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11.17.09

Emergent Structures Project finds new uses for reclaimed building materials Energy, Green Building, Neighborhoods | (0)
The links between historic preservation and sustainability are clear and make dandy bumper sticker slogans. Whether you prefer "Historic Preservation: The Ultimate Recycling" or "The Greenest Building is the One Already Built," the point is the same. Rehabilitating historic structures harnesses the embodied energy of buildings. It's a fact, however, that historic structures are tragically demolished (even here in Savannah) and the salvage and sale of architectural antiques is a profitable business. But what happens when the doomed structure is from the more recent past? What can be done with building parts that are not likely to be displayed in an ...
04.15.09

Green Thumbs Energy, Green Building, Water | (0)
It didn't make the print edition, but check out ( . . . shameless plug here . . .) my Green Thumb Guide on Savannah Magazine's website. Thanks Kelly & Kathrine! Any other garden tips?
01.29.09

Another Opportunity to Rethink The Big Box Model Business, Green Building, Land Use, Planning | (0)
Martin Melaver of local sustainable development company Melaver, Inc., has an interesting post on the Chelsea Green about balancing business, sustainability and placemaking. An excerpt: "My hope is that the specific story of Circuit City will serve as something of a morality tale, one that will teach us to rewire the way we think of our communities, the ways in which we attend more to local businesses that need our support, the ways in which we address growth as something more long-term and more deliberate. Perhaps this specific bankruptcy will teach us to re-wire our own circuitry as communities where lasting ...
09.10.08

Savannah Morning News publishes Sustainable Fellwood update Government, Green Building, Neighborhoods, Planning | (1)
Mary Landers' story, "New Fellwood takes shape," provides Savannah Morning News readers with an update on the LEED Neighborhood Development Pilot Project. The housing development, originally completed in 1939, closed in 2004 and the property was razed to make way for "a $50 million mixed-use development encompassing 220 public/affordable housing units (in several phases), 100 senior housing units, 10 single family homeowner units, and potential retail, medical, and technical space." Once it's completed former Fellwood residents will scarcely recognize the place, Landers predicts, and that's a good thing: "What they'll find is the first neighborhood in Savannah and the fourth in the state certified by the ...
09.03.08

Can building green make storms less mean? Green Building, Neighborhoods, Water | (0)
On Sunday, Savannah Morning News Environmental Reporter Mary Landers included an interesting angle in her wide ranging story, "Big losses likely when Savannah's luck runs out." Here's a snip: "The damage would be enormous in part because development itself intensifies a storm's effects. Hard surfaces such as streets, parking lots and roofs don't allow water to soak into the ground." Can greater use of pervious paving, green roofs and other stormwater management techniques offset the potential for damage presented by our jumbo-sized parking lots and other sprawling paved areas?

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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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