Plastic bags have been in the news a lot this week. Whole Foods is fazing out the things. And I caught a segment about U.S. cities that are enacting bag bans on a network nightly news program, but I don’t remember which network (Dumont, maybe?). Also, last week I noticed reusable bags for sale […]

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The Savannah College of Art and Design’s Sustainability and Eco Practices Council was featured in the Jan. 10 issue of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education bulletin. The AASHE bulletin linked to a story in The Chronicle, the faculty/staff newspaper at SCAD. Here’s a snip from “SCAD forms eco practices council,” […]

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Thanks to everyone who sent me links to this story about the Chinese plastic bag ban. In a coastal area like ours, we should be especially emphatic about saying “do not want” to these things. They are a scourge on our land and water.
Because of their ubiquity, plastic bags become invisible to us. I’ve […]

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Today’s Savannah Morning News Coastal Empire section features great photos by Carl Elmore of Drew Wade of the Coastal Georgia Greenway and his daughter Margaret. According to the cutline, the pair “used a bicycle” to transport a Christmas tree to the “Bring One for the Chipper” recycling event at Home Depot. While the cutline is […]

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To my way of thinking, Savannah’s lanes are one of the most ingenious components of Gen. James Oglethorpe’s city plan. I’m thankful that they were replicated in my 20th century neighborhood. Lanes — or alleys are as they are called most everywhere else — aren’t very glamorous but they fill a number of important roles. […]

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