Over the past 20 years, the Chatham Environmental Forum (CEF) has addressed complex issues, such as air quality in the Savannah area and its potential impact on community cancer rates, and the long term protection of the Floridan aquifer as the area’s primary drinking water source. For each issue undertaken by the CEF, the final analysis has been a consensus product based on the best available science with recommended solutions that all sectors within the community could support.
Challenge
Governments not only affect countywide sustainability with the policies they create and enforce, they also employ large numbers of people who live and work in Chatham County. In fact, the City of Savannah and Chatham County alone employ over 4,000 people. By adopting policies that allow our local economy and natural resources to prosper, local units of government shape our County’s future. By greening their internal operations they lead the way and save taxpayer’s money. As a municipality or other governmental entity CEF invites you to adopt the JoIN Plan in an effort to make Chatham the “greenest county” in Georgia.