When we first started BidForGreen, I spent a little less than a week down in Jekyll Island. It was a great time, with lots of family, and lots of great nature time. I wrote one of our first blogs from there.

Fortunately, the problem I bemoaned has shown at least some improvement. Governor Sonny Perdue had appointed a bunch of developers to the Jekyll Island Authority, and although they still describe a wonderful and natural stretch of beach as "unattractive", at least they have backed off their plan for a hotel and parking deck.

I honestly still don't trust the people put in charge. They would sell their mother's backside if someone could build a condo on it, but at least they bowed to public pressure on this issue.

I'm back at Jekyll, and took another bike ride. I love this island. Why have we decided that the only measure of progress is a combination of Chili's restaurants and J. Jill stores? This place was progress in 1949 when the state of Georgia made a great statement for the environment, and it still is today. Anything else would be a step in the wrong direction.