Science for Georgia is trusted by Georgians to bring us the latest in evidence-based best practices can have a positive impact on the health, prosperity, and environment for all of Georgia.
We were formed, in part, to take science back from polarization and politicization – to ensure that someone was speaking truth to alternate facts, conspiracies, and gross overgeneralizations.
Science offers valuable solutions, but scientists they must be out there, in the community, speaking the truth and getting engaged.
2024 By the Numbers
Seven each Georgia Science Junctions and Climate Survival Trainings, reaching approximately 500 total attendees. Covering everything from gardening, to bug eating, to mushrooms, to volcanoes, to crypto & AI, to water infrastructure, to psychedelics.
Kicked off Monthly membership meetings. With 15-20 people per phone online forum, we love to hear feedback and drive action.
Series of Environmental Justice Forums in DeKalb: 2 forms (50 people each), 1 community clean-up day (30 people), 1 community garden day (20 people), and monthly Adopt-a-Stream water testing.
4 Jazz Hands Events – Zoo Atlanta, Athens, Tellus Science Museum, and Malignant Humor at Wild Heaven: over 400 total attendees
3rd Annual Environmental Justice & Climate Protection Conference, Savannah, GA: 140 people in person, 50 people online. Enough sponsorships to enable travel stipends!
Five special events: Energy Buden in Georgia (w/ Sierra Club, GA WAND, and Brown & Associates); Envisioning Wild Hope in Georgia (w/ GPB and Fruitful communities); Panel on Climate Anxiety (w/ Unearthing Farms); DaVinci Art and Science Discussion (w/ GPB and Valdosta State University); the Science of Ice Cream;
One Campus Food Security Summit w/ Georgia State University: over 80 in-person attendees
One Advocacy Training Guide including four amazing videos, sponsored, in part, by Union of Concerned Scientists, and a guide to all those terms at the Georgia General Assembly.
18 Interns who participated in days at the Capitol, Data for Georgia, conferences, events, and creating amazing content to drive change.
Legislative Participation:
- Two Days at the Capitol, Environmental Justice and Capitol Conservation.
- Remarks on HB 1338 that made the AP!
- Flyers for Data Centers, the Okefenokee, and Sludge Dumping.
- Evaluating bills based on a science rubric.