glassy little baby
Warning: This story will make you feel something. Cancer. See? It did it already. They’re called votives. It takes four people in a team of seventy about ten minutes to make a single one. For every one sold, a charity benefits. And one of those beneficiaries is Roper St. Francis. glassybaby started in 2003 when [...]
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Trash-Talker
Spend a morning riding shotgun in Food Waste Disposal (FWD) founder Wayne Koeckeritz’s steed (in this case, a rear-loading garbage truck), and chances are, you’ll have a whole different definition of “waste” when it comes to food. In fact, you might even find yourself jonesin’ for a compost pile of your own. (Yes, you can [...]
Local Lender, With Turntables
Meet the Clark Kent of Charleston. By day, Josh Silverman appears to be your average financial advisor in a buttoned-down shirt and loafers. But then the sun goes down and he slips into the nearest telephone booth, emerging as a rocking DJ off to save the city, one rhythmically-challenged dancer at a time. One half of [...]
Fly Free
Charleston is no stranger to the words “progressive” and “underground.” We’ve high-brow dinner parties held in secret, grungy warehouses. Late night art shows where both titans and newbies mingle over cans of PBR. And one very edgy fly fishing community that’s changing the way fishermen dress and give back. Presenting FreeFly, an environmentally savvy line [...]
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