Council for Sustainability and Eco Practices at SCAD

A group of SCAD Historic Preservation students urged shoppers to spend their money locally over the Labor Day Weekend with a Web site and merchant outreach program that garnered plenty of attention from local media. A Savannah Morning News story described the sustainability angle at work in Savannah’s Shop Local Challenge:

“The benefits of shopping in locally owned stores are highlighted in the student campaign and include local character and well-being, environmental sustainability by providing walkable town centers that reduce automobile use and suburban sprawl.”

A second Savannah Morning News story is here.

Photo credit: Elizabeth Patterson

From the Savannah Morning News:

When Scott Boylston began hearing about nuclear power as a clean, safe and cheap solution to global warming, he knew it was a great topic for his graphic design students.

“Poster design is all about generating a public dialogue,” said Boylston, professor of graphic design at the Savannah College of Art and Design. “Every project in the class focuses on socially relevant material.”

Making the subject even more pressing locally is a plan to expand the nuclear power plant closest to Savannah - Georgia Power’s Plant Vogtle on the Savannah River near Augusta.

In Alison Johnson’s poster, poker chips stack up in the shape of cooling towers. The poster reads: “Nuclear bets … the risks aren’t worth it.”

Read more of Mary Landers’ story here.

District TV News, the television news arm of SCAD’s student newspaper, produced a nice profile of Jason Dean. In it, he describes his role in recycling efforts at the Oglethorpe House residence hall. Watch it here.

Meghan Woodcock, an interior design M.F.A. candidate at SCAD, was awarded Best of Competition for the 2008 Student Sustainable Design Competition, sponsored by the International Interior Design Association. Woodcock will receive $1,000 and a complimentary IIDA student membership for the 2008-09 school year for her “Disaster Relief Transportable Schools” design. Read more here.