SAVANNAH SCULPTOR Mac MacCusker has an unflinching devotion to socially-conscious art. It started when she was painting at Jenkins High School. It entered the world of fired clay when she learned ceramics […]
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Chatham County green space plan in the works
The Resource Protection Commission – a division of the Metropolitan Planning Commission – is working on a long-term green space plan for Chatham County and needs residents’ feedback. “The Long-term […]
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Bag the plastic bags, baby
Molly McPherson’s bartender and Tybee surfer girl Ashley Workman has launched the BYOB Project, an awareness campaign to encourage patrons of Savannah restaurants to “bring your own bag.”
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Victory for the Ogeechee
Last week’s announcement ends what has been a contentious struggle between ORK’s environmental advocates and those representing KAF’s Screven County-based facility.
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The deep end
Editor’s Note — There have been a lot of developments in the past few weeks regarding the planned (and still controversial) deepening of the Savannah River. To get you up […]
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Whatever you do, don’t call it climate change!
Joplin, Missouri, is in ruins, victim of one of the most intense U.S. tornado seasons ever recorded. That disaster comes on the heels of the jaw dropping April 28th disaster, […]
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Waste management
The Georgia General Assembly’s legislative session for 2011 came to a close on Friday, wrapping up a year when politicians who were elected on platforms of job creation managed to […]
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Earth Day is here
A lot has changed since the first Earth Day, which was inaugurated on April 22, 1971. From hybrid cars to curbside recycling, the push to conserve natural resources has become […]
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Documenting the meltdown
The Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (SkIO) has received a major grant to study the effects of climate change on Arctic permafrost, and how those effects could alter the entire ocean […]
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Vision needed, not delusions
AT A TIME when the future of Georgia requires clear thinking and insightful action more than ever, a few key leaders are presenting the state’s citizens with some of the […]