Executive Committee Elections

Stuart Levy has been with the Sierra Club since 2005, with the lively and
welcoming members of the Prairie Group Executive Committee for almost as long,
and is currently its group chair.  He's enjoyed being involved in lobbying for Sierra Club issues since 2015.

He's interested in water use, opposing sprawl, environmental justice, and energy conservation and supply. (How different would our cities and our lives be if we used energy at a quarter of our current rate?) He fears that Derrick Jensen's bleak view of our industrial civilization is correct.
He's also a computer graphics programmer, sometime anti-war activist, and amateur astronomer.

The Sierra Club is a special organization, because we members direct it. The Club succeeds by enabling us to make a difference for the environment. I have served on the executive committee of the Northwest Cook County Group since 2000. I am also the group’s political chair. The political committee works to endorse and elect pro-environment candidates. I am also political chair for the Illinois Chapter and participate in the Grassroots Lobbying Network.

I came to activism through ecological restoration. I have volunteered with the Poplar Creek PrairieStewards since 1989. In 1995 Cook County halted all restoration work when a few residents raised objections. I saw that politicians cannot make good policy unless we talk with them. So I started talking. It took a decade to whittle away the restrictions, but the county board now knows something about protecting and restoring local nature.
Please vote for me. Thanks!

I would like to serve another term as an elected representative on the Illinois Chapter's Executive Committee. Bringing together representatives from the Chapter’s 14 groups and members of key Chapter committees, the bi-monthly meetings continue to expand my grasp of projects and issues that local groups might pursue to help shape their own group’s work. And because I serve on several other Chapter-level committees (the Clean Power Team, the Political Committee, the Lobby Team, and, most recently, the newly formed Membership Committee), I believe I can bring to my role a helpful context for the kind of issues the Ex Com is asked to weigh in on.

Mavis has been a member of Sierra Club since 1986. She has been on the Executive committee for Valley of the Fox for almost twenty years, and the chair for 12 years. Her biggest priorities for VOF have been team building with her executive committee, continuing our programs, supporting our political committee, and our outings. She is especially interested in renewable energy and promoting solar and is a member of the Clean Energy Team. She has been on the Chapter Excom for about ten years.

Mavis has been a leader in our sustainability community here in the Fox Valley for over thirty years. She has kept the Aurora GreenFest going strong for over fifteen years, and was the driving force in the creation of Sustainable Aurora, the mayor’s sustainability advisory board.

Mavis was elected to the Kane County Board and the Kane County Forest Preserve four years ago. She serves as the chair of the Energy and Environmental Committee for the County and had the thrill of a lifetime in getting a 2-megawatt solar field installed on Kane County property.
She holds a master’s degree in Sustainable Management from the University of Wisconsin.

Mavis’ motto is “It’s not too late to save the planet, but we better hurry up!”