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► 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. |
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 tickets here. See sponsorship opportunities here.
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Loma Prieta Chapter Supports Affordable Housing for Farmworkers
The Chapter has long advocated for affordable housing, especially for farmworkers, in and near Half Moon Bay. Over recent decades the City and the County have achieved notable successes with the prize-winning Moonridge farmworker project near the southern edge of town and several excellent senior housing projects along Main Street.
A recent success-in-the-making is the projected utilization of City properties on Kelly Avenue to build 40 farmworker units plus a meeting room that will have very short walks to transit, medical services, schools and shopping. The City Council, Mercy Housing and the amazing Ayudando Latinos A Sonar (ALAS) organization can take a much deserved bow for pulling this together.
But stay tuned. The Chapter is supporting other affordable housing locations in Half Moon Bay that could yield multiples of the above project and we look forward to the day when we can announce those to you.
Mike Ferreira
Loma Prieta Chapter Executive Committee
Coastal Issues Committee
Learn more about affordable housing |
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!
Learn more in "Celebrating 50 Years of Conservation (US Fish & Wildlife Service article), and in Bay Nature's article The Refuge On the Wild Side of Silicon Valley
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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. |
More from our friends at San Jose Clean Energy
1. Net Metering Customers eNewsletter sign-up here
2. Solar Customers, it is Time to True-Up! What's "True-Up"? |
Rebuilding Coastal Prairies
Saturday, September 24, 2022 10:00 am PDT
The Coastside Land Trust welcomes Grey Hayes to talk about the many facets of the coastal prairie - including an in depth talk about what lives within it, and why we should care. He will also explore the history and current restoration and conservation efforts, and the concept of re-indigenation from the perspective of a restoration ecologist.
Register here to Learn More about Coastal Prairies |
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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Indigenous Sacred LandsThreatened Locally
“In order for us to keep learning and revitalizing our culture, especially for the youth and future generations, we need Juristac, so they can connect to it and have ceremonies there.” “How can we do that if it’s just an open mine?”
- Member of the Amah Mutsun, Carolyn Rodriguez, quoted in this article by the Stanford Daily
Click here to learn more about the importance of protecting Juristac |
Bat Fest!
Join our dear friends at Saved By Nature for an evening festival celebrating local animals of the night, with live bats, owls, and other creatures. It's a fun time under the stars! With a special guest speaker, food trucks, live music, festival games, arts and crafts, mini-pumpkin patch, REI lounge and community partner organization booths. Be sure to bring your own blankets and lawn chairs to enjoy popcorn, cotton candy and your favorite drink while watching the movie The Addams Family (1991) under the night sky.
Learn more about Saved By Nature's Bat Fest. |
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. |
What Are the SEC Climate Rules?
Financial regulators are hoping to force big companies and investment managers to disclose climate information. If you'd like to join local grassroots effective work to make these changes happen, please contact Sue Chow, sue2042@gmail.com
Loma Prieta Chapter, Chair of Environmental Legislative Action Committee |
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!
Wed 8/17/22 10:00 AM. Hike, Hayward Shoreline
Thu 8/18/22 10:00 AM. Hike, Hayward Shoreline
Mon 8/22/22 9:00 AM. POLE Hiking Training, Mori Point, Pacifica
Sun 8/28/22 11:00 AM. Sierra Azul Woods Trail (Front Country)
Register and see more information 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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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
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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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