Blog posts from around the country

Central Piedmont Group / North Carolina Chapter / North Carolina
South Mountains State Park Hike - Saturday, June 3. Hikers enjoyed 2 trails in South Mountains State Park. The Chestnut Knob Trail, a fairly strenuous 4 mile roundtrip hike with great views from two overlooks and a fairly flat 2 mile roundtrip hike…
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
Houston METRO has started to develop a new Regional Transportation Plan that will define the next steps for transit and mobility improvements in the Houston region. METRO has a page at their website dedicated to the Plan which provides a brief…
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
Plastic pollution costs the City of Houston $21 million to prevent, enforce, educate and clean up litter (1). This figure comes from a study on the costs of litter and illegal dumping in nine cities in Texas. Texans for Clean Water commissioned…
Alabama Chapter
People’s Climate March Report; Annual Sierra Club Alabama Chapter Convention; Celebrating 125 Years: Sierra Club's Quasquicentennial; DefendRivers Paddle Set for Saturday July 8.; Black Warrior Riverkeeper’s 15th Anniversary: June 15th on the Bama…
Wisconsin Chapter
The results of a survey highlight how the state’s transportati
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
Story by Tom DouglasPhotos by Linda Shead, Taylor Cutshall, and Tom Douglas
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
The Galveston Bay Foundation (GBF) recently launched the Galveston Bay Action Network as a downloadable mobile app for iPhone and Android. This app allows users to report any land or water pollution within minutes.
Chickasaw Group / Tennessee Chapter / Tennessee
About 8 of us assembled at the Tiger's Baseball field and followed a utility right of way to the creek.  It was only 5 minutes.
North Star Chapter
Four Fact Sheets are now available on our website explaining the Enbridge Line 3 proposal and why it is a bad idea. Line 3 carries Canadian tar sands crude oil from Alberta to Superior, Wisconsin. The 1,097 mile pipeline includes a 337-mile stretch…