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Partnerships Promote Visionary Solutions
Sierra Club partners with diverse groups across the country to promote visionary solutions to local, regional, and national environmental challenges. Activists promote union job creation, renewable sources of energy, reliable transit and the restoration of cities and wildlands.
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Sierra Club and Steelworkers discuss global warming and identify solutions, including Just Transition, which calls for financial support, health care, and retraining for employees displaced by environmental protection policies.
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A coalition of over 30 union, religious, community, and environmental groups won a community benefits ordinance ensuring good jobs, affordable housing, and environmental protection for a redevelopment plan in downtown Milwaukee. Restoring this urban area included the demolition of a highway spur and the creation of green space and affordable housing. |
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Native American groups in the Southwest joined the Sierra Club at community fairs and concerts to highlight the costs of the Bush Administration's energy policy and promote energy efficiency and renewables. |
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The California Solar Project is a joint effort between the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Service Employees International Union, UNITE-HERE, and Sierra Club to promote more union installed solar power in California. The project works with IBEW union electricians throughout the state to design and install solar photovoltaic power systems at homes and buildings of unions, their members and Sierra Club members. |
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The Sierra Club has joined with elk hunters to call for the protection of Lolo Peak, Montana's loftiest landmark. Developers have slated the wild public land to become the largest ski resort in North America. Hunters, anglers and Club members are concerned about water quality, recreational access and crucial winter elk habitat. |
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The Montana chapter worked with students, government agencies and local economic interests on a pilot watershed restoration project in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest. Together, the team restored habitat by obliterating forest roads, removing culverts and replanting native plants. |
New Mexico Sustainable Energy Campaign
Interfaith environmental alliances are coming together in many states to identify solutions to global warming. In alliances such as the New Mexico Sustainable Energy Campaign, churches and synagogues are working with local Sierrans to hold symposiums, "green" their buildings, promote hybrid automobiles, and shape local, state, and federal debates on energy consumption and global warming. |
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