Hey, GreenOne, a solar company is going to do a seminar at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center, South Carolina's only downtown convention center (We didn't want our convention center to create sprawl). I thought you might be interested. Columbia is striving to be green.
Also, there are lots of hiking trails, paved and unpaved, around the Columbia area. The Palmetto Trail runs through the heart of downtown. Columbia is within easy and quick driving distance to all of the state's hiking and biking trails. The Three Rivers Greenway is an urban stretch of trails along the banks of the Congaree and Broad Rivers, and the banks of the Saluda River have trails, too.
I'm not sure about private boat docks. You could google Lake Murray.
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