Two comments in the Savannah Morning News’ Vox Populi section caught my eye this morning. The emphasis in each is mine.
“Close off the streets for the kids to play basketball? My neighborhood looks like a dump after these kids play. Their language from the youngest to the oldest comes from the dump as well. […]

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The Savannah College of Art and Design’s Sustainability and Eco Practices Council was featured in the Jan. 10 issue of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education bulletin. The AASHE bulletin linked to a story in The Chronicle, the faculty/staff newspaper at SCAD. Here’s a snip from “SCAD forms eco practices council,” […]

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[ January 31, 2008; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] The Savannah College of Art and Design’s Council on Sustainability and Eco-Practices presents a screening of “The 11th Hour” on Thursday, Jan. 31 at 6 p.m. in Trustees Theater. This event is free and open to the public.

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If you regularly operate a bicycle in Savannah, your friends and relatives will worry about you. Yesterday I was on the Southside when my cell phone vibrated. The caller said she saw police cars on Lincoln Street and a cyclist on the ground. She wanted to make sure it wasn’t me.
This morning I was alerted […]

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Thanks to everyone who sent me links to this story about the Chinese plastic bag ban. In a coastal area like ours, we should be especially emphatic about saying “do not want” to these things. They are a scourge on our land and water.
Because of their ubiquity, plastic bags become invisible to us. I’ve […]

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