Cities/Transportation/Climate Change
September 25, 2016
Many cities around the world are re-designing their transportation infrastructure to emphasize walking, biking, and transit, to both address climate change and to create more livable, people friendly communities. Fossil fuel based transportation...
Follets Island Follies?
September 25, 2016
Fourteen of us were standing in the middle of a full parking lot, school buses were unloading excited students, cars and people were moving in and out of the parking lot and heading in all directions, rain was threatening, people were looking at me...
2016 Annual Auction
September 25, 2016
Our Annual Auction and holiday gathering will take place this year at our December General Meeting on Thursday, December 8. This is one of the fundraising events for the Houston Group and features both a live and silent auction. All proceeds from...
Sierra Club Provides Input for Funding of Galveston Bay Estuary Program Subcommittees
September 22, 2016
The Houston Sierra Club (HSC) provided input to the Galveston Bay Estuary Program (GBEP) about funding for its Subcommittees so they can implement research, monitoring, water and sediment quality, natural resource, and public education projects....
Sierra Club Comments on Sam Houston National Forest Project
September 22, 2016
Sierra Club Comments on Compartments 48, 49, and 53 Project in Sam Houston National Forest
The Houston Regional Group and Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club (Sierra Club) submitted scoping comments to the U.S. Forest Service (FS) for the...
Mattress Recycling!
September 22, 2016
Old mattresses are bulky and take up lots of room in land fills. And 90% of mattress materials are recyclable: polyurethane foam, cotton, steel coils, and wood. Many cities are now diverting old mattresses from the waste stream, and recycling...
Bayou Banner September 2016
September 8, 2016
Welcome to the Houston Sierra Club online Bayou Banner newsletter for September 2016. Click the title to see the news this month.
Houston Group Executive Committee Election 2016
August 26, 2016
(To read the full story, please click on the article headline above)
Each December the Houston Group holds an election to fill positions on the Group’s nine member Executive Committee (Excom). The Houston Sierra Club is now soliciting nominations...
Climate Reality Project: Climate Change is Here and so are the Solutions
August 26, 2016
On August 16th through 18th, the Climate Reality Project came to Texas, training hundreds of people from all over the United States and the world to be advocates on behalf of the climate and to empower others with knowledge to create a culture of...
Good Videos on the Glass Recycling Process
August 22, 2016
Here are a few well edited videos that illustrate and explain the glass recycling process. Advances in glass sorting technologies...