WorldChanging columnist, Clark Williams-Derry reports here on a recent study from a couple of Carnegie Mellon profs that compares life-cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with food production against food miles.
Summary of the findings: A dietary shift can be a more effective means of lowering an average household’s food-related environmental footprint than “buying local.” Shifting […]

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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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Traveling over the past week, I visited the queen of sustainable cities, Portland, Oregon and a prime example of Midwestern disinvestment, Hutchinson, Kansas. Getting there, I spent time in the Houston, Atlanta, Memphis and Kansas City airports and, according to the newly revamped TerraPass air travel carbon emissions calculator, emitted a whopping total of […]

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Over the last year, Sustainable Savannah has been mentioned several times in the pages of the Savannah Morning News, most often by award-winning columnist Bill Dawers. However, yesterday’s story about Coastal Commuters by Lauren Nardella marks the first time the site has appeared front page of the paper. This revelation also alerted me to […]

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Tomorrow morning at 11 a.m., a press conference will be held on the frontage road at the corner of Abercorn Street and DeRenne Avenue to announce the launch of a revolutionary (at in local terms) approach to reducing traffic congestion. At its most basic essence, Coastal Commuters makes it easy for people to find someone […]

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