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03.05.09

Site offers social networking for tree lovers Advocacy, Conservation, Global Warming, Land Use, Neighborhoods, Public Space | (0)
A Web site called "The Grove" has been launched by the Georgia Urban Forest Council and the Georgia Forestry Commission "to engage and encourage Georgia’s citizens to plant trees and help protect Georgia’s urban tree canopy." A tip from a Sustainable Savannah reader suggests that one appeal of the site is its social networking function: "The Grove allows members to create a profile, post stories and upload pictures of tree planting experiences that can be shared with friends and family. This site celebrates families that come together, both on and offline, to ensure their descendants live in a healthy urban forest, ...
01.10.09

Kunstler offers (small) glimmers of hope Economics, Food, Global Warming, Government, Transportation | (1)
James Howard Kunstler's vision of the future is grim and one that many people would prefer not to consider at all. Former marketing executives working permanently as field hands, dissolution of central government, collapse of social institutions, ongoing civil war, starvation and famine — all happening on America soil — sound like elements from a science fiction novel. And they are. Kunstler's novel, "World Made by Hand" convincingly imagines the inhabitants of a fictional New England community coping with the future Kunstler predicts in "The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First ...
01.06.09

Hoping our next president goes by the book Conservation, Energy, Global Warming, Government, Land Use, Neighborhoods, Planning, Public Space, Transportation | (1)
In the Internet circles I frequent there is a great deal of concern about what how President-elect Barack Obama is planning to spend that stimulus money. Will the transportation infrastructure come in the form of projects that will help us lessen our dependence on oil, improve public health, rebuild shattered communities, combat climate change, restore a sense of place, and better equip us to live prosperous, comfortable and meaningful lives in a future of increasingly scarce energy and resources? Or will we get more of the inefficient, neighborhood-destroying, sprawl-producing type of infrastructure that mandates automobile use for all trips ...
12.09.08

City debuts hybrid streetcar, reintroduces bicycle fleet with “Climate Action Parade” Conservation, Global Warming, Government, Transportation | (2)
Savannah Mayor Otis Johnson and other city officials gathered on River Street today to show off North America's first hybrid streetcar. The event also included more traditional city vehicles that, like the street car, are running on biodiesel from Refuel Savannah. Also on display were bicycles from the city fleet and an electric scooter used by city's film office. Elected officials including Jeff Felser, Mary Osborne, Mary Ellen Sprague and Tony Thomas took turns pumping biodiesel into the streetcar. Savannah Alderman Larry Stuber, who spoke at the press conference, serves on the National Executive Committee of Climate Communities. The press conference was ...
10.22.08

Here come the hybrids: CAT provides a sneak peek at new bus Global Warming, Government, Transportation | (3)
Near the end of today's Chatham Urban Transit Study Policy Committee meeting, Chatham Area Transit Interim Executive Director Joe Murray Rivers announced he had something to show the group. Near the corner of State and Drayton streets waited a Gillig Hyrbrid low floor transit bus. Rivers said CAT has ordered 11 hybrid buses, which will be carrying passengers in Savannah in 12-18 months. Eric Curl wrote about the buses in the Savannah Morning News earlier this year. According to promotional literature, the buses are powered by "GM Allison Hybrid Ep Systems" that deliver improved fuel economy: "The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) ...

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- Bgrand2day: the government has no right to tell me what i can and cannot do. im can operate a car fine while texting, in fact people not texting arent always as good at driving, so i dont think the goverment can tell me not to. its violating my rights not to let me do what i want in my own car.
- Thomas: Seems as if nothing was taken from the previous incident of the terracotta lion that was destroyed by a driver speeding across the same street. I’m sure that statue was just as much of a criminal. I am curious though, as to what the driver would think about the comments on the...
- Zufechten: Every right and privilege comes with the attendant responsibility to exercise it with regard to the effects on others, whether it is dumping toxic materials, selling risky real estate derivatives, or operating a three ton truck while not paying attention. To rephrase an old saying,...
- Bryan Fordham: The logic doesn’t make perfect sense unless you begin from the assumption that the government should regulate anything potentially dangerous. I also never said it wasn’t dangerous to text and drive. But this type of hyperbolic posts don’t make the case well at all.
- Bryan Fordham: When I worked downtown, I always looked both ways before crossing one way streets. You don’t have to have too many close encounters before you wise up. But I don’t recall the police ever cracking down on that. Odd how pedestrians are the enemy, somehow.
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- Daniel: The logic of this post makes perfect sense. I don’t think the point is that anything that could possibly hurt someone should be outlawed, but that anything that has pretty good chance of hurting someone should. The evidence of the dangers of texting while driving are accepted by all...
- Bryan Fordham: So your point, then, is anything that could possibly hurt someone should be outlawed? We have laws about wild animals and swinging bats already. What about just walking down the street carrying a bat, though? I might swing it, and it might hit someone. We need a law for that, too,...
- One who knows: I believe that the police should check the vision of the driver. Assuming the driver is whom I have been lead to believe it is, he has extremely poor vision and should no longer be driving. He was also in an exhausted state which is not illegal, but may have contributed to reduced...
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