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GREEN TIP!
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Reasons to shop at your local Farmer's Market
1) Most locally grown food is more nutritious beacuse food shipped long distances can lose nutrients over time
2) Purchases will aid the local economy and
3) Buying locally grown foods helps preserve open, rural landscape.
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Charleston Farmer's Market
April 13 - December 21, 2013
Saturdays 8:00am - 2:00pm
Click here to find other area farmer's markets.
Also check out
Community Supported Agriculture! Now is the time for fall crops from local farms.
Visit Lowcountry Local First's website to find out more!
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March 1, 2013 - February 28, 2014
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Year 3 Snapshot
84 Businesses Signed up
52 Baselines Submitted
8-81 Score Range
8 million total sq ft
250 to 3.5 million sq ft
Alcoa
Art Institute of Charleston
Barefoot Yoga Studio, LLC
BCD COG
Beads & Brushstrokes
BeSpoke
Blackbaud
Boeing
CarePro Health Services
Carolina Green Fair/Two Fish Enterprises
Charleston County Aviation Authority
Charleston County Park & Recreation Commission Headquarters
Charleston County Parks Caw Caw Interpretive Center
Charleston County School-75 Calhoun St.
Charleston ENT Associates, LLC
Charleston Water System
Circular Congregational Church
City of Charleston City Hall
City of Charleston Third Floor
Coastal Coffee Roasters, Inc.
Daniel Island Academy
DHEC-OCRM and EQC
Duvall Events
EcoFitness and Blue Turtle Yoga
Fast and French
Francis Marion Hotel
Harry Barker, Inc
Hawthorn Suites
Heritage Trust Federal Credit Union
Holiday Inn Express Mt Pleasant
ICF, International Home Office
IFA-Rotorion
Johnson Controls
Kiawah Island Community Association - Sandcastle
Latto and Associates
Liollio Architecture
Lulan Artisans
Lowcountry Local First
MUSC Dental College
Natural Designs Woodturning, LLC
Notso Hostel
Robert Bosch LLC
Selecthealth of SC
SC State Ports Authority-Main Office
Sodexo
South Carolina Aquarium
SCE&G
Sprout
The Sustainability Institute - 113 Calhoun
The Sustainability Institute - GreenHouse
Total Life Care
Wain Green Restoration Furniture
Waste Services
This challenge year is moving right along!
There is no deadline but submit your scorecard to take advantage of a full year of improvement!
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Exploring the Lowcountry
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Sierra Club Outings
ACE Basin Ashepoo River Tour
Call Starr Hazard 843-881-8902
Sunday, November 3
Ace Basin Canoe/Kayak Trip
Call Bill Turner at 571-3503
Click here for more on outings.
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Environmental Leadership Forum
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SC Department of Health and Environmental Control along with the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency are pleased to announce an opportunity
to apply for the South Carolina Environmental Leadership Forum.
For more details on the Forum, click here or view the attached flyer below. The deadline for application is Monday, October 14, 2013
For additional information, please contact Karen Sprayberry at (803) 898-1249 or spraybkj@dhec.sc.gov.
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Free Level 3 Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Available
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If you have a location close to one of our interstates or airports where you would like to install a Level 3 Charger, have the funding for installation costs, and can install by December 31, 2013, please contact Jenn at jtaraskiewicz@energy.sc.gov or 803-737-8037 to start the application process and set up a tour of the potential Level 3 site locations with the equipment donor.
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Grant Opportunity
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The Department of Energy has awarded funding to the SC Energy Office (SCEO) to fund up to seven high-impact educational or demonstration projects in the areas of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and alternative fuels.
The maximum award value is $5,000.
Applications due:
October 11,2013
For more information: Click here
To apply: click here
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Buy a Coffee and Borrow a Bike for the Day!
A group of cafes in Brno, Czech Republic have come together to offer customers free biking through their new bike-share scheme. When a customer goes in to buy a drink, they put down a deposit and are given a lock and a folding bike. They will then be able to use the bike for the day and return it to any of the participating centers around the city.
Brno's business bike-sharing is a small operation, but is unique and is inspiring for other businesses and cities around the world.
To read the full article by Feargus O'Sullivan, click here
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Oyster Season is Here and so is
Shell Recycling
Back when South Carolina's last oyster cannery closed in 1986, instead of being planted back into the oyster beds, oyster shells were widely dispersed and many would end up in landfills after backyard oyster roasts.
The state recognized that without planted shells, there can be no more oysters. To stop this from occurring and to preserve the inshore marine habitat, the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) started its own oyster seed planting program in the 1980's, and in 2000 initiated a recycling program to address the shortage of shells.
The growth of oyster shell recycling awareness has allowed the DNR to reduce its dependence of out-of-state vendors and long-range transport.
 Since the start of the DNR's recycling program:
192,618 bushels of shell have been recycled and
408,898 bushels have been planted on shellfish grounds.
There are now
27
oyster recycling drop-off points in S.C.
and
74 state and public shellfish grounds where recreational harvesting in allowed.
To read the full article from RecyclonomicSC, click here
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Topic: Planting Fall/Winter Trees
- Lunch & Learn - Thursday, 12:00-1:00 pm
- Work & Learns on Thursday, 4:00-5:00 pm
- Work and Learn with kid-friendly activities -1st and 3rd Saturdays of the month, 9:00-11:00 am
Bring a plastic bag and take home some fresh produce in return for your work efforts on the Farm or help gather for donations on certain days. Please wear closed toe shoes. No experience or prior knowledge necessary. Visit their website www.musc.edu/urbanfarm to learn more and to sign up for their informative e-letters.
Food Day: October 24th:
Nationwide celebration and a movement for healthy, affordable, and sustainable food.
Activities throughout the day at MUSC Urban Farm
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Park Circle Films
Drop City Film Screening
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Saturday, October 12
7 pm
Olde Village Community Building
4820 Jenkins Ave, North Charleston
Click here for a map
$5 General Admission
$2 Film Society Members
Click here for more info about Park City Films
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DROP CITY is a story of whimsical innovation and the drive to create a new civilization on the scrapheap of a wasteful society. Often cited as the first rural commune of the 1960's, Drop City was an experimental community on the plains of Southern Colorado that blended practices of art, architecture, and resourceful living in ways that came to define a global counterculture.
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Book Discussion with League of Women Voters
The Ominvore's Dilemma
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Thursday, October 17
Grow Food Carolina
990 Morrison Drive
$12 including dinner provided by VERDE
Click here for more info and to register by October 15. 
What Should We Have For Dinner?
"The surprising answers Pollan offers to the simple question posed by this book have profound political, economic, psychological, and even moral implications for all of us. Beautifully written and thrillingly argued, The Omnivore's Dilemma promises to change the way we think about the politics and pleasure of eating." Click here to read more.
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Energy Efficiency Jobs Network (EEJN) Trainings
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Beginning on October 14th in Charleston, the Energy Efficiency Jobs Network will be providing specialized training for education and business development services in the energy efficiency industry.
For more information about EEJN, click here
For the full list of scheduled training opportunities, click here
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The South Carolina Alternative Fueled Vehicle Roadshow
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Wednesday, October 30th
1pm-4pm
North Charleston Coliseum - Club North & North Plaza
The Palmetto State Clean Fuels and the South Carolina Clean Energy Business Association's half day event will look at transportation solutions using natural gas, propane, biofuels and electric-vehicles.
To learn more about the event and reasons to attend, click here.
GBC Training Point Offered!
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Sierra Club Robert Lunz Group presents
The New Environmentalism: Ecology, Health and Democracy
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Thursday, November 7
7 pm
Dana Beach, Exec. Director of the Coastal Conservation League
MUSC Baruch Auditorium
284 Calhoun Street
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College of Charleston's Halsey Institute
GMO OMG Film Screening and Q&A
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Thursday, November 21
7 pm
Recital Hall
Simons Center for Fine Arts
54 St. Philip Street
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GMO OMG - Official Trailer
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GMO OMG explores the systematic corporate takeover and potential loss of humanity's most precious and ancient inheritance: seeds. Director Jeremy Seifert investigates how loss of seed diversity and corresponding laboratory assisted genetic alteration of food affects his young children, the health of our planet, and freedom of choice everywhere.
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November 15, 2013
 America Recycles Day is a national initiative through Keep America Beautiful (KAB). A day to raise awareness about the value of reducing, reusing and recycling - every day - all throughout the year. Local organizers click here to schedule events and gain access to valuable resources to help plan, promote and host events (including posters, activity ideas, and media tools).
Are you looking for a fun and creative way to increase school recycling participation in your community? Keep America Beautiful's, third annual, "Recycle-Bowl,
 " is a comprehensive nationwide recycling competition for elementary, middle and high-school students. Open to all schools, the incentive-based recycling competition kicks off again this October and registration is now open on the Recycle-Bowl website at http://recycle-bowl.org. The first 1,000 schools to register will receive a Recycle-Bowl coordinator toolkit. |
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