Guess what? Chad is turning 40 this week! OK, he’s not, if he wants his age known, he’ll tell. Chad’s birthday is an opportunity to consume wisely.
I began with gifts from the boys. We visited The Sea Turtle Rescue Hospital at the Aquarium. We have proudly adopted for Daddy. We […]

There’s been activity over at the LEEP blog! It looks like they are in the middle of a new project called Web of Water. It’s always nice to see other lowcountry green bloggers kicking it. So Give ‘em a look, leave a comment, add them to your reader - all encouragement to share, share, share.

I gotta give a shout out to the good folks over at the Lowcountry Open Land Trust. They recently purchased a 63-acre tract of land on the Ashley River that was destined for development. As a result, LOLT is making sure that a public park is being built instead.
This is a great example of […]

So you have accepted the realities of how global warming is changing our planet and you want to make some changes - great! Where do you start?
Years ago I would search the web for current info, particularly when I was building a house. Yet the information and product knowledge wasn’t always easy to […]

Despite the dreary weather last night, about 25 of us made it to the Charleston Alternative Energy Meetup at Huger’s Restaurant. These monthly meetings are hosted by local greenlebrity Ian Sanchez, and bring together a wide range of people interested in biodiesel, solar, wind, wave, and nuclear energy.
The meeting kicked off with a 30-minute […]

Chad was suffering from a drippy cold, and came home with two boxes of Kleenex. I’m pretty sure I made an audible gasp when I saw those cute designer boxes, but I said nothing to Chad. He had a bad cold after all. I mean, have you ever seen his nose?
I used […]

Lately, we’ve been noticing how little garbage we have around our house. So much so, that I only have to take my big brown trash bin down to the curb every three weeks (still too much IMHO). I used to fill it up to the top every week, but now it takes 3 […]

I was listening to Marketplace on public radio the other day and as part of their sustainability news series, the reporter plugged an interactive assessment tool called “Consumer Consequences” on American Public Media’s website.
Consumer Consequences will tell you how many planets it would take to support your lifestyle on a planetary scale and provide […]

I can’t believe it’s been almost four months since I impetuously decided to give up bottled water. I pledged to go the entire Charleston summer without a single bottle touching my lips, and I have to say it was easier than I thought. It made me realize what we were missing before bottled-water […]

The Sustainable Seafood Initiative is a community-wide effort that has been underway since 2002 to promote the conservation of fishery resources and the use of locally and domestically caught seafood in restaurants.
Sustainable seafood refers to fish that are caught or farmed with consideration for the long-term viability of individual marine species and for the oceans’ […]

Plastic bags consumed this year:
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This morning I blew off sniping photos of poor trash management in favor of playing with my two boys - easy decision. So instead of posting a photo, I thought I’d post this numerical reminder of how blind we are to our consumption. Over 500 billion plastic bags are […]

As I was reading through the Fall issue of Charleston Home, I learned some interesting things to help my green thumb and my green gardening knowledge.
First, it’s not too late to plant some Fall veggies! One of Charleston Home’s “to-dos” for Fall is “Grow a new vegetable.” In the article “Fall Task List,” Sidi Limehouse […]

I just got the September edition of “Water Lines“, Mount Pleasant Waterworks newsletter, and they have a great list of water saving tips that I thought I’d share. And I have to say, I love the fact that an organization that makes money from the amount of water we use is encouraging us to […]

One of the first really green things we did was to reduce our dependence on non-essential paper waste. This included paper towels, cups, plates, toilet paper, tissue, and napkins. Paper accounts for the largest amount of solid waste in landfills, and we wanted to reduce that.
So, Jen picked up 16 cloth napkins and put […]

Quoted from today’s Post & Courier:
Town Council voted Tuesday to negotiate to buy 43 acres on the northern side of Shem Creek from developers who plan a marina and condominiums on the property.
As a resident of Mt. Pleasant, I’m happy to see Town Council actively working to preserve land; especially water front property. Even […]

Bottled water is a huge environmental issue, both in the amount of plastic waste created and the needless carbon produced during the processing and transport stages. This is a topic we’ve covered pretty extensively at Go Green with Chad’s ongoing initiative to avoid bottled water altogether, an effort I think we’ve all adopted. If you […]

I’m a Disney geek. To me, one of the many benefits of living in the Charleston area is the relatively close proximity to Walt Disney World. Only a six hour drive (in the Prius!) and we’re practically in the Magic Kingdom. We try to make it down annually, if the budget allows, and we avoid […]

The Charleston County Council is meeting tonight to review spending proposals from the Green Belt Program. Meetings are held on the second floor of the Lonnie Hamilton, III Public Services Building, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston.
You can read more at: Green Belt Program Proposals

When I wrote about road trip recycling and other things last week, I forgot to mention that I finally purchased some carbon offsets for my vehicle. We’ve made major efforts to green up our summer traveling (recycling, cruise control, slower speeds, tire pressure, filling up at night, etc.), so offsetting our vehicle’s carbon emissions […]

I’m in some sort of green-shock after walking by a couple of Mount Pleasant Town Center stores this weekend whose doors were wide open. It was hot, and Victoria’s Secret and Bath & Body Works were the only stores brazen enough to coax foot traffic off the sidewalk with energy-guzzling cold air. This marketing […]