North Charleston company focusing on local green roof market

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Sure, the piece I'll mention is little more than a glorified press release, but it's still interesting to know that there's a local company specializing in green roofs -- something that we don't hear too much about in Charleston.

At any rate, The Navy Yard Blog has a short piece on Green Roof Outfitters; read it here.

Don't know what the heck a green roof is? Think of it as a roof with plants on it to reduce all sorts of non-green aspects of a roof, particularly all the heat it absorbs requiring more energy to cool a building. 

Here's more info from Wikipedia.