Entries from July 2008

GreenFest Savannah 08

Date July 28, 2008

[ September 13, 2008; 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] Sept. 13, 9am - 5pm at Trustees Garden. More information here.

Project DeRenne Public Meeting

Date July 28, 2008

[ August 12, 2008; 6:00 pm; ] Tuesday, Aug. 12, 6 p.m.
Jewish Educational Alliance

For more information, visit the Project DeRenne Web site.

Tony Thomas talks trash

Date July 28, 2008

I was recently watching a long-running reality television series on Comcast cable channel 8. TV Guide described the most recent episode of “Savannah City Council Meeting” as a “regular meeting of Savannah’s mayor and aldermen.” The episode I watched was taped before a live studio audience on July 17.
Near the end, Tony Thomas—who joined […]

The myth of the environag

Date July 21, 2008

Some of my fellow citizens have written letters to the editor of the Savannah Morning News complaining about high gasoline prices. The vast majority of these advocate offshore drilling and/or cracking down on shadowy speculators, who are allegedly driving up the price of oil. The beauty of both these suggestions that they conveniently allow us […]

Broken windows on wheels

Date July 18, 2008

I joined a capacity crowd yesterday at the Savannah Development and Renewal Authority to hear the Historic Savannah Foundation’s Melissa Jest and Clara Fishel of Melaver (and this Web site) speak about the idea that green buildings and historic preservation and not mutually exclusive terms. I’ll probably write alittle about their excellent presentations […]