Some of my fellow citizens have written letters to the editor of the Savannah Morning News complaining about high gasoline prices. The vast majority of these advocate offshore drilling and/or cracking down on shadowy speculators, who are allegedly driving up the price of oil. The beauty of both these suggestions that they conveniently allow us […]

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I joined a capacity crowd yesterday at the Savannah Development and Renewal Authority to hear the Historic Savannah Foundation’s Melissa Jest and Clara Fishel of Melaver (and this Web site) speak about the idea that green buildings and historic preservation and not mutually exclusive terms. I’ll probably write alittle about their excellent presentations […]

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I’ve been thinking a lot about crime in the last couple weeks and violent crime in particular. There’s a definite relationship between sustainability and crime, with the former often being offered as a way to reduce the latter. Walking and bicycling, for example, are both sustainable modes of transportation that can have a positive effect […]

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Last night, creative city making champion Charles Landry spoke to a packed house. I had the pleasure of being in the audience along with most of the usual suspects (govt., real estate development, business, downtownies, a few artists & SCAD folk) . . . you were probably there too. He was worth standing […]

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Some days the sustainability-related events seem to stack up. Today is one of those days.
From 10-11 a.m., Preserving Savannah Neighborhoods is staging a protest at the corner of Abercorn Street and DeRenne Avenue. The purpose? To highlight the Georgia Department of Transportation’s counterproductive decision to go ahead with construction of a right turn lane from […]

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