A peaceful, beautiful walk on the beach can be tainted when a plastic bottle or bag washes up and touches your toes. Just the other weekend, I witnessed pieces of candy wrappers and plastic soda bottles dancing in the waves in Myrtle Beach. It was disgusting. I know that it is tourist season, but there is no excuse for trash [...]

What runs through your mind when you hear the word fracking? I bet it has nothing to do with natural gas. Fracking, better known as Hydraulic Fracturing, is the process of extracting natural gas from the ground. This method of gas drilling blasts a mixture of water and chemicals into the ground, 8,000 feet down. The fracking itself is like [...]

The Waccamaw RIVERKEEPER Program of the Winyah Rivers Foundation has launched an Adopt-a-Landing program as an effort to cleanup and promote stewardship of public boat landings in Horry and Georgetown counties. There have been 19 boat landings identified for the program, nine of which are already adopted. Groups that have offered to adopt a boat landing include Wildlife Action, Keep [...]

We are saturated with terms like, sustainability, climate change, global warming, fracking, etc. It’s overwhelming when you don’t know how you can help make a difference in your own life. So how does the average person add a little green into their life? We all have responsibilities, work, dinners, kids, errands, chores, classes, etc. Some people think that going green takes [...]

I have been playing with Twitter a lot recently and found it to be a wealth of information and randomness. While, searching through Followers and Tweets, I found an amazing green company that recycles something close to every woman’s heart, a bra. According to their current sponsoring company, Soma Intimates, bras are “the most needed and the least donated.” Of [...]

So the other day I heard a statement from a colleague, “organic is a loaded term.”  It was an interesting perspective from someone who works in the agriculture industry. He said that just because it is labeled as ‘organic’ doesn’t necessarilymean it’s a better choice. It made me wonder more. Has the word organic been lost in translation? What truly defines [...]

I have decided that my favorite second-hand store is the Sunshine Shoppe in Chesterfield, SC. This is my second visit and it’s a hoot every time! The ladies holler (yes, a Southern term) to each other across the store about everything – food, directions, clothing and gossip. I simply enjoy the entertainment of the shopping experience. This was a solo [...]