MINI Coopers took over Savannah for The GREAT Ice Cream Run on the 7-day ice cream run from Sanford, Florida to Bar Harbor, Maine. MINI Cooper drivers stopped at homemade ice cream shops along the way to enjoy summer’s sweetest treat, including Savannah’s own Leopold’s. Check out local resident and MINI owner Murray Wilson enjoying the treats, and our very own Chris Miller explaining how to ‘catch’ smart, quirky, cool Mini owners.
Kind of makes me want to buy a MINI so I can join in next year’s festivities - and zipping around town and out to the beach wouldn’t be half bad either!
P.S. Thanks to the boys and girls over at the Paragon Muse for the spiffy video coverage!
Imagine not having to drive over the river and through the woods to relax in Hilton Head, but instead being able to enjoy the trip from the water. A reality in many other coastal locations (Portland, ME, Cape Cod, Chesapeake Bay), the idea of linking Savannah and Hilton Head by ferry is not a new one. In 2000, the Chatham Area Transit Authority looked at ways to improve the flow of people between locales. Last semester, a class of 11 students at SCAD, taught by Professor of Architecture Greg G. Hall, kept busy designing two terminals for a proposed high-speed ferry.
The proposed ideas were for a Savannah Terminal, which would draw visitors to the south end of River Street to be greeted by a garden-roofed building housing the terminal for the ferry. Dwarfed by the Marriott, the building would hopefully draw crowds to the largely unused portion of River Street. The Hilton Head Terminal would snake down the roads of Jenkins Island, enclosed by glass walls, this building would be designed to blend into the undeveloped landscape of the island.
Can you imagine eating only foods grown within 100 miles of your home?
That’s exactly what one couple from Vancouver, British Columbia did for one year. Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon decided to eat foods from within 100 miles of their home after learning the statistic that when the average North American sits down to eat, each ingredient has typically traveled at least 1,500 miles to their plate. “Since then, James and Alisa have gotten up-close-and-personal with issues ranging from the family-farm crisis to the environmental value of organic pears shipped across the globe. They’ve reconsidered vegetarianism and sunk their hands into community gardening. They’ve eaten a lot of potatoes.”
Eating local like this would be difficult, in my opinion, although there are many locations to purchase local meats, seafood and produce. It would just take more effort in to thinking about what you’re putting in to your body and where you are getting that food from. Then again, it may be easier for me since I eat gluten free. The environmental impact of eating local would be huge, if you ate local for one month, just think of all the processed food boxes, cans and rubbish you would waste. But imagine having to make your own pastas and breads from local grown grains.
What do you think of these results? I haven’t been on the ‘dating scene’ in awhile, so I’m not sure how Savannah would rank for Singles. Do you find dating in Savannah easy? Where are the local ‘hot spots’ for Singles in town?
Where do you think Savannah ranks as a city for mid-level professionals? I have found Savannah to be a remarkably easy place to gain employment and establish a home.
“Jason Buelterman, who coordinates an Advanced Placement program for high school students when he isn’t serving as part-time mayor of Tybee Island, taped a 10-minute video shot mostly from the beach to provide visual evidence that the town needs more sand.The video proves the point. In one shot he is standing on a pile of rocks that act as a dike. The camera pans right to show a two-story condo just feet away from the ocean. Another shot shows the proximity of the tide to the main evacuation road for a major storm.â€I love this video, it’s so personable, I like the Top 5 Reasons list and I enjoy how he lightly pokes fun at his transportation. I think this is a fantastic way to gain attention and highlight local issues – more politicians should be using this technology and I think we may start seeing that in the immediate future.
With the 4th of July holiday fast approaching (it’s almost JULY already?!), ones mind begins to think of hot summer BBQ’s and delicious cold beverages. On a walk the other week, I passed by a run down restaurant sign for Pig & Pan’s Bar-B-Que nestled between two houses a block west of Barnard south of Gwinnett Street.
I have been unable to find anything on Google - and I imagine that this is no longer a BBQ joint, but instead just a sign leftover from old times. Does anyone know the story behind this location?
And speaking of BBQ, does anyone recommend any place in particular as a Savannah favorite? I’ve heard Angel’s BBQ is good…and there’s always Sticky Fingers, but I prefer locally owned restaurants. Carey Hillards?
I found this post on one of my new favorite websites, Positive Sharing.
“Happy geeks are effective geeks. The main reason IT people are unhappy at work is bad relations with management, often because geeks and managers have fundamentally different personalities, professional backgrounds and ambitions.
Some people conclude that geeks hate managers and are impossible to lead. The expression “managing geeks is like herding cats†is sometimes used, but that’s just plain wrong. The fact is that IT people hate bad management and have even less tolerance for it than most other kinds of employees.
So where does it go wrong? I started out as a geek and later became a leader and an IT company founder so I’ve been lucky enough to have tried both camps. Here are the top 10 mistakes I’ve seen managers make when leading geeks:â€
1: Downplay training
2: Give no recognition
3: Plan too much overtime
4: Use management-speak
5: Try to be smarter than the geeks
6: Act inconsistently
7: Ignore the geeks
8: Make decisions without consulting them
9: Don’t give them tools
10: Forget that geeks are creative workers
Of the Top 20 Mid-Sized City Boomtowns, Savannah comes in at #10 – Congratulations! Our neighbor to the north, Charleston, made the list at #15.
Savannah’s 2006 ranking in this category was #49 – we moved up an impressive 30 places. Mid-sized cities judge based on an employment base of 100,000 – 449,000, and take in to account the growth of non-farm jobs over the past six years.
Inc. Magazine’s Top 10 Midsize Business Boomtowns:
1. Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL
2. McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX
3. Sarasota-Bradenton-Venice, FL
4. Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR
5. Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL
6. Lakeland, FL
7. Provo-Orem, UT
8. Rena-Sparks, NV
9. Boise City, ID
10. Savannah, GA
A map interface on Inc.’s site allows you to check out the country based on each city’s ranking.
Do you ever have days where you feel like you have to reorganize something to feel productive?
For example, today I am home having run some errands this morning, and now I am sitting here typing from my newly organized home office space. After posting about those ‘Seeeeeiously Cool Workplaces’ last week I was tempted to do some research on cool home office spaces and ran across a whole website devoted to the sharing of creative office spaces. The website is titled On My Desk, where “ARTISTS, ILLUSTRATORS, DESIGNERS & CREATIVE FOLK SHARE THE STUFF ON THEIR DESKS…â€
My home office is incredibly boring, but I hope to add some inspiring photos and other pieces of flair to spice it up.
What does your home office space look like? Email your photos to bwalzer@thecreativecoast.org and we’ll post them. I’ll start with mine.
As of Monday’s news, the Director of the Savannah River Ecology Lab has resigned after challenging federal plans to close the facility.
“Paul Bertsch, director of the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory for eight years, says he will leave the post later this month but hopes to stay on as a researcher – if the lab stays open. Bertsch had been fighting to restore federal funding to the lab, which studies the effects of the nuclear weapons complex on the environment around it. Historically, the U.S. Department of Energy has provided most of the funding for the University of Georgia to run the lab. But federal officials have said the lab hasn’t held up a pledge to become financially self-sustaining, and the facility had been set to close last month.â€
The chances of this lab remaining open and funded does not look promising.
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