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Today’s audio comes from the recent ‘Investing in Sustainability Webinar Series’ hosted by The Nature Conversancy and Sustain SC, which was funded by the Bridgestone Americas Trust Fund.Mike Switzer was the moderator for this event and today’s excerpt comes from his conversation with Anna DeLage, recycling market development manager (Recycling in SC) for the South Carolina Department of Commerce.

Today’s audio comes from the recent ‘Investing in Sustainability Webinar Series’ hosted by The Nature Conversancy and Sustain SC, which was funded by the Bridgestone Americas Trust Fund.Mike Switzer was the moderator for this event and today’s excerpt comes from his conversation with Anna DeLage, recycling market development manager (Recycling in SC) for the South Carolina Department of Commerce.

Aside from the eastern ratsnake, the other black snake common to South Carolina is the southern black racer.

A railroad worm is a larva, or larviform, female adult of a beetle of the genus Phrixothrix in the family Phengodidae, characterized by the possession of two different colors of bioluminescence. It has the appearance of a caterpillar. The eleven pairs of luminescent organs on their second thoracic segment through their ninth abdominal segment can glow yellowish-green, while the pair on their head can glow red;[1] this is due to different luciferases in their bodies, as the reaction substrate, called luciferin, is the same.

It was Beethoven who liberated the timpani from the trumpets, expanding their role and the range of notes they played, and even writing solo passages for them.

If you see a timpanist bending over his instrument during a concert with his ear close to the drumheads, it’s because timpanists often have to tune their drums to different pitches while everybody else is playing.

If you see a timpanist bending over his instrument during a concert with his ear close to the drumheads, it’s because timpanists often have to tune their drums to different pitches while everybody else is playing.

Ravel borrowed dance rhythms from Spain, from Austria, and from America, by way of jazz.

Although they had similar training and came under many of the same influences, Debussy's and Ravel's musical styles and techniques were really quite different.