Planet Main PDF January/February 2006 e-mail December 20, 2005 e-mail October 28, 2005     JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2006 The Power of Many   How We Saved the Arctic Refuge (For Now) Getting Somewhere on the Bridges to Nowhere Cities Get Cool Measuring Mercury Fighting for the Valle Vidal Building Trust There's No Limit to Colorado's Power Finding Common Ground Trickle-Down Activism ‘Hey, I Can Do This’ I Can Smell for Miles and Miles Building Environmental Community One Canyon at a Time Paper to Pixels Sierra Summit Soars ‘Why Live If You Don't Have Something to Struggle For?’ Expanding Excom     Club Charts Direction for Next Five Years Big Easy to Beltway: ‘Where's the Beef?’ 2005 Timeline Faces of the Sierra Club     NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2005 Hope Surfaces in Katrina's Wake Snapshots from the Summit Democracy Breaks Out Rally for the Arctic A Better Legacy Thoroughbred Power Plant Blocked       WHO WE ARE John Swingle Betsy Bennett Larry Fahn       INSIDER Is Your City a Cool City? Endangered Species Act Endangered Smithfield Shareholder Resolution Owens Valley Victory New Energy Bill Exploits Katrina     From the Editor: Wake of the Flood ClubBeat   Search for a Story Back Issues

The Power of Many JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2006 WHAT WE DO BEST Welcome to our 2005/2006 year-in-review/year-in-preview issue, where we highlight 16 examples of “what we do best” in the Sierra Club. You can click on the headlines in the left column, scroll down the descriptions below, or download a pdf by clicking on the Planet's front page. First, Build a New Energy Future At the Sierra Summit, 765 delegates chose energy as the top grassroots priority and in November, the Board of Directors approved a new set of conservation initiatives with “Smart Energy Solutions” as the top priority. MORE How the Arctic Refuge Was Saved (For Now) True, polar bears have been sighted from Portland to Pittsburgh, but winning on the Arctic is not about the bears—it’s about targeted and coordinated grassroots organizing. MORE And read about how one Sierra Student Coalition activist—a high-school senior—helped persuade her congressman to vote "the right way" on the Arctic. Getting Somewhere on the Bridges to Nowhere They say there’s no such thing as bad publicity, but try telling that to Representative Don Young and Senator Lisa Murkowski, whose now-infamous “Bridges to Nowhere” have become embarrassing examples of fiscally irresponsible pork-barrel spending projects. The Sierra Club helped make these boondoggles into household names—more Americans now have heard of “Bridges to Nowhere” than know the name of their own representative in Congress. MORE Fighting for the Valle Vidal Northern New Mexico’s Valle Vidal is a wildlife haven—home to the state’s largest elk herd—and a boon to the local economy, used by ranchers, hikers, sportsmen, outfitters, Boy Scouts, and sightseers, among others. So when the area was targeted by the Bush administration for coalbed methane drilling, a local coalition including the Sierra Club sprang to its defense. MORE > See more "what we do best" stories SEE OUR 2005 TIMELINE FACES OF THE SIERRA CLUB 2005 SIGN UP FOR PLANET E-MAIL Up to Top