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YOU Can Make a Difference; Read How in This eNewsletter!
► Choose the leaders of the nation's most powerful grassroots environmental organization! Cast Your Vote in the 2022 election for the Sierra Club’s National Board of Directors.
► Learn from the best at the Loma Prieta Chapter Basic Backpacking Online Course
► Volunteer for the Loma Prieta Chapter Development Team!
► Help "Oaks Older Than California" Threatened in County Park
► Mark your Calendar for Supervisor Simitian's Annual Lehigh Public Meeting on March 2nd
► Reserve Your Spot for Acterra Plant Based Induction Cooking Class on March 8th
► Help San Jose trees. Why are San Jose’s trees disappearing? City loses hundreds of acres each year.
► Virtually visit Alum Rock Park with Coyote Creek Watershed Tours on March 16
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You can help decide the direction of the nation’s largest grassroots environmental organization by voting in the Sierra Club’s annual Board of Directors election. National Board members are elected for three-year terms.
The 2022 election for the Sierra Club’s National Board of Directors begins in March.
You may vote by paper ballot or electronically. All Sierra Club members will receive a ballot, and further election information will be posted on the chapter website.
The Loma Prieta Chapter recommends a vote for:
Aaron Mair (NY)
Maya Khosla (CA)
Kathryn Bartholomew (NY)
Michael Dorsey (MI)
in the upcoming election for the Sierra Club's Board of Directors |
Loma Prieta Chapter Basic Backpacking Online Course
The 2022 course is offered as a four-part online symposium followed by a day of outdoor instruction, demonstration, and hiking. The course consists of four 90-minute online sessions, an in-person Saturday demonstration and group day hike, and an optional overnight class trip.
The online portion will take place each Wednesday evening in April. The in-person demonstration and day hike will take place on Saturday, May 7 at Huddart Park. The course trip will be Saturday - Sunday, May 14-15 at Henry Coe State Park (group size limited).
See more information and register online. |
Use Your Skills to Protect our Local Environment by Joining the Loma Prieta Chapter Development Team!
2022 Benefit Silent Auction Volunteer
Help protect our local environment by helping organize a silent auction for our annual benefit. You will support our silent auction committee chair in procuring gifts and conducting the auction.
Volunteer Donor Steward
Join our development team and enjoy extra practice in gratitude. You will support the development coordinator in thanking our donors for their incredible support that enables us to protect our local environment. You will also learn elements of the Salesforce database. The expected time commitment is approximately two hours per week for at least four months.
For more information, please contact justyna.guterman@sierraclub.org. |
(Left) photo by Marsha Cohen. (Right) photo courtesy of Dave Poeschel. |
Oaks Older Than California Threatened in County Park: Act Now
A conflict is developing because aspects of the "reimagining" of Flood County Park require removal of trees older than our state.
San Mateo County Parks has been working on "reimagining" Flood County Park since 2015. It is now in the "realize" stage, https://parks.smcgov.org/realize-flood-park, but you can still participate in the planning process by attending community meetings and/or sign the petition below.
If you have not done so already, please sign the petition here, and share with others.
For more information, contact Dave Poeschel at dave.poeschel@gmail.com. |
Reserve Your Spot for Acterra's Plant Based Induction Cooking Class on March 8th
The theme is "Cozy Comfort," so kick back and indulge in favorite foods — versions that are 100% plant-based. On Chef Kelvin's menu are Spinach Pesto Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup.
When: Tuesday, March 8, 2022 at 6:30 p.m.
See more information and register online. |
Ugly Food Fight: Misfits Market, Imperfect Foods, and the Battle Against Food Waste
Both online grocers deliver salvaged produce. How good are the savings for the planet and your budget?
Read more online here.
Removing wasted food from the waste stream and recovering it for food insecure communities is already the law in CA. See for example SB1383 in San Mateo County:
https://www.smcsustainability.org/sb-1383-calrecycle-organics/
To get involved with SB1383 implementation in your city contact Gladwyn d’Souza at godsouza@mac.com. |
The Fight for Environmental Justice and San Francisco Bay
Shoreline communities primarily populated by historically disenfranchised BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) are suffering the worst impacts from climate change-induced sea level rise. Government-led exclusionary housing and redlining, coupled with disinvestment and inaction, left these communities vulnerable to industrial and military-grade toxic and radioactive waste exposure.
Read more online Our Bay Alive Campaign is collaborating with the SF Bay Shoreline Contamination Cleanup Coalition for the cleanup of all toxic and radioactive contamination near the SF Bay shoreline. Learn more in their 2-day contamination cleanup workshop: Workshop Day 1: Day 1 Recording Workshop Day 2: Day 2 Recording |
New research finds that gas stoves emit methane, a potent greenhouse gas, even when turned off.
This adds to the debate over electrifying homes. Read more online here.
Methane gas leaks are quite normal because of the highly pressurized system and can not be fixed. Getting rid of methane is the solution.
If you're interested in supporting the Loma Prieta Chapter's work to help local cities move from gas to electricity from renewable sources, contact dashiell.leeds@sierraclub.org. |
Photos courtesy of Gladwyn d’Souza. |
Why are San Jose’s trees disappearing? City loses hundreds of acres each year.
Trees offer a plethora of benefits, such as lowering temperatures, filtering the air, reducing flooding and providing shelter for seniors walking down a street and children playing tag. Those who live in areas with little tree coverage are more vulnerable to pollution, extreme heat and potential health problems, according to experts.
We need volunteers with a passion for trees to do letter writing, and engage with a city's planning process on behalf of trees lost to project development. No experience necessary. To get involved contact Gladwyn d’Souza at godsouza@mac.com. |
Confronting Drought With the Tools of Nature
There are successful models for leveraging natural systems to improve water quality and supplies, enhance biodiversity and blunt the ravages of wildfires. There’s even something we can learn from beavers.Nature Based Solutions should involve restoration of the natural course of floodplains and use Beaver Related Restoration for small, leaky, temporary dams in degraded stream systems to create subsurface water retention, natural firebreaks, wildlife refuges, and alleviate the impacts of post-fire flooding.Read more online |
Photo courtesy of Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful. |
Virtually visit Alum Rock Park with Coyote Creek Watershed Tours on March 16
Alum Rock Park is San Jose's oldest park and features many hidden treasures. From its 13-miles of trails from the creek to the top of the Diablo Range and its mineral springs, this regional park is a special place.
On this virtual tour hosted by Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful, you will see many parts of the park and focus on some of the special natural elements of the park, such as the unique plants and butterflies that need them, to the bobcats, birds, and salamanders, hiding in the brush. Register here. |
The Missing Link in Biden’s Climate Agenda: Letting Older Trees Grow
A coalition of more than 70 groups launched a new campaign called the Climate Forests Campaign. They are calling on the Biden administration to take executive action to protect mature trees and forests on federal lands, which are critical in the fight against climate change.
This comes just a year after President Joe Biden signed an executive order, Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, which set out a path to achieve net-zero emissions, economy-wide, by 2050.
Read more online
Visit the Loma Prieta Chapter website to learn more about our Forest Protection Committee efforts. |
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. |
Do You Need Space to Spread Your Wings?
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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#3. This is no way to be human: we now occupy a nearly natureless world.
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#1. One of the single largest murder rates of any wildlife species anywhere in the world: "Can Citizen Scientists Prevent Another Pacific Newt Massacre?" |
Social Media Channels for the Loma Prieta Chapter
facebook: Chapter, 20s – 30s, Sierra Singles
Loma Prieta Chapter's YouTube; Twitter; Instagram; Spotify |
Historic Dates
Feb 20, 1902, Ansel Adams was born
Mar 1, 1872, the first National Park, Yellowstone, was established by President Grant
Mar 2, 1933, the original film version King Kong was released three months before Loma Prieta Chapter's founding.
Mar 4, 1933, President Roosevelt, on his first day in office, appointed Francis Perkins as Secretary of Labor, becoming the first female member of the US Cabinet. |
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a spectulator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
~ Henry David Thoreau |
James Eggers, Director
Sierra Club, Loma Prieta Chapter |
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Thank you to our 2021 Guardians of Nature Benefit Sponsorsto be a 2022 Guardians of Nature Benefit Sponsor, contact Chapter Development Coordinator Justyna |
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| 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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