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Programs, Committees, and Teams

In addition to our featured objectives, the Sierra Club addresses numerous issues of environmental concern through the following programs and volunteer committees, or teams.

Programs

Building Bridges to the Outdoors

The Sierra Club's Building Bridges to the Outdoors Project's goal is to give every child in America an outdoor experience...leave no child inside!

Chill the Drills! Protect America's Arctic

We don't need to spoil America's last great wilderness in the pursuit of oil and other fossil fuels.

Clean Water

For decades, the Clean Water Act protected the Nation's surface water bodies from unregulated pollution and rescued them from the crisis status they were in during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Now these vital protections are being lost.

EcoCentro

El Sierra Club en Español! Bienvenidos a Ecocentro, un recurso del Sierra Club para la comunidad latina sobre el medio ambiente y la salud de su familia.

Electric Vehicles

The future is here with electric vehicles! Automobiles, above all else, represent America's addiction to dirty oil.

Environmental Education

We must make sure that youth are taught about how humanity impacts the planet, and what we can do to create a sustainable future.

Environmental Justice

To fulfill our mission of environmental protection and a sustainable future for the planet, we must ensure social justice and human rights.

Environmental Law Program

Our docket covers the entire range of environmental issues, from local fights over ill-planned sprawl to cases of national significance on clean air, clean water and wilderness.

Global Population

Family planning ensures healthy families and a healthy environment.

Great Lakes

One fifth of the world's fresh surface water supply and drinking water to over 42 million people!

Green Jobs

Green jobs that will fight global warming, move America toward energy independence, and end our harmful dependence on fossil fuels. We are calling for better jobs and a better energy future for our children.

International Climate Program

Supporting global efforts to halt climate change while ensuring clean energy access for all.

Military Families and Veterans Initiative

Connecting military families with the healing powers of our natural heritage.

Responsible Trade

Free trade can be transformed into responsible trade, protecting our rich natural heritage and our children's future.

Sierra Club Green Home

Sierra Club Green Home is a destination website designed to educate Americans on how to make their homes more energy efficient, environmentally sustainable, and healthy.

Sierra Sportsmen

The Sierra Sportsmen Network is a countrywide, thousands-strong group of conservation-minded anglers and hunters. Since the Sierra Club was founded in 1892, hunters and anglers have played a leadership role in our work to preserve the wild places and wildlife all Americans enjoy.

Toxics

Toxic chemical pollution threatens every American family and every community.

Water Sentinels

The Sierra Club's Water Sentinels program trains volunteers to collect water samples and monitor data with the goal of getting America's waterways cleaned up.

Zero Waste

Promotes Zero Waste as a design principle for the 21st century and producer responsibility-based recycling as the means for achieving a deep transformation of production and consumption.

Committees/Teams

Borderlands

From San Diego, CA, to Brownsville, TX, the nearly 700-mile-long border wall has fractured communities and drastically altered the lives of countless individuals. Help protect Borderlands from the Border Wall.

Canyons of the Colorado River Committee

Works for change in the management of the Colorado River so as to restore damaged natural environments and sustain human communities at risk because of flawed planning, global warming, and increasing water use.

Corporate Accountability Committee

Facilitates the Club's response to the corporate abuse of power and its advocacy of enforceable measures to ensure corporate accountability in relation to the environment, communities and public health.

Forest Certification Committee

Helps members distinguish between industry-based certification programs that 'greenwash' industrial forestry practices, and those that represent real progress toward sustainability and conservation.

Genetic Engineering Committee

The ecological implications of crashing through the species barrier by combining completely different species is unknown. This team is working to preserve biodiversity by stopping the outdoor release of these corporate-patented life forms.

National Marine Committee

Strives to limit human use and abuse of the ocean's rich diversity of life, including extraction of living and non-living resources, pollution, and habitat destruction.

Recreation Issues Committee

Assists volunteers, build networks and help coordinate the Club's conservation efforts on recreation issues.

Rivers Committee

Provides assistance to volunteers in addressing river issues, build networks of activists working on these issues, and coordinate the Club's conservation efforts on these issues.

Sustainable Consumption Committee

Explores how to best minimize the use of natural resources and the byproducts of toxic materials, waste and pollution, involved in everyday consumer choices.



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