Often it’s not until houses and businesses

Often it’s not until houses and businesses are built that we realize their environmental impact. But soon environmental researchers and developers will have data that can be used to evaluate and encourage environmentally sustainable building practices.

Remote data sensors and transmitters are being installed in coastal watersheds as part of Clemson’s Program of Integrated Study for Coastal Environmental Sustainability (PISCES). The monitoring system will provide real-time data from water measurement equipment housed on the Bannockburn Plantation in Georgetown County, S.C.

The property is slated for future development. Owner Lucille Pate is partnering with Clemson researchers to understand and minimize the impacts of development on the environment. Data collection will begin before construction to track the impact before, during and after development.

So I can only thank the lord for giving me this once in a lifetime opportunity, a FREEDOM to ask myself what I want to do with the rest of my life. To stop and think WHAT I REALLY WANT TO DO!


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So the mountains of perfectly good materials that had been reduced to muck at Fresh Kills made no sense to me. It felt terribly wrong. Who set up this system? How could those who knew about it allow it to continue? I didn't understand it, but I vowed to figure it out. After two decades of sleuthing, when I'd figured it out, I called it the Story of Stuff.


The monitoring system was designed by scientists from the Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science, Clemson’s department of forestry and natural resources and the agricultural and biological engineering department. In addition to scientific research, the program will provide an educational resource for natural resources and the environment, land-use change and sustainable development.