Our Guiding Principles

We’re working towards a bold vision: to create a future where our coast has thriving communities, protected landscapes, and secure wildlife.

Since our earliest days, we’ve tackled issues on the local, state, and national stage—from reinstating Georgia’s 25-foot salt marsh buffer to leading the campaign against proposed offshore drilling and seismic testing. We’ve celebrated what we love about our coast and helped to usher in a new, more collaborative style of advocacy—one that celebrates the positive while pushing back against dangerous proposals that threaten our wild places, wildlife, and quality of life.

Protecting Georgia’s Coast—forever.

One Hundred Miles protects Georgia’s 100-mile coast through advocacy, education, and community engagement.

It all starts with love.

Love for this place. Love for our people, wildlife, and historic culture. Love for our quality of life—the traditions we cherish now, and the ones we want to leave for our children and grandchildren.

From the beginning, our mission has been rooted in this simple understanding: that our 100 miles are a wonder of the world, worthy of our pride and deserving of our protection. All of us at One Hundred Miles are here because we love Georgia’s coast more than any other in the world.

Our Guiding Principles

Georgia’s coast is a wonder of the world that deserves our pride and protection.
Coastal Georgia’s quality of life depends on preserving our natural and cultural resources in the midst of growth and rising seas.
Economic development depends on a healthy coastal environment.
Credible advocacy requires a foundation of scientific knowledge and research.
The present condition of Georgia’s coast is the direct result of the actions of a diverse team of individuals and organizations committed to conservation.
Coastal conservation relies on an educated citizenry that loves and understands our resources.
Building a sustainable business is the most certain strategy for success toward our mission.
Successful, long-term conservation requires the inclusion of all people and a commitment to a just, humane, and sustainable world.

Our Commitment to Justice

At OHM, our board and staff is committed to intentionally recognizing environmental racism and other injustices and the people who have been historically disenfranchised.

Our justice program is guided by two overarching principles: First, that pollution and other environmental problems disproportionately and discriminately impact people of color and people living in poverty. And second, that the condition of generational poverty results in environmental degradation.

With leadership from OHM’s Justice Strategist and in partnership with the communities we serve, we are working to:

Ensure decisions about infrastructure do not result in the exclusion of improvements to existing communities.
Reduce the loss of historic African American communities as a result of historically discriminatory policies that have led to property loss to tax sales, heirs’ property, and irresponsible zoning.
Advocate for reformed federal and state processes related to Superfund sites so that people living in affected communities are legitimately engaged in remedy and clean-up decision-making, impacts of pollution on human health is included in damage assessments, and at least two sites on Georgia’s coast are cleaned up in the next 10 years.
Collaborate to help improve the long-term sustainability of partners that serve communities, promote the stories of Gullah Geechee people and their connection with the environment, and seek to address the legacy of contamination on our coast the impact it has had on human health.