My new favorite sustainability blog -SusHI (Sustainability in Hawai’i) recently posted on 7th Generation’s Sustainability Index.   I’ve posted a partial index below and you can read the whole thing here.  The index narrows in on a few major areas -energy, pollution, recycling- and is far from a complete picture, but it does highlight some trends […]

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Last night, creative city making champion Charles Landry spoke to a packed house. I had the pleasure of being in the audience along with most of the usual suspects (govt., real estate development, business, downtownies, a few artists & SCAD folk) . . . you were probably there too. He was worth standing […]

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After a week of local food love in Savannah (Wed: Trustees, Sat: Starland, Sun: Grn. Tomato), I was interested to read an article this morning about Wal-Mart sourcing more produce from local farms across the US. From the GreenBiz article . . .
During the last two years, partnerships between local farms and the world’s […]

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Savannah Morning News columnist K.W. Oxnard has recently returned from vacation and in today’s paper she shares some of the good ideas she saw in other cities. Among them, a series of connected greenspaces:
Unlike Savannah, New York has spent the last 20 years creating a greenbelt through all five boroughs, patching together individual parks with […]

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I’ll admit it. I’m a city rankings junkie. Kiplingers just published the 2008 Best Cities to Live, Work and Play and while it completely ignores environmental sustainability, the rankings do what seems to be a fairly decent job capturing social and economic sustainability by looking at indicators like cost of living index, median […]

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