If we are being honest, the climate crisis is already here. In Charleston, we wade through “sunny day” flooding, watch ghost forests rise from saltwater intrusion and eroding shorelines, and sweat through longer, hotter summers — only to get doused by unprecedented rainfall.

The usual list of solutions, such as solar panels, electric cars, energy conservation (while all good and worthy), feels increasingly mismatched to the scale of the problem we face living here.

A way to lessen impacts to our communities is to have smarter development and conscious redevelopment. It may not be popular, but it’s low hanging fruit. It just requires a mind-shift and political will.

Rewilding the suburbs

Our lawns might just be the most irrigated crop in the country, requiring nearly 9 billion gallons o

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