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YOU Can Make a Difference! Read How in This eNewsletter
►Cast your vote online for Loma Prieta Chapter & Group Executive Committee elections.
►Maximize your support for local work! Triple your environmental impact today with this limited time offer.
► Protect San Francisco Bay; get involved with our Bay Alive Campaign.
► Take action: Amazon-Style Warehouse/Distribution Center Threatens Coyote Valley.
► New Short Film Profiles Efforts to Save Newark Wetlands from Development
► San Jose Becomes Largest City in the Nation to Adopt a Carbon Neutral by 2030 Target.
► Join our book discussion! Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts In Your Yard.
► Read the letter submitted by Loma Prieta Chapter to Los Gatos School Board opposing the proposal to cover playgrounds with plastic grass.
► Watch the recording of the "Drought, Water Supply" panel hosted by the Almaden Valley Community Association.
► Nature makes kids happier, healthier and smarter. See the Children & Nature Network Research Library for many articles to help children in your life.
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| Photo by Charles Schafer, Loma Prieta Chapter Executive Committee Member and Chapter Outings Leader. |
Cast your vote online for Loma Prieta Chapter & Group Executive Committee elections!
It's time again for you to VOTE for the next at-large members of the Loma Prieta Chapter Executive Committee. Those elected will start their two-year term in January 2022. You will also cast votes for your Group’s executive committee elections.
Sierra Club, the nation’s largest and oldest grassroots environmental organization, is proudly democratic and member-driven. The at-large delegates you elect, along with the Group delegates direct the work of the Loma Prieta Chapter. You can read executive committee candidate profiles online here.
Ballots must be received by Tuesday, November 30, 2021.
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Maximize your support for local work! Triple your environmental impact today with this limited time offer.
Right now a generous donor named Mark Ferguson will triple your monthly donation to the Loma Prieta Chapter. We hope you will consider becoming a sustaining donor with this golden opportunity to maximize your support for local work. You can donate online here.
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Take Action: Learn how you can get involved with the Bay Alive Campaign
The San Francisco Bay is a vital asset we all share. Through the Bay Alive Campaign, we’re cooperating across three Sierra Club Chapters that surround the Bay and building lasting relationships with community based organizations.
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Visit the new Bay Alive website to learn more about our education and training programs and local campaigns.
Get connected to the cause by signing up for the Loma Prieta Chapter’s Bay Alive campaign updates. We’ll keep you up to date (but not too often!) on what’s going on in the campaign.
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| Trucks outside a giant distribution center. Photo courtesy of Protect Coyote Valley. |
Take Action: Amazon-Style Warehouse/Distribution Center Threatens Coyote Valley
In an alarming 5-4 vote on Wednesday, October 27, San Jose’s Planning Commission decided against protecting Coyote Valley. Rejecting the recommendations from Planning staff and the 36-member General Plan Task Force, they voted to recommend against changing the land use in North Coyote Valley from industrial development to open space and agriculture.
It is up to the San Jose City Council to make the final decision about the fate of Coyote Valley on Tuesday, November 16. Please email the Council now and ask them to finally protect Coyote Valley by approving the staff recommendations. |
| Photo courtesy of Save Newark Wetlands. |
New Short Film Profiles Efforts to Save Newark Wetlands from Development
This month, a new short film “Bay Rising: Voices for Newark Area 4” was released by videographer Mark Weaver, profiling region-wide efforts to protect Newark Area 4, a 500-acre undeveloped mosaic of wetlands and upland habitat adjacent to the Don Edwards SF Bay National Wildlife Refuge, which is at risk from a proposed “executive” housing development.
Watch the full-length film online and then, if you haven’t yet, please sign the petition to protect Newark Area 4 and include these lands in the Don Edwards SF Bay National Wildlife Refuge!
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San Jose Becomes Largest City in the Nation to Adopt a Carbon Neutral by 2030 Target “This target may be called aggressive by some but we would call it necessary. The resolution before you today is actually the normal, expected behavior in response to a climate crisis of this urgency and magnitude.”- Dashiell Leeds, Conservation Assistant, Loma Prieta Chapter Read more We will continue to push San Jose to take strong action to protect ecosystems and reduce emissions. To achieve this 2030 goal, San Jose will update its Climate Smart Plan to include stronger fossil fuel reduction measures. |
Join our book discussion! Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts In Your Yard
Join us for our book group discussion on Saturday, November 20th at 10 AM.
Nature's Best Hope discusses how people everywhere can transform their yards into wildlife habitats and why this is the most practical as well as the most effective way to save many species from extinction. You will learn how you can become a backyard conservationist.
Contact Gladwyn D'Souza at godsouza@mac.com for meeting details and discussion questions.
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Read the letter submitted by Loma Prieta Chapter to Los Gatos School Board opposing the proposal to cover playgrounds with plastic grass
Pam Bond, a Los Gatos resident shared the following with us:
"The Los Gatos Union School District recommended all elementary fields should remain natural grass in lieu of plans for synthetic turf! One mom next to me whispered that she'd rather that kids play in dirt than on artificial grass. Another thinks it was your letter that changed the direction of the staff recommendation because they were going to push for plastic but after your letter was received, their position changed.
With your help, we're setting the record straight that synthetic turf should never be an option for schools. Thank you!"
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Watch the recording of the "Drought, Water Supply" panel hosted by the Almaden Valley Community Association
Where does water come from and why the emergency? Is this water shortage emergency a short or long-term problem? Listen in to the expert panel to hear the answers to these questions and more. |
Nature makes kids happier, healthier and smarter.
Regular time in nature is essential for children’s healthy development.
See the Children & Nature Network Research Library
Our friends at the Children & Nature Network (C&NN) curate and summarize peer-reviewed scientific literature that makes the case for children and nature. Curation of research is guided by C&NN Scientific Advisory Council, a multi-disciplinary team of experts who bring diverse perspectives to our work. You can access and search their Research Library.
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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 Loma Prieta Chapter's Conservation Assistant dashiell.leeds@sierraclub.org. |
Enjoy the Beauty of Autumn, and Autumn 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.
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In Case You Missed It
Click Here to see previous volumes of our Chapter eNewsletter.
Look For These Bay Area Species in Fall 2021.
Redwood City has introduced amazing rebate programs for building electrification, solar installation, electric vehicle chargers, and more!
Join the Youth Climate Action Bootcamp! Apply now for the fall 2021 program.
Coming Soon: Salmon People Project documentary highlights the current bleak situation of salmon and shows a pathway to recovery.
Milpitas, call for progressive climate action by taking the City's climate action survey.
Deb Haaland, A Living Testament: The path to becoming the nation's first Native American as Secretary of the Department of Interior.
Kelp Forests Surge Back on Parts of the North Coast.
How can local cities and residents use nature-based adaptations to sea level rise? Watch recordings of our recent webinar series with SF Bay experts and share with your local elected officials!
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
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Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.
~ Herman Hesse |
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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