homepage - programs - environmental justice and community partnerships
Our Mission: To discuss and explore the linkages between environmental quality and social justice, and to promote dialogue, increased understanding and appropriate
action.
Students from New York City travelled to Puerto Rico as part of an alternative spring break project run by the Sierra Club's Building Bridges to the Outdoors program. They hiked through a rainforest, felt a waterfall tumble over their faces, and kayaked through a bioluminescent lagoon. But a more pressing mission underscored their trip: raising awareness about saving leatherback turtles, a species that has roamed the planet's sea and shores since the days of the dinosaurs. 
Read more
News
Sierra Club organizer Darryl Malek-Wiley with volunteers at a Public Lands Day cleanup of Bayou Bienvenue in the Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans.
Across the country, from Washington, D.C., to Arizona, we're supporting communities as they tackle issues from coal companies sapping pristine drinking water to homes being destroyed by mountaintop-removal mining. See where we're working