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

WHAT WE DO BEST The Power of Many A Sampler of the Sierra Club’s Most Effective Campaigns, Strategies, and Leaders in 2005 by John Byrne Barry A letter to the editor in my local paper this past fall took issue with someone asserting that Rosa Parks was an example of the power of one person making a difference. That misses the point, the writer said. Sure, Rosa Parks made a difference, but she was part of a movement. She was an organizer. She and her husband had worked to register African American voters in Alabama. Her legacy, the writer said, was “unity, solidarity, and the power of many.” I mention this because we’re organizing this year-in-review issue of the Planet around a theme of “what we do best,” and though we’re happy to celebrate individual accomplishments, we want to focus especially on those activists who have inspired others and strengthened our movement. So when we highlight Lisa Hellman of Orange County’s Inner City Outings group, it’s not because she’s led more than half of the group’s outings for more than two years, but because she’s been working hard recruiting and training new leaders so the program’s success doesn’t depend on her. When we tell the story of high school activist Emily Duncanson’s role in protecting the Arctic, it’s not just her poster-making ability, but how she reinvigorated the environmental club at her high school. No need to save your applause till the end. WHAT WE DO BEST How the Arctic Was Saved (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 That’ 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 Up to Top