Savannah Didn’t Try to Be Green—It Just Refused to Sink
I didn’t expect Savannah to show up on a list about environmental health. Not because it’s some dystopian wasteland choking on its own humidity (though let’s be honest, the air can feel like a warm sponge that’s been left out too long), but because Savannah has always struck me as… timeless. Frozen. Like a place more concerned with preserving Spanish moss aesthetics than calculating particulate matter per cubic meter. And yet, here we are: Savannah, officially named among the Top 12 U.S. cities to watch on environmental health. Which raises an obvious question: Are we watching because it’s thriving—or because it’s about to teach the rest of us a lesson the hard way? The Surprise Entry Nobody Asked For When I first saw the list, I assumed it would be the usual suspects—cities with sleek sustainability branding, bike lanes that outnumber cars, and citizens who compost like it’s a competitive sport. Places where people say things like “carbon footprint” in casual conversation withou...
