Going green, the City of Savannah is jumping on the bandwagon and working to make the city more environmentally friendly. A special town hall meeting was held tonight discussing environmental sustainability. In an on your side community report NEWS 3's Tristan Tully asked neighbors what they think about the city going green.
Neighbors packed into the Savannah Civic Center to hear about the city's green initiative they're calling "Thrive". The city is just starting the program and they say community involvement is key.
Rachel Smithson, City of Savannah:
"We're only something like 2% of the energy consumption and waste consumption of the city of Savannah as a whole so it's gonna take the business community and each individual resident doing their part to really make the city of Savannah a more sustainable community."
People who attended the meeting, like neighbor Karen Grainey sounded off on their ideas of how Savannah can go green, "Well, there's so many different things you can do, I mean there's energy conservation, there's transportation issues, there's land planning, green space, there's just so many things there isn't really time to, you know, the options are just endless."
John Bennett, a member of the Savannah Bicycle Campaign wondered how bikes are going to play into the newer, greener Savannah, "Parking, and law enforcement to help cyclists feel safer on the road because we know that once more cyclists get out there attracted by new facilities, they all become safer with ever additional cyclist on the road."
For now, Rachel says the plan stretches out over several years but they hope to get moving quickly, "I think that our bigger Thrive campaign can really be a way that Savannah can show that it is capable of leading by example and that it does a lot of positive things for the South East region."
The city is hoping to cut their carbon footprint by 15% by the year 2020.
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