General Meetings

NEXT GENERAL MEETING

Join the Sun City Environmental Club on Monday March 16th in the Lakehouse Ballroom to hear Tim Evans, Director of Land Conservation at SC Audubon.  He will be talking about Bottomland Hardwood forests, like longleaf pine, that once covered vast acreages of the Atlantic Coastal Plain and Mississippi Alluvial Valley.  Some 24 million acres were reduced to 4 million as a direct result of human settlement and clearing for agriculture, as well as continued draining and filling for development.  He will also address federal regulations like "No Net Loss" and programs like Wetlands Mitigation, noting we have better tools and incentives for protection and restoration than ever before.

Tim joined the staff of Audubon South Carolina in 2018, having spent the previous 24 years as a Forester and Biologist for Anderson-Tully Company in the Bottomland Hardwood Forests of the Mississippi Alluvial Valley. Tim also worked as a wildlife biologist for North Carolina State Ag Extension and the Tennessee Valley Authority. He is a native of Pine Bluff, Arkansas and a graduate of both the University of Arkansas at Monticello and Clemson University where he received a Master of Science in Forest Resources.  Tim is a TWS Certified Wildlife Biologist, a SC Certified Prescribed Fire Manager, and a Registered Licensed Forester in both MS and SC.  He lives in the Dale community of North Beaufort County with his wife MaryBeth a yellow Lab named Doc and a cat named Piggy.

The meeting starts at 7:00 PM, but arrive early to meet our Board of Directors and Teams. Together, we can enhance our little corner of the Earth!

Nuclear Power and Natural Gas Peaker Plants are the most expensive form of generation. The last Solar towers have been decommissioned due to their expense.

Utility-scale solar, which refers to large solar power plants, can produce electricity at costs as low as 2.4¢/kWh and just under 4¢/kWh and onshore wind is on par with solar while offshore wind is a little more expensive but is close to large populations centers along the Atlantic Coast has the most expensive fossil fuel plants due to distance for fossil fuels to be either shipped via train or pipeline from where they are mined or extracted and refined.