From four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist comes an investigation into our rapidly warming world and how these climate shifts are affecting the Charleston shoreline. No strangers to copious amounts of water in the Lowcountry, or stiflingly high temperatures, Charlestonians are eager to hear how these two occurrences are affecting our city in the long term. Tony Bartelme’s perspective: one day, Charleston will be under water. Veteran journalist of The Post and Courier, Tony Bartelme takes the stage to share the reality of how our changing global climate will impact the Lowcountry through his latest book, a collection of climate stories from around the globe and how we are all battling climate change together. To expand and shape the conversation, Bartelme will be joined by Coastal Conservation League Executive Director, Faith River James.
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About the Book
Tony Bartelme is one of the most accomplished local journalists working today, a four-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize who has a three-decade record with The Post and Courier of uncovering major stories that are often hiding in plain sight. In his latest release, Tony Bartelme brings together his ground-breaking climate stories, from how melting ice in Greenland directly affects Charleston’s flooding to a scientist’s devotion to a rare marsh-dwelling bird. Through a lens trained on impacts in the Lowcountry, Bartelme’s stories take readers to New Orleans, the Sahara Desert and into the Gulf Stream. Each story has one thing in common: an aha moment that changes how readers view their rapidly changing world. Together, the stories in his latest book have won more than fourteen national journalism awards.
About the Author
Tony Bartelme, a four-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, is a senior projects reporter for The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina. Over the past 30 years, his investigative work has exposed government corruption and explored diverse issues ranging from changes in ocean plankton to the global shortage of doctors. He has received the highest honors in journalism, including recent awards from the Gerald Loeb Foundation, Scripps Howard Foundation, Knight Science Journalism Program at M.I.T., American Geophysical Union, AAAS and Sigma Delta Chi. The S.C. Press Association has twice named him the state’s “Journalist of the Year.” In 2021, Columbia Journalism School awarded him the John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism, which recognizes a journalist for cumulative achievements. Tony is the author or co-author of several books, including A Surgeon in the Village: An American Doctor Teaches Brain Surgery in Africa. He was awarded a Harvard Nieman Fellowship in 2010 and is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
About Faith River James
Faith is a Mount Pleasant native who grew up in the historic Four Mile community East of the Cooper River. She has felt a connection to the landscape of the Lowcountry all her life, and witnessed firsthand the change that unbridled growth and development can have on our beloved environment. She is consistently reminded of how we are all interconnected and dependent on this environment and how protecting and conserving these resources can positively impact us all. She has devoted her energy, expertise, and legal acumen to influence this conservation in pragmatic and entrepreneurial ways.
Faith is a graduate of the Porter-Gaud School in Charleston, Dartmouth College, and Harvard Law School. Following schooling, she launched a legal career in Washington, D.C. Within four years, she was negotiating the federal budget as senior counsel to the House Majority Leader of the Congress. Soon after, she returned to South Carolina and served as Executive Director of the South Carolina Bar Foundation. There, she was fortunate to be able to work in partnership with the Coastal Community Foundation to launch the Heirs’ Property Preservation Project, an issue that remains near and dear to her heart. Later, her law teaching career led her to focus on property and environmental issues at Vermont Law School and Elon University School of Law, where she served as Associate Dean of experiential learning and leadership. At Elon, she launched a Law and Leadership program, helped mount the Elon Law Environmental Law Society, and spearheaded a joint JD/Master of Science in Environmental Law and Policy program with Vermont Law.
Faith returned home to the Lowcountry in 2018 to serve as the Assistant Provost for Leadership and Chair of the Department of Leadership Studies at The Citadel, where she taught the next generation of our state’s leaders.
Throughout her work and life, Faith has always prioritized the conservation of natural resources, protecting our rural landscapes, and preserving communities, and is grateful to have the opportunity to do so in the role of Executive Director of the Coastal Conservation League. Faith has served as Executive Director since August 2022.
