Carrotmob is a way for anyone to make a real difference with the environment by buying ordinary things in a targeted way. Carrotmob organizes people who care about the environment to use their buying power to negotiate with businesses. Watch the video here and you will get the idea http://vimeo.com/925729 So what we are doing in Charleston is this: we are contacting about 30 Downtown

By Jenny Munro The Greenville News Monday, February 23, 2009 GREENVILLE — BMW Manufacturing Co. is considering adding another "green" source of energy at its plant. The Greer plant, which gets well over half of the energy needed to generate electricity from methane gas at a landfill nine miles away, is partnering with Gold Ring Power LLC to study the feasibility of using wind

Imagine power plants that don't have carbon dioxide gases and other emissions pouring out of their smoke stacks, but instead capture those emissions and store them underground, where conceivably they would remain – monitored and managed.It's been a dream of environmentalists for years and more recently for big power companies and utilities since climate change first began to emerge as an issue

A big chunk of the nearly $900 billion economic rescue package may go to alternative energy and environmental projects. Who will benefit, and is it enough? Read more...

(image and commentary courtesy of Brendan Borrell and slate.com)If, like me, you have always wanted to get a carved, elephant-ivory snuff box for that special someone, this holiday season may well be your last opportunity. The online auction site eBay announced on Oct. 20 that it would ban nearly all ivory sales on its auction sites effective Jan. 1. Last month, the company was embarrassed by the

A few days ago, we conducted an exclusive email interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, chief medical correspondent at CNN. Dr. Gupta, a practicing neurosurgeon and award-winning journalist, has traveled around the world to deliver live reports from the sites of natural disasters and combat zones, and has produced special reports dedicated to helping improve public health and spreading awareness of

Please help us out here in Charleston with growing our Green Drinks chapter by voting us a Best of Charleston pick...it takes just a minute to register and besides, the City Paper is a great alternative weekly!Please consider us for Question #25. We appreciate your support!

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This Christmas I learned for the first time about Nothing But Nets, a not-for-profit that distributes insecticide nets throughout Africa, assisting in the prevention of malaria. They have been widely mentioned in Sports Illustrated as well as on Oprah, but I thought it was worth sharing. Please visit them online by clicking here...

The Francis Street Lofts are located at 2 Francis Street, the site of a circa 1937 Baptist church. The building has been meticulously restored into twelve single level and multi-level lofts. The Francis Street Lofts present a unique opportunity to preserve an old church building by converting it into residential lofts in an area that is quickly becoming part of the urban core of the Peninsula of

(article and images courtesy of the New York Times)

In hopes of slowing global warming and creating “green jobs,” Congress and the incoming administration may soon impose a mandate that the nation get 10 or 15 percent of its electricity from renewable sources within a few years.

Yet the experience of states that have adopted similar goals suggests that passing that requirement could be a lot

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Our 2nd Annual Green Drinks Holiday Party begins around 7PM this Friday, December 5th. It will go for several hours. Join us for bluegrass, a free high gravity beer tasting, delicious food, 'A Why You Should Get