In college I was a member of a student organization that protested the removal of trees on campus. Unfortunately, the protest happened after the trees had already been cut down. Some local folks, however, got it right yesterday by arriving on the scene before the damage was done. Here’s a snip from a Savannah Morning […]

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A special dinner seems appropriate for Easter weekend, or at least to mark the beginning of spring (first day of spring was March 20). I don’t eat ham but I am thinking of other pink foods … there sure is a lot of salmon out there. But is it OK to eat?
In a recent issue […]

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I spent a lot of time in my backyard this weekend and on Saturday I heard a rumble coming down the lane. I looked looked over the back fence to see an battered pick-up truck glide by with its bed full of castaway children’s toys, rusty lawn furniture, old vacuum cleaners and a tangle of […]

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Having attended most of the recent GreenDrinks Savannah events, I can testify that they are useful in making connections, which can lead to beneficial collaborations. More evidence of tangible results produced by GDS can be found in a new social networking site, GreenSpace Savannah. Here’s a snip from the site:
GreenSpace Savannah was inspired by […]

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[ April 7, 2008; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ]
SCAD presents “A Field Guide to Cool Neighborhoods”
The Savannah College of Art and Design presents “A Field Guide to Cool Neighborhoods,” a lecture by Chris Wilson, J. B. Jackson professor of Cultural Landscape Studies, School of Architecture and Planning, University of New Mexico, April 7, 6:30 p.m., River Club, 3 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. […]

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