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YOU Can Make a Difference! Read How in this eNewsletter
► Everyone who loves the Bay! Register for our 2021 Bay2030 Advocate Program to learn how to protect the Bay
► The 2021 Guardians of Nature Benefit for your Loma Prieta Chapter will take place on Oct 15th. Who's the Honoree, the Guest Speaker, Honorary Hosts? Use the link!
► Everyone who loves the Bay! Take action to help preserve community gardens and create a public park in Daly City
► Who Pays for Sea Level Rise? View the recent NPR multimedia report
► Everyone who loves the Bay! Watch the video and take action to save Newark Wetlands
► Los Altos: Take the newly released Climate Action Plan Survey #2
► Santa Clara County: Share your vision for a climate-friendly Santa Clara by posting to their virtual bulletin board
► Milpitas: call for progressive climate action by taking the city's climate action survey
► Everyone who loves the Bay! How can local cities and residents use nature-based adaptations to sea level rise? Watch recordings of our recent webinar with SF Bay experts and share with your local elected officials!
► But what have we done recently? View the Loma Prieta 2020 Chapter Summary; see how we advanced local environmental protection even during the pandemic. |
Do you care about our San Francisco Bay? Do you want to protect our local nature?
Desiree loved the Bay2030 Advocate Program. Hear from her and consider joining yourself.
The Bay2030 Advocate Program will be a variety of engaging online experiences! In 10 classes and 3 outings (Sep 2021 - Nov 202110), you will hear from experts about the history of the Bay, local wildlife, and nature-based adaptations to sea level rise. You will learn from experienced environmental advocates and elected officials about how you can create positive change in your community.
Space is limited and the program is free so please apply early.
Click here to read about the Bay2030 Advocate Program. Click here to apply.
For more information, contact Susan DesJardin at Susan.DesJardin@sierraclub.org or Gita Dev at Gita.Dev@sierraclub.org. |
Mark Your Calendar: 2021 Guardians of Nature Benefit
Join your Loma Prieta Chapter friends for an online celebration of a California hero, former Sierra Club California Director Kathryn Phillips. California Attorney General Rob Bonta will introduce our honoree, who has been an environmental advocate for four decades and engaged in nearly every significant environmental policy issue impacting our state in the last 20 years. Click here for moreinformation about the event.
2021 Guardians of Nature Celebration will take place on Friday, October 15th, from 7 to 8 p.m. This year's event will again be exclusively online from the comfort of wherever you are, for you to be inspired by and proud of your community.
Sneak preview: we may be able to provide 1 hr of social/networking time before the event and 1/2 hr following the event. Stay Tuned! |
Above photograph courtesy of Debbie Santiago
Help Preserve Community Gardens and Create a Public Park in Daly City!
Support green space and community gardening in Daly City. Jefferson Union High School District plans to bulldoze a 20-year old community garden located at 699 Serramonte Blvd in Daly City and replace it with a 14-story market-rate apartment building. This is the only community garden in Daly City.
Please sign the petition online at change.org/dalycitygarden to help save the garden. For more information on volunteer opportunities contact godsouza@mac.com (no experience necessary). |
| Aug 9: The Loma Prieta Chapter received three Sierra Club National Awards this year, yes three, including one for local environmental champion California Assemblymember Ash Kalra. See videos during our Guardians of Nature Benefit. |
National Public Radio: Who Will Pay To Protect Tech Giants From Rising Seas?
NPR has published a multimedia report featuring new information on the cost of rising sea levels. Major companies including Google and Facebook, are bracing for sea level rise at their headquarters on the San Francisco Bay shoreline. Also being affected are many low-income communities and communities of color residing nearby.
All need protection, and as local cities plan massive levee projects, they're struggling to decide what's fair. Will the cost fall on taxpayers or private landowners who benefit the most? |
| Aug 9: The Loma Prieta Chapter received three Sierra Club National Awards this year, yes three, including two for environmental champions: Loma Prieta Chapter volunteer leader Mike Ferriera (left) and San Mateo County Supervisor Dave Pine. See videos during our Guardians of Nature Benefit. |
Above photograph by Derell Licht of Newark Area 4
Video: One of the Most Biodiverse Ecosystems on the Planet Needs Your Help
The SF Bay wetlands are among the most biodiverse ecosystems on the planet and are in need of protection and restoration. Newark Area 4 is 500 acres of baylands, a mosaic of wetlands and upland habitat. This habitat is home to dozens of species, including the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse and numerous resident and migratory waterbirds. This is also one of the few open spaces along the South SF Bay where wetlands can actually migrate upland as sea levels rise, offering flood protection for Newark and surrounding communities.
You can take action now to save this vulnerable habitat that is threated with destruction.
Click here to watch a 4-minute video about the Newark Wetlands.
Click here to sign the petition.
Click here to read more information. |
| Local representative Kevin Mullin, California Speaker pro Tempore, was honored at Sierra Club California's annual awards ceremony on Aug 8th. Your Chapter Director was honored to be asked to introduce AM Mullin. Photo via Remo event. |
Los Altos, Milpitas, and All Santa Clara County: Climate Action Opportunities
Los Altos: Climate Action Plan Survey #2 Is Now Open
How do you want Los Altos to respond to climate change? This is an opportunity for you to tell Los Altos to take aggressive action to reduce emissions and protect ecosystems.
Click here for the Los Altos the survey
Milpitas: Take the Climate Action Survey and influence your city's Climate Action Plan
Click here for the Milpitas the survey.
Santa Clara County: Share your vision for a climate-friendly Santa Clara in their upcoming Climate Action Plan
Click here to post to Santa Clara County's virtual bulletin board. |
How Can You Protect Your Community from Sea Level Rise?
Learn from the Experts; Videos Now Available!
Thank you to the hundreds who attended the local Sierra Club Webinar Sea Level Rise: Why We Need Nature-Based Adaptation on May 13th, 20th, 27th
To learn yourself, see the video recordings and PowerPoint slides.
Please share with your local elected officials!
Decision-makers, their staff, and the public need more information about why nature-based adaptation to sea level rise is critical for cities around the Bay. This webimar, presented by leading experts in the field, provides a comprehensive discussion of nature-based solutions. |
| Loma Prieta Chapter Awards Ceremony, Aug 9, Gamble Gardens, Palo Alto. See future eNewsletters for details; see videos at 2021 Guardians of Nature Benefit. |
YOU Can Make a Difference for Local Environmental Protection!
Our Environmental Legislative Action Team and Climate Action Leadership Team will show you how.
Your Loma Prieta Chapter is organizing a network of advocacy teams at the city level.
These are city-focused teams with the twin goals of spearheading actions to combat climate change and to conserve and restore natural habitats.
You will be working with city council members, key city staff, county officials, and other environmental activists. We welcome and educate those who are new to climate policy.
For more information, contact Dashiell.Leeds@SierraClub.org |
Photo by Dara Hazeghi, Vice Chair of Loma Prieta Chapter Day Hiking Section and 20s - 30s outing section.
Become A Conservation Leader
Use your passion for the outdoors to ask for the conservation of land and creeks in your city. You can provide the knowledge of where our advocacy would help. We can help you to become a leader to conserve biodiversity in your neighborhood and city. Both the state and the federal government are advancing conservation of 30% of California by 2030, promising habitat and corridors for endangered species.
Contact Gladwyn d’Souza at godsouza@mac.com
Click here for more info from Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland |
Coyote Valley. Photo credit: Derek Neumann
Help Us Tell Our Story by Donating Your Photos
Photos can speak louder than words. Help us powerfully tell our story by donating your photos. We will use them in our publications like The Annual Summary, on invitations, and our Chapter note cards.
If you’d like to share with us your high-resolution photos of local nature, with or without people, please contact our Development Coordinator Justyna Guterman Justyna.guterman@sierraclub.org |
Photo: Joseph Grant County Park, Chapter Director's hike.
Enjoy the Beauty of Spring, and of Spring Cleaning!
Donate a Vehicle to Support the Critical Local Environmental Work of Your Chapter.
It’s easy to give and the pick-up is free; just call 844-6-SIERRA or 844-674-3772 or give online at https://careasy.org/nonprofit/Sierra-Club-Foundation-Loma-Prieta-Chapter.
If you would like to donate a Mazda Miata, please contact your Chapter Director personally. |
This Month in History
August 9th, 1916: establishment of Lessen Volcano National Park, CA
August 16, 1933 (the year that the Loma Prieta Chapter was founded), was the birthdate of Julie Newmar: actress, dancer and singer
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Social Media Channels for the Loma Prieta Chapter
facebook: Chapter, 20s – 30s, Sierra Singles
Loma Prieta Chapter's YouTube; Twitter; Instagram; Spotify MeetUp: Chapter conservation and education meetings (>2700 members),
Hiking events (>5000 members), Singleaires outing section (>1800 members),
Day Hiking section (>1700 members), Guadalupe Regional Group (>500 members),
Peak Climbing (>500 members), Gay & Lesbian Sierrans (>400 members),
Black Mountain Hiking section (>400 members), 20s - 30s (>150 members),
Family Explorers (>100 members) |
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If you feel overwhelmed you can easily manage what you receive. See the simple tutorial |
In Case You Missed It
Click Here to see the previous volumes of our Chapter eNewsletter.
Sierra Club Director of Organizational Transformation Hop Hopkins was featured on an episode of the Learning Lots podcast with none other than Jane Fonda! Give it a listen and share with your friends.
Developer Abandons Keystone XL Pipeline Project, Ending Decade-Long Battle
Some Climate Activists Say We Should Worry Only About People, Not Polar Bears. Do We Have to Choose?
Edmonton's New Parking Rule is an Urban Planner's Dream
Is fare and equal access for all rate payers important to you? Learn SB61of2 and PCIA rates.
What has your support done for local environmental protection? See the Loma Prieta Chapter's 2020 Annual Summary |
It is a scientific fact that the occasional contemplation of natural scenes of an impressive character, particularly if this contemplation occurs in connection with relief from ordinary cares, change of air and change of habits, is favorable to the health and vigor of men and especially to the health and vigor of their intellect beyond any other conditions which can be offered them, that it not only gives pleasure for the time being but increases the subsequent capacity for happiness and the means of securing happiness.
Frederick Law Olmsted, the landscape architect who designed New York’s Central Park, in an 1865 treatise on national parks
at the request of the Board of Yosemite Commissioners. |
YOU can help assure "the health and vigor" of our local residents when you support your Loma Prieta Chapter.See what we did together in 2020. Happy Trails, |
James Eggers, Director
Sierra Club, Loma Prieta Chapter |
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Thank you to our 2020 Guardians of Nature Benefit SponsorsBe a Sponsor of the 2021 Guardians of Nature Benefit. |
| The COVID-19 crisis has not passed and continues to disproportionately harm Black, Indigenous, and Latinx people and other communities of color. The pandemic has revealed how the communities hardest hit are often the same communities that suffer from high levels of pollution and poor access to healthcare. The fight for environmental justice cannot be separated from the fight for racial justice. |
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