By Julia Conzalez Varela Saborio, Ella Rintala, and Patrick Ryan In Georgia, if no candidate receives over 50% of the votes, a runoff election is required. This system was put in place during the 1960’s explicitly to discriminate against non-white minority…
June 13 & 14, 2024Georgia Southern University, Armstrong Campus, Savannah, GA and Zoom Register Here! Our third annual Environmental Justice and Climate Protection Conference brings together community leaders, concerned citizens, elected officials, academics, and industry experts. Together we will break…
And we are off! 2024 started with a bang at Science for Georgia. 8 Interns3 Community Ambassadors1 S. DeKalb Community Environmental Justice Forum1 Georgia Science Junction on Advocacy1 Climate Survival Training on Welding Expect great things out of our interns…
Working with our partners, Science for Georgia has developed an Environmental Justice Burden Index. This index is based on information from the White House's Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST) and the EPA's Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool…
Okay, let's take a step back. If we want to advocate for change, we are going to need a refresher on the systems within which change happens . The government in the United States operates on multiple levels, from federal to…
TL;DR - click here for tickets! Science can be seriously funny! We have the evidence to prove it** **not really Every year we train a cohort of scientists, technologists, engineers, mathematicians, physicians (anyone STEM-adjacent) in the art of stand-up comedy.…
A summary of some of the pressing public health issues facing Georgia in 2024. OPIOID CRISIS Drug overdoses and deaths across the United States have been rising in recent years and media coverage of the opioid crisis is at a…
by Grace Landram Environmental injustice negatively impacts the health of a community and its economic prospects, furthering the cycle of poverty. Climate action funding in the United States is at an all-time high, and two-thirds of Americans believe the government…
Happy New Year! I am super-excited to ring in 2024 and look forward to all the amazing things we have planned this year. If you are ready to get started - we have three upcoming events you can participate in.…
As we near the end of the year - it is amazing to look back and reflect on all the amazing things we have done this year. And we want to thank the most important person in this whole effort…
