Charleston SC Continues to Go Green

This a great article on how Charleston, SC continues to go green.  They’re are putting plans in place to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. This article comes from www.charleston.net by David Slade.

A Boston company that helped New York City develop a plan to address climate change has been hired for similar work in Charleston.

At Mayor Joe Riley’s direction, Charleston has been working on a plan for local action to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions blamed for climate change, and now the Coastal Conservation League has agreed to pay as much as $660,000 to hire the national consulting firm Serrafix to further that effort.

“We proposed doing it in Charleston because Charleston is interested in doing it, and it’s a scale we can deal with,” said Megan Desrosiers of the Coastal Conservation League. “The goal of this is to capture what is lost, and turn it into something that can stimulate the economy.”

In other words, instead of throwing money away on energy that’s wasted because of factors such as poor insulation or inefficient air-conditioning systems, spend that money on job-creating efficiency improvements that reduce energy needs and energy costs.

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