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 tactic [...]

Fields to Families announced today that its volunteers have coordinated the distribution of 19,383 pounds of fresh produce to recipient nonprofit agencies since the beginning of the year! And when more than 250,000 Lowcountry residents have a high risk of going hungry—with one of every four children at risk for hunger and malnutrition—every pound counts. [...]

Looks like Jennifer and The Little Green Bag Project team have been busy. They’ve got two events lined up in the coming weeks, and a stack of bags to release into the wild. Spread the word, grab a bag, and support this important project. July 22nd, 3-6 p.m. – Juanita Greenbergs will be hosting a [...]

Jen heads over to Whole Foods once a week to pick up some goodies for our vegetarian diets. I’ve noticed that nearly all of the food containers used in their deli and other areas are made from plastic #5, which is almost universally non-recyclable. I wondered why a company with such a green focus would [...]

Just the other day, I blogged about how the Mount Pleasant town council is grumpy about raising our stormwater fees in order to monitor pollutants. The increase is in response to a federally mandated program geared at protecting our environment and educating the public on how runoff from rainwater can contaminate our waterways. The town [...]

Ahh, serendipity. I was about to blog about how the Mt. Pleasant Stormwater Utility Program just sent around a newsletter with their annual bill (Check out the previous years). It’s a fine little doc, and has important info about keeping pollutants out of the storm drains, yadda yadda yadda. Then today I read in the [...]

I’ve been working on the Recycling Map lately, and the project has taken me out to some of the drop sites. These unstaffed bins, administered by Charleston County Solid Waste, often take a beating. People drop off unwanted items like tires, cinder blocks, wood, and everyday trash. This is not good. When things get real [...]

South Carolina has the second highest percentage of hungry people in the nation, yet 27 percent of all food produced is thrown away. It is the mission of the recently formed nonprofit organization Fields To Families to reduce that waste by coordinating distribution of surplus produce from local gardens and farms to local soup kitchens, [...]

Strawberries have always been a guilty pleasure because they’re often shipped in from distant places like Guatemala, California, and occasionally Saturn. Buying produce out of season usually means a hefty carbon footprint because those little delectables are shipped here in the dead of Winter. But not here in Charleston during April and May. Take a [...]

Here’s another great example of civic action making a difference.  The Mount Pleasant Pride Committee works to purge the East Cooper area of litter by cleaning up intersections, teaching people, and encouraging local businesses to provide outdoor trash receptacles. PRIDE will be cleaning up the intersection of Long Point Road and I-526 on May 19, [...]