While three new coal-fired power plants appear to be getting the go ahead in Georgia, Canada’s environment minister announced last week that the country plans to retire all of its coal-energy behemoths. Of course, Canada’s a lot less dependent on coal than Georgia is. While Georgia Power and other electric utilities in the state get more [...]

I once met a woman on a Florida beach who shared with me her disgust at her son’s latest infatuation: Jet skiing. Jet skis are so loud and obnoxious, she groused, that Germany had actually banned them. I told her I had no problem with jet skis being legal in the U.S. [...]

Check out this fine piece of documentary artwork at the Krog Street tunnel — ground zero for high-profile graffiti in Atlanta. While we’re on the subject, though, here’s the funniest piece of BP mockage on the internet:

On the heels of a Republican candidate’s drill-baby-still declaration, three Democratic gubernatorial have declared their opposition to oil drilling off Georgia’s coast. But the perceived Democratic front runner, former Gov. Roy Barnes, isn’t voicing a position. In statements I gathered over the last few days, former state House Minority Leader DuBose Porter (right) was the most [...]

The organizer of a June 26 “Hands Across the Sand” gathering on Tybee Island says BP’s recent spill underscores how important it is to protect the Georgia coast from oil drilling. I wrote Tybee resident Paul Wolff after his former state senator, Eric Johnson, who’s now running for governor, announced last week that he still backs [...]

After years of claiming the Southeast is too cloudy to generate solar energy, Georgia Power is planning to generate 2.5 megawatts of solar energy itself. And after fiercely opposing requirements that the cost of buying solar be folded into consumers’ rates, the company is proposing to do just that with the solar energy it produces. Advocates [...]

The Mother Nature Network column published my Political Pundit column today about President Obama’s opportunity to rally the nation behind clean energy. The column argues that Obama’s congressional party mates  have more to gain by using the BP oil spill as a pivot point toward fighting climate change  than they would gain from being careful [...]

Having a hard time wrapping your mind around the nation’s largest oil spill? What? You haven’t made a mental note of the distance from Louisiana bayou to Pensacola, Fla.? Or from New Orleans to Havana? Check out this web tool to get a better idea of the scale of BP’s disaster. It allows you to move [...]

Georgia was expected to be among 10 East Coast states that banded together to get federal help in pushing forward with wind energy, according to Georgia Public Radio. Except Gov. Sonny Perdue’s administration missed the the deadline to apply for the consortium. A spokesman for GPB says the state eventually will join up with the others. [...]

You’re either for offshore drilling or you’re for the terrorists. That’s the message of Georgia gubernatorial candidate Eric Johnson, who doubled-down on his support for  oil exploration off the coast of Georgia in a post on his campaign blog this week. As appalled as I am by the images of oil washing up on beaches while [...]