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• 01.19.12
  Savannah Riverkeeper hosts Roast on the River event Jan. 20 Advocacy, Conservation, Water | (0)

  The Savannah Riverkeeper's Third Annual Roast on the River event is scheduled for Friday, Jan. 20 and organizers sent out a "last chance to register" announcement this morning. Held at Hogan's Marina on Wilmington Island, the event begins at 6:30 p.m. and features drinks, oysters, Low Country Boil and a silent auction. Tickets may be purchased through the SRK website.
• 01.18.12
  On bicycles and employment Advocacy, Business, Economics, Land Use, Neighborhoods, Planning, Public Space, Transportation | (0)

  City of Savannah Mobility and Parking Director Sean Brandon has a guest post at the Creative Coast blog this morning, which makes important points about poverty, employment, planning and creative communities: "I have found repeatedly that the person that takes their bicycle on an inhospitable street is trying to do the very thing that many complain those in poverty don’t do: get to and from their job." You can read the whole post here.
• 01.10.12
  CORE MPO seeks citizen input on Total Mobility Plan Advocacy, Events, Government, Land Use, Neighborhoods, Planning, Public Space, Transportation | (0)

  The Coastal Region Metropolitan Planning Organization is hosting a series of meetings to solicit citizen input on the Total Mobility Plan: "The Total Mobility Plan is an in-depth planning effort which will emphasize sustainability, Complete Streets, Context Sensitive Design, non-motorized transportation and transit. The Plan will address the transportation network and specific facilities, but also the interaction between transportation and the community as a whole.  The thoroughfare planning component will address facilities for auto traffic, bicycles, pedestrians, and public transit vehicles, including intersections.  Workshop attendees will map context areas, creating a vision of the desired character in each community. The thoroughfare ...
• 01.03.12
  Telluride film festival screening scheduled for Jan. 21 in Savannah Advocacy, Events, Recycling, Transportation, Water | (0)

  Savannah is a long way, both horizontally and vertically, from the peaks of Telluride, but that won't stop films from the Mountainfilm in Telluride festival from making a tour stop at Trustees Theater on Saturday, Jan. 21. Titles, with a sustainability theme, to be screened in Savannah include: With My Own Two Wheels: "The story of four people whose lives have been deeply changed by bikes." One Plastic Beach: A pair of artists "have collected plastic trash along a one-kilometer stretch of beach near their home in Northern California". They make art from the debris, which they collect at a rate of ...
• 12.22.11
  Savannah Bicycle Campaign seeks matched donations to fund ambitious new project Advocacy, Economics, Education, Neighborhoods, Transportation | (0)

  The Savanna Bicycle Campaign has been active since its founding in 2008, working with government officials to improve bicycle infrastructure, offering bicycle safety courses, and sponsoring events that encourage people to make bicycling part of their daily lives. Now the group is seeking to establish a physical space from which to operate programs that will benefit Savannahians in need. The group aims to: "Put in place an SBC Bike Restoration and Education Center, to serve as a center of cycling activities in Savannah-Chatham, to provide a physical presence for SBC and to allow for collection and rehabilitation of discarded bicycles to ...
• 12.07.11
  Take a walk in the woods, combat alien invaders on Saturday, Dec. 10 Advocacy, Conservation, Events, Public Space | (0)

  Twenty-five volunteers are needed this Saturday from 9 a.m. until noon to help with invasive species removal and trail maintenance and cleaning work on the natural walking trails in Bacon Park Forest. Volunteers will learn about the environmental and economic benefits of urban forests and native and non-native species. Here are the details of this important mission: Volunteers should be sure to wear long sleeved shirts, long pants and closed-toe shoes with socks to help protect from sun, bugs and plants, and may bring work gloves, bypass pruners and pruning shears if they have them. Refreshments, community service hours, gloves and ...
• 12.01.11
  Savannah Tree Foundation needs volunteers on Dec. 2 Advocacy, Conservation, Events, Land Use | (0)

  The weather is beautiful in Savannah this week. It's hard to imagine a better way to enjoy it than spending this Friday afternoon outside volunteering for the Savannah Tree Foundation: "Volunteers are needed to help young trees as they mature into an urban forest at the Westlake reforestation site by  staking and mulching. This afternoon event will entail some hard work, but promises to be a fun afternoon and will help Savannah’s newest urban forest. Refreshments and community service credit provided. Tools and gloves also provided for volunteers who don't have them. Please wear closed toe shoes, long pants and long ...
• 11.07.11
  Coastal Georgia rivers top “Dirty Dozen” list Advocacy, Conservation, Water | (0)

  The Ogeechee, Altamaha and Savannah rivers have the dubious distinction of appearing first, second and third on the Georgia Water Coalition's Dirty Dozen report. It's aimed at "exposing the worst offenses to Georgia’s water." A press release describes why coastal rivers were selected: "Topping the list is the Ogeechee River where a textile manufacturing plant in Screven County is blamed for a fish kill earlier this year in which 30,000 fish perished. Rayonier’s pulp mill in Jesup, the proposed Savannah River Harbor deepening project..." The  group identifies a lack of regulation as a key cause of pollution in Georgia Rivers: " The Coalition ...
• 10.20.11
  Oct. 22 Savannah Food Day Festival promotes sustainable food systems Advocacy, Community Gardens, Events, Food | (0)

  Well Fed Savannah is sponsoring the Savannah Food Day Festival Saturday, Oct. 22 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Mother Matilda Beasley Park on East Broad Street. What is Food Day? Organizers describe it as "an Earth Day for Food." "Aimed at promoting healthy, sustainable, affordable, and just food systems in America, Food Day is a national grassroots mobilization backed by some of the most prominent voices for energizing the food movement ... people will gather at events big and small and from coast to coast in homes, schools, colleges, churches, city halls, farmers' markets, supermarkets, and elsewhere to raise ...
• 09.01.11
  Third annual Midnight Garden Ride will raise funds for bicycle advocacy and education Advocacy, Climate Change, Neighborhoods, Recreation, Transportation | (0)

  Drew Wade, chairman of the Savannah Bicycle Campaign, has conceived an idea that has grown over the last three years into one of Savannah's most unique events. It doesn't really happen at midnight, but the Midnight Garden Ride will get underway at dusk on Saturday, Sept. 3 and allow many participants to do something they might not normally: ride their bikes at night. There are cyclists on Savannah's streets at all times of day and night, of course, but the spectacle of 700 or more people riding bicycles as night falls is something else altogether. As I wrote in this week's  ...

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