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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Background: The Coastal Marshlands Protection Act (CMPA) states . . .
This coastal marshlands resource system is costly, if not impossible, to reconstruct or rehabilitate once adversely affected by man. It is important to conserve this system for the present and future use and enjoyment of all citizens and visitors to our state. Activities and structures […]

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Two comments in the Savannah Morning News’ Vox Populi section caught my eye this morning. The emphasis in each is mine.
“Close off the streets for the kids to play basketball? My neighborhood looks like a dump after these kids play. Their language from the youngest to the oldest comes from the dump as well. […]

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A story in the Dec. 17 issue of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports a consultant has confirmed what many suspected. Atlanta’s automobile-based regional transportation system has thrown a wrench in its high output growth machine. According to Dennis J. Donovan of WDG Consulting, “some companies are quietly rejecting Atlanta because of traffic.” Here’s more […]

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The map at localharvest.org still doesn’t show much happening in community gardening or Community Sustained Agriculture in Savannah or Chatham County.
Nonetheless, there are people around here who are and who have been bringing organic farm products to their families and this community all the while. They are working on the community garden thing and even […]

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