AltWeeklies Wire
Funeral home offers green alternatives to modern burialsnew
A woman stared into the empty pine coffin, eyeing the rough-hewn shroud inside with apprehension. “Well, it’s got burlap, and that makes me itch,” she said. She immediately realized what an odd thing it was to say about a wrapping for a lifeless body, but she repeated it anyway. "It does. It makes me itch."
Charleston City Paper |
Paul Bowers |
02-27-2012 |
Environment
Tags: green burial
How to Make Your Own Green Cleaning Productsnew
The area under most people's kitchen sinks is reserved for toxic chemicals that can either get you high or kill you. Somehow we've accepted the idea that the stronger the chemical smell, the cleaner our homes are, but anyone who's gotten dizzy off of fumes while scrubbing the tub has realized the irony of the situation: a clean home doesn't necessarily equal a healthy one.
Charleston City Paper |
Erica Jackson Curran |
01-02-2012 |
Environment
Tags: Green Cleaning Products
Paradise Lost? Climate Change and South Carolina Tourismnew
During a week when world leaders assembled in Copenhagen to hash out a way to confront the grim effects of climate change, a "sportsman's roundtable" gathered in Columbia to address the impacts global warming could have closer to home — on South Carolina's natural resources.
Charleston City Paper |
Corey Hutchins |
01-06-2010 |
Environment
Decision on Offshore Drilling in South Carolina Nears the Surfacenew
The U.S. Department of Interior's Minerals Management Service is drafting up a plan that could open the South Carolina coast to offshore oil and natural gas exploration in five years.
Charleston City Paper |
Dan McCue |
09-09-2009 |
Environment
Don't Believe the Hype: Clean Coal Still Pollutesnew
To call today's coal "clean" requires a handful of mind-erasing psycho-somethings and a magic carpet ride to Fairyland. It's true -- the potential to burn coal far cleaner than in decades past is now here. But the best devices are expensive and only in use at a few power plants across the country.
Charleston City Paper |
Stratton Lawrence |
12-10-2008 |
Environment
Here's the Drill: The Sticky Truths About Offshore Oilnew
Approving drilling now would mean that oil reaches our gas tanks in a decade, under the best estimates, and the small quantity relative to global production would do little to alleviate prices. Still, advocates argue, anything that reduces American dependence on foreign oil is worth pursuing. That pursuit becomes sticky, however, when weighed with drilling's definable risks to the environment and public health.
Charleston City Paper |
Stratton Lawrence |
08-13-2008 |
Environment
South Carolina's Other Immigration Problem: Non-Native Plants and Animalsnew
Plant and animal species migrate naturally, and competition is the crux of evolutionary theory. But the globalization of shipping and travel have thrown things off balance, dropping hardy species like the emerging threat of cogongrass into situations where they're able to out-compete everything else for resources.
Charleston City Paper |
Stratton Lawrence |
06-11-2008 |
Environment
Charleston County Poised for 20 More Years of Burning Garbagenew
Two months ago, the incinerator was all but toast. Due to costs and environmental concerns, Charleston County Council voted to discontinue its use when operator Veolia-Montenay's current contract expired, instead diverting future trash to the Bees Ferry and pending Adams Run landfills. But things have changed.
Charleston City Paper |
Stratton Lawrence |
05-14-2008 |
Environment
The Green Office: How to Make Your Workplace More Environmentally Friendlynew
Considering that a third of our daily lives is likely spent in an office, it's important that those hours are healthy ones, and of course, a healthy office is also a more environmentally friendly workplace.
Charleston City Paper |
Stratton Lawrence |
04-16-2008 |
Environment
The Dirt on Dirtnew
The new dawn of chemical farming, Superfund townhomes, and Wal-Mart wetlands.
Charleston City Paper |
Stratton Lawrence |
04-02-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Should We be Taxed for Eating Animals?new
Outside of nearly every presidential rally and campaign stop across South Carolina, you could find members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) dressed in bright pink pig costumes, handing out buttons and literature emblazoned with the slogan "Stop Global Warming: Tax Meat."
Charleston City Paper |
Stratton Lawrence |
02-07-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Coal is Cheap and Abundant, but Can it Really Be Clean?new
South Carolina is a battleground in the debate over America's coal future.
Charleston City Paper |
Stratton Lawrence |
12-26-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Change in the Weathernew
Climate change is not just for environmentalists any more.
Charleston City Paper |
Will Moredock |
12-05-2007 |
Environment
Tags: Kyoto, environment
Charleston's Dirty Little Secretnew
Don't breathe deep -- there are killers in our air.
Charleston City Paper |
Stratton Lawrence |
11-28-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Power Co. Claims Green Future, but Wants New Coal Plantnew
Coal-fired power plants are the top culprits among greenhouse gas emitters. It's estimated that Santee Cooper's proposed plant would spew 8.7 million tons of carbon dioxide and 138 pounds of mercury into the air each year.
Charleston City Paper |
Stratton Lawrence |
10-31-2007 |
Environment
