YOU Can Make a Difference; Read How in This eNewsletter
► Join your community at the Guardians of Nature Benefit, returning this fall with an in person option, and celebrating Peninsula Open Space Trust's President Walter T. Moore.
► Ride to the Future! San Jose Clean Energy is hosting an electric vehicle test drive at Eastridge Mall!
► Help make important decisions for our local environment by joining the Loma Prieta Chapter Executive Committee.
► See a map of hazardous sites and communities at risk from rising seas.
► Support strengthening important oversight of a major contamination threat in our shoreline communities. See below.
► Take a hike! Here's what's available with your chapter.
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Your Loma Prieta Chapter's Guardians of Nature Benefit returns this fall
and will celebrate Peninsula Open Space Trust's President Walter T. Moore.
During his tenure, President Moore has led POST to permanently protect and restore thousands of acres of local open space, including Coyote Valley, one of our Sierran community's most beloved hiking spots. You can read more about our honoree and our upcoming Guardians of Nature Benefit for your Loma Prieta Chapter! We hope that you will join us!
Find more about the 2022 Guardians of Nature Benefit on the event's website.
Purchase your ticket(s) here. See sponsorship opportunities here.
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Celebrating the 50-Year Anniversary of the Don Edwards Wildlife Refuge
50 years ago, on June 30th 1972, the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge was established.
The refuge is located at the center of the recovering San Francisco Bay and protects crucial habitat for wildlife species.
On October 8th, come celebrate the refuge's 50 year birthday party hosted by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. The event will be an open house, with time to explore the Refuge, learn about the history of the Refuge, join a Nature Walk, food, music, and fun for all!
Click here to learn more.
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Looking to Electrify but Don't Know Where to Start? Begin Here!
The Switch is On provides the resources you'll need to electrify your home, click here!. Explore the benefits of an all-electric home and learn about how you can swap from gas to electric!
Incentives are available! Click here to learn more. This tool allows you to find the right incentives that apply to you. |
Are you a potential candidate for the Loma Prieta Chapter Executive Committee?
Call for Nominations: Loma Prieta Chapter Executive Committee 2-year term 2023-2024
Contact the Nominating Committee at MichaelJFerreira@gmail.com.
Did you know that the Sierra Club is the largest nationwide volunteer-driven environmental organization in the United States? To better connect with our grassroots, our Club has been carefully organized into bylaws-governed chapters.
The Loma Prieta Chapter is one of 13 Chapters in California, each of which is administered by an elected Executive Committee composed of environmentally conscious Club members willing to provide leadership as we pursue the Club’s goals at the local level.
Executive Committee members should be willing to assist our chapter in various leadership areas. Executive Committee members are expected to spend a minimum of 5-10 hours a month.
- Mike Ferreira, Chair of Chapter Nominations Committee
Learn more about our current Executive Committee members.
Read more about the nominating process.
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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 Organizer dashiell.leeds@sierraclub.org. |
Sea level rise poses a dual contamination threat ...
from both surface flooding and groundwater rise below the surface that could reach as far as three miles inland from the edge of the Bay, pushing up and spreading toxins along the way. More than 900 hazardous sites across the state could be impacted by the end of the century. In California, communities of color are five times more likely than the general population to live within a half mile of a toxic site that could flood by 2050.
See a map of hazardous sites and communities at risk from rising seas.
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Water Board takes aim at shoreline landfills at risk from sea level rise
California's Regional Water Quality Control Board issued a tentative order imposing heightened sea level rise planning requirements on 16 additional shoreline landfills, ten of which are in our Chapter region! (17 sites are already subject to that heightened scrutiny.) Under the new order, the identified landfills would have to do a vulnerability assessment and submit a Long-term Flood Protection plan addressing severe storm events, SLR, shallow groundwater rise and land subsidence. Bay Alive is supporting our friends in the SF Shoreline Contamination Cleanup Coalition as they lead the charge to support, clarify and strengthen this important oversight of a major contamination threat in our shoreline communities. |
Take a hike! Here's what's available with your Loma Prieta chapter.
Note: regardless of the name/origin of the outing section, all are welcome!
August 3rd, Wed, 9 am. Arastradero Regional Preserve
August 3rd, Wed,10 am. Arastradero Regional Preserve
August 4th, Thu, 10 am. Treasure Island/Yerba Buena Island
August 6th, Sat, 9 am. 11 miles, 2300 ft elevation gain. Portola Redwoods State Park.
August 10th, Wed, 10am. Sanborn/Skyline Open Space
August 11th, Thu, 10am. Rancho San Antonio Open Space
Please follow the links to register and see more information. Event listings can also be found on our chapter calendar.
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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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Top Posts recently on Loma Prieta facebook page
Follow us on facebook and you'll see most stories before the eNewsletter, and other stories and action alerts that don't make it into the eNewsletter.
#3. How Airports Became a Haven for Wild Animals
#2. Frog Parking Only!
#1. Bay Alive Campaign in the Mercury News: Expand and Restore Bay Wetlands to Fight Climate Change
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Social Media Channels for the Loma Prieta Chapter
Facebook: Chapter, 20s – 30s, GLS, Sierra Singles
Loma Prieta Chapter's YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Spotify |
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In Case You Missed It
Click here to see previous volumes of our Chapter eNewsletter.
HISTORIC DATES
Aug 9, 1916, establishment of Lessen Volcano National Park, CA
Aug 16, 1933, two months after the Loma Prieta Chapter was founded, birth of Julie Newmar
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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!
Photographers, 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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Photo: thanks to the Loma Prieta Chapter's 20s - 30 Outing Section for hosting their Chapter Director on their July 31st hike in Saratoga Quarry Park. Good luck Jess!
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The paradox of education is precisely this, that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. James Baldwin, born August 2, 1924 |
Liberty and Justice for All,
James Eggers, Director
Sierra Club, Loma Prieta Chapter |
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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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