Posted by Brandi on October 4, 2007 at 08:54 AM
Have you even been sitting alone in your room at night thinking, ‘If only I knew a place to go enjoy a tasty beverage and chat about the environmental issues that mean the most to me?” Of course, we’ve all been there!
Well now you can add a new social networking group to your list of happy hours; October has given ‘birth’ to GreenDrinks Savannah!
What is GreenDrinks Savannah?
“GreenDrinks Savannah is a social networking group initiated by local non-profits and businesses to engage community members in an informal setting. Savannahians love to socialize and they love to improve Savannah. GreenDrinks aims to provide an opportunity for both!”
Why should you go?
Because you love Savannah, of course, and care about ‘her’ sustainability. Plus, GreenDrinks Savannah was created as a local branch of the very hip international group GreenDrinks, whose mission is to act as a monthly, self-organizing network of individuals who love to chat about the environment and local ‘earthly’ issues. Basically, everyone else is doing it, so you should join too! Our local group’s instigators are Summer Teal Simpson, Sarah Gaines Barmeyer, Sara Barczak, Tommy Linstroth, John Van’T Slot, Patty McIntosh, Pete Krull, James Nolan and TCCi’s very own Chris Miller.
Posted by Brandi on September 11, 2007 at 06:31 AM
Everyone loves to find out a secret, right? And what could be better than juicy secrets merged with a community art project? Well, in case you have been living under a popular blog rock for the past few years, let me introduce you to the site PostSecret.
PostSecret invites you to:
anonymously contribute your secrets to PostSecret. Each secret can be a hope, regret, funny experience, unseen kindness, fantasy, belief, fear, betrayal, erotic desire, confession, or childhood humiliation. Reveal anything - as long as it is true and you have never shared it with anyone before.
You may wonder where the creative aspect comes in to play. Secret keepers are invited to create and mail in 4″x6″ postcards out of any mailable material, using multiple postcards for more than one secret, with the complete secret and image on one side.
Every Sunday Frank Warren, the creator of PostSecret, posts a new group of secrets on his blog. During the week, people are invited to write in their comments about each secret. These secrets have been compiled to create several books over the past few years: PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives, My Secret: A PostSecret Book, The Secret Lives of Men and Women: A PostSecret Book and the latest release, A Lifetime of Secrets.
Posted by Brandi on August 30, 2007 at 09:48 AM
“Cutting edge” and “entrepreneurial” are two words we love to hear around here, and SCAD was listed as both in the Kaplan College Guide and Fortune Magazine this past week. Holla! Woot Woot!
Since I don’t have the Kaplan book, I’m quoting the Savannah Business Report & Journal:
The Savannah College of Art and Design has been named one of “25 cutting-edge schools with an eye toward the future” in Kaplan’s 2008 “You Are Here: A Guide to Over 380 Colleges & Unlimited Paths to Your Future.” In 2006, SCAD was named “Hottest for Studying Art” among America’s 25 Hottest Colleges by Kaplan/Newsweek.
In the words of Borat, ‘a very niiice.’ Personally I like the “Hottest for Studying Art” award; that could be taken quite literally.
Fortune Magazine lists SCAD under ‘Best Colleges for Entrepreneurs’ in the Double Major category, stating:
Students at this artistic enclave can learn about commercial product development through the school’s Working Class Studio course. Undergraduate seniors and graduate students conduct market research, study supply and demand, and work with design and product development professionals to develop, and often manufacture, product lines. The students’ creations are sold at the college and through SCAD corporate partners, such as Barnes and Noble.
Posted by Brandi on August 28, 2007 at 10:15 AM
The Minneapolis-based blog twin city sidewalks wrote a post focusing not just on Savannah’s sidewalks but also our legacy of economic development. The author highlights his positive and negative aspects of our community while discussing the “three phases of Savannah: the historical, and modernist, and what ever you call the present.” I pulled out some of these highlights for discussion.
“The Historical”
“Savannah is one of the most interesting, well-preserved cities in the country…buildings sit around a unique town plan that scatters little public squares at the center of every other intersection. There’s nothing like this anywhere in the world, as far as I know, and Savannah’s squares are fantastic examples of walkable public space. On top of the squares, there is the rich history of Savannah itself.”
I can’t argue with that, downtown Savannah is beautiful. The squares, the river and the architecture stand as a tribute to the region’s history. Well, maybe the river isn’t quite a tribute to the history but I had to throw that in because I love our downtown waterfront.
“The Modernist”
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