April 2026 update from your local Heartlands Group
April 10, 2026
Join our upcoming activities!
Happy Earth Month!
In this newsletter:
🙌 Thank you for showing up this past month! 🗓️ Upcoming events with the Heartlands Group 🌿 Become an Outings Leader with Sierra Club 📣 Keep spreading the word - Protect Heartlands Area Water 📚 Come to our virtual Book Club 🫶 How to get involved with our activities this year
Happy reading! As always, if you have any questions about our work in and around the Indy area, please don't hesitate to reach out.
Rebecca Dien-Johns Chapter Digital Strategist Sierra Club Hoosier Chapter
🙌Thank you for showing up this past month 🙌
(L) Organizers say around 1,700 attended the Noblesville No Kings event. Photo: Colleen Curtin. (R) Volunteer Leader, Chessa, and Outreach Coordinator, Colleen at No Kings. Photo: Hamilton County Democracy Coalition.
In March Heartlanders met up at No Kings in Indianapolis, Noblesville, and Lebanon. Members made signs, tabled, and shared our petition to protect Eagle Creek. No Kings III was the largest day of protest in US history, and you were part of that! Heartlanders also met in Indianapolis to chat about reorganizing the Heartlands Group.
In April Hoosier Chapter Director, Robyn Skuya-Boss will stop by Heartlands Monthly Meeting to explain the process for reorganization and next steps. Please be sure to attend and help to ensure the Heartlands nearly 50 year legacy continues for the next generation of Central Indiana environmentalists!
Colleen Curtin Outreach Coordinator
🗓️ Upcoming Events with the Heartlands Group 🗓️
☕Heartlands Group Hamilton County Meet Up Tuesday April 21st at 6:00pm ET at MOTW Coffee and Pastries 12761 Old Meridian St, Carmel, IN 46032
📆 Heartlands Group Monthly Meeting Monday April 27th from 7-8:00pm ET hybrid online via Zoom or in person at the Indiana Interchurch Center 1100 W 42nd St Suite 315, Indianapolis, IN 46208
💧Water Issues Team (WIT) Meeting Monday April 27th from 6-7:00pm ET hybrid online via Zoom or in person at the Indiana Interchurch Center 1100 W 42nd St Suite 315, Indianapolis, IN 46208
☕Heartlands Group Boone County Meet Up Thursday April 30th at 6:00pm ET Lebanon Public Library 104 E. Washington St. Lebanon, IN 46052
Other activities are taking place in our region including the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission’s Affordability Listening Session happening on April 20, at 6 PM at Ivy Tech.
See sc.org/hcevents for more info and to register, and for our full list of events and outings around the state.
🌿 Become an Outings Leader with Sierra Club 🌿
We welcome new folks who would like to join our team of Outings Leaders. No matter your background or experience, we’d love to hear from you.
Come to our Sierra Club Hoosier Chapter: Summer Outing Leader Training Orientation on May 11 to find out more!
📣 Keep Spreading the Word 📣 Protect Heartlands Area Water
Thank you to all those who have already signed our petition to let Mayor Hogsett know that you want him to protect Eagle Creek and our drinking water, and to call for an independent study of the Citizens-Lebanon Water Supply Program!
If you haven’t yet signed, we are calling on the City of Indianapolis, as the owner of Eagle Creek, to use its voice and power to protect our ecosystem and water supply.
Please help spread the word by sending this link to your friends: sc.org/indymayor.
Attend the #SaveEagleCreek Info Session
What: Zionsville/Whitestown #SaveEagleCreek Info Session When: Tuesday, April 14 at 6:30 PM Where: Zionsville Branch - Hussey- Mayfield Memorial Public Library (250 N 5th St, Zionsville, IN 46077)
Learn more about how the secretive plans to connect Eagle Creek and Citizens Energy Group's drinking water reservoirs to the over 9,000 acre LEAP industrial site will impact Eagle Creek and Central Indiana residents. Current plans would return 25 million gallons a day of treated wastewater into Eagle Creek near the mudflats which serve as critical wildlife habitat.
Guest Speaker: LouAnn Baker, Eagle Creek Park Foundation Advisory Committee.
Join us for the 2nd year of our Sierra Club Hoosier Chapter Book Club! This year we have some fantastic reading selections as well as opportunities for members to submit suggestions for future books. Have a book you want to see us read this year? Submit your recommendation here or via email to colleen.curtin@sierraclub.org.
Our Earth Month Book Club selection, voted on by Sierra Club Hoosier Chapter members across the state, is The Insect Epiphany: How Our Six-Legged Allies Shape Human Culture by Barrett Klein. April Book Club is Tuesday 4/28. Register online to get additional Book Club updates and the link for the discussion!
Can’t make it in April? Join us in May for The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle and again in June for our Pride Month read Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian.
Gentle reminder that it is totally okay to show up to Book Club having read all of the book, some of the book, thought about reading the book, or looking for a pitch to sell you on reading the book. ALL are welcome! Also a reminder that the goal of this space is to facilitate conversation and there is not a quiz at the end or an objective beyond learning more about issues we care about and cultivating community with one another.
We look forward to the opportunity to connect, share about, and reflect on the issues, themes, and excerpts that resonated with you in the book.
Colleen Curtin Outreach Coordinator
About the Heartlands Group
The Heartlands Group serves the greater Indianapolis area. It's part of the Hoosier Chapter of the Sierra Club, hosting Sierra Club outings, hikes, conservation education and sustainability events in Central Indiana. Our mission is to leave a better environment for future generations.
To get involved with our activities this year, email Chapter Outreach Coordinator, Colleen Curtin: colleen.curtin@sierraclub.org
Join us on the trail! You can find all Sierra Club hikes and outings in Indiana at sc.org/hcevents
