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Friday, November 14th, 2008As I was walking with BD and RY down King on the way to our regular Friday lunch spot, we hit the Calhoun/King Street intersection that seems to consistently have 20mph winds rocketing down the street towards the water. In light of Santee Cooper’s recent announcement that they will begin installing testing stations for [...]
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Prescott Oil Loves The Earth
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008The Colbert Report makes an interesting point about oil companies and their green advertising campaigns…best of all is special message from Prescott Oil (starts at the 1:15 mark).
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Just Add Water
Friday, September 19th, 2008Joined the Park(ing) Day gang this morning to help set up the mini parks downtown by Charleston’s Market.. In just an hour things transformed from a boring slab of asphalt to an urban oasis featuring a music stage, sunflower garden, farmer’s market, mini dog park (for mini dogs), green car and ping pong park. Here’s [...]
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Oak Terrace Preserve Activity
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008Keep up on all the latest activities at Oak Terrace Preserve through their new blog. Oak Terrace is a new green-design community coming to life in the Park Circle area of North Charleston. Hundreds of the grand oak trees on the site have been protected. Networks of parks, bioswales and backyard rain gardens will control [...]
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Biking The Holy City
Friday, July 11th, 2008Nice to see the City Paper’s cover story this week on bicycle commuting in Charleston. It includes a cover photo of David Lee and his shiny grill, some perspective from friend Tom Bradford at Charleston Moves and some great quotes from friend/client/advocate/bikelawyer Peter Wilborn from SC Bike Law. Thanks to all (including the City Paper) [...]
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Noisette a Top 10 Neighborhood
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008Congrats to everyone involved with the Noisette community project for its ranking as one of Cottage Living magazine’s top 10 neighborhoods in the US. From the main development at Noisette and the Navy Yard, to the neighborhood projects at Mixson and Oak Terrace Preserve, to the renewal underway along East Montague…the vision that was once [...]
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Carbon-Neutral Air Travel With Derrie-Air
Friday, June 6th, 2008It was only a matter of time until someone stepped up and offered a guilt-free way to fly. A new airline called Derrie-Air bills itself as the “world’s only carbon-neutral luxury airline.”
To quote from the site:
Derrie-Air will be the only airline that plants trees to offset every pound of carbon that our planes release into [...]
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Bike Share System
Friday, May 30th, 2008Came across this nice bike sharing system concept from Continuum. It’s an unmanned, self-service kiosk that allows you to swipe a public transit smart card and grab a bike. It’s nice and urban compact….14 bicycles racked on the station occupy the same amount of space as a parking space for one car. And solar energy [...]
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There’s No “My” In “We”
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008It’s about time that all the internet-related “my” hype dies. Isn’t the “Me Decade” supposed to be over? Wasn’t that the 80s or 90s? Together, WE can end the MYbrandname.com trend. It’s not really just your brand anyway, is it?
So, here’s to more “we” in our lives. We = community, connections, social networks, etc. [...]
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Morning Commute in Charleston
Friday, March 21st, 2008Being the first day of Spring…and such a nice day at that…decided to share the joy the daily pedal to work. Very lucky to be able to ride back and forth in this amazing downtown. Now if we could get some bike lanes, please. You will notice that one segment along East Bay shows the [...]
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