Dear Friend,
As I think about the year that is ending, I’m deeply grateful for your foresight,
commitment, and generosity in 2022, which has enabled us to champion regional environmental protection and restoration for ourselves and for generations to come. Thank you for standing with us to ensure that our demands for clean air, water and land are heard in the right places and at the right times.
Our environment has never needed us more than now, so I ask you to please take this moment to renew your last gift or even increase it. Your donation will ensure that we keep our regional environment a priority, regardless of those in power.
We do not accept funding from state and local governments; we depend on individual donors like you. While only a sliver of your membership dues to Sierra Club National is returned to your Loma Prieta Chapter, 100% of your gift to us will be spent to continue local environmental work. In 2022, your donation enabled us to accomplish much.
We have urged local cities to meet climate change by updating their Climate Action Plans to reduce greenhouse gasses and restore biodiversity. In only three years, two-thirds (28) of the cities in our Chapter have adopted building reach codes for all-electric new construction. These policies have made our region a climate leader, and we will hold local jurisdictions accountable for the necessary goals which they have set.
Along the entire San Francisco Bay shoreline, we are an influential voice in regional
development and flood protection plans. In partnership with our sister chapters and in collaboration with local environmental justice organizations, we aim to conserve 30 percent of state lands and waters by 2030, bringing critical attention to climate-driven shoreline contamination threats and plans for sea level rise resilience.
Through workshops and webinars, we have helped more than one hundred community leaders and volunteers to better understand and navigate the public decision-making and environmental review processes, including addressing such concerns as the health and environmental impacts of light pollution on both humans and wildlife.
We have expanded our Outings Program to include a new series of outings, especially for
veterans and their families. This program teaches veterans how to use hiking poles to increase mobility and confidence so that they can enjoy the great outdoors for better mental, physical, and emotional health.
We haven’t stopped campaigning for the protection of local wildlife and their habitats,
including Coyote Valley, the last unpaved valley in our region, and Juristac (aka Sargent
Ranch), which is both a critical open space and a sacred indigenous site. We have also filed a
lawsuit against the City of San Jose for violating their own city ordinance by permitting what
will be the City’s largest office building just on the lip of the Guadalupe River, with no buffer
to protect this precious natural treasure.
What we choose to do today will determine the ability of our environment and people to
survive and even thrive in the future. When you renew your donation, you know that we will be unwavering in our efforts to achieve the ecological goals we share.
Sincerely,
James Eggers Chapter Director