prepared slides relevant to our local water issues based on information from the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources.
“In just a few short decades, we have depleted our water supply. In the eastern states, which once had an abundance of water, bitter disputes and legal battles have become commonplace over water shortages caused by over-appropriation. In the western states, where water has always been in short supply, population growth in dry areas has led to water shortages that threaten to severely restrict or perhaps even bar further growth.”
A former director of the Missouri Chapter of the Sierra Club, Midkiff currently serves on the Board of Directors of Concerned Citizens for Clean Water and as co-chair of the National Clean Water Network, and is the former Director of the Sierra Club Clean Water Campaign. He has been interviewed by the New York Times, Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and NPR’s All Things Considered and Morning Edition. As a leading authority on the American water crisis, Midkiff has consulted with numerous federal and state government organizations including the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. His first book was The Meat You Eat: How Corporate Farming Has Endangered America’s Food Supply. Midkiff lives in Colombia, Missouri but visits the Lowcountry yearly during Spoleto.
If you weren't is such a hurry the mountains could stay mountains!
Free Light Bulbs! Have you gotten on the compact fluorescent light bulb bandwagon yet? Pick up a free bulb at the June membership meeting, courtesy of Santee-Cooper Electric. If every American home replaced just one bulb with a compact fluorescent light bulb, we would save enough energy to light more than 2.5 million homes for a year and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of nearly 800,000 cars. Learn more about Santee- Cooper Electric and responsible energy use at http://www.santeecooper.com.
(Baruch Auditorium on MUSC campus at 284 Calhoun St)
