Sierra Club Georgia Chapter Blog

By Lornett Vestal On the weekend of May 18-20, 2018, a group of 24 veterans, military, family members, and friends joined the Sierra Club Military Outdoors (SCMO) on the Chattooga River bordering Georgia and South Carolina for the Southeast...

Atlanta metropolitan area saw 21% job growth in 2017   ATLANTA, GA - The Atlanta metropolitan area created more than 500 new jobs in the state’s growing solar industry last year, according to a report released by The Solar Foundation. The...

By Oliver Owens In recent weeks, the nation has awoken to young people’s ability to organize for political change. But for those of us who work with the Sierra Student Coalition, this isn’t news. We are reminded of high school students’ immense...

By Bill Witherspoon “That boulder has a bad attitude.” I was leading a geology walk into Zahnd Natural Area on Lookout Mountain, and I had inserted an awful pun. “Attitude” can refer to the orientation of rock layers in space....

A Clean Slate For Vogtle, Clean Energy For Georgia The Case for Ending Construction at the Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant and Reorienting Policy to Least-Cost, Clean Alternatives A report by Dr. Mark Cooper, Senior Research Fellow for...

By Ian Karra Georgians got an early Christmas present from the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) in the form of guaranteed higher future electricity rates. On December 21, the commission unanimously voted to give Georgia Power the green...

By Matthew Snope  We live in a hotel civilization…  in which people are obsessed with comfort, contentment, and convenience, where the lights are always on. [We] don’t have time for questions. We don’t have time for such...

A recent move by the Camden County Board of County Commissioners could open Cumberland Island to development by a handful of elite property owners, including heirs of Coca-Cola founder Asa Candler.