Blog posts from around the country
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
Many cities around the world are re-designing their transportation infrastructure to emphasize walking, biking, and transit, to both address climate change and to create more livable, people friendly communities. Fossil fuel based transportation…
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
Fourteen of us were standing in the middle of a full parking lot, school buses were unloading excited students, cars and people were moving in and out of the parking lot and heading in all directions, rain was threatening, people were looking at me…
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
Our Annual Auction and holiday gathering will take place this year at our December General Meeting on Thursday, December 8. This is one of the fundraising events for the Houston Group and features both a live and silent auction. All proceeds from…
Redwood Chapter
As we have done in the past, the national Sierra Club is organizing a major get-out-the-vote campaign in battleground states, with the main focus being Washoe County, Nevada.
Redwood Chapter
The very sad news of the September 6 death of Redwood Chapter’s longtime Conservation Chair Diane Fairchild Beck reached us just as the Redwood Needles was going to press.
Florida Chapter
Representatives of many environmental organizations involved in Everglades restoration presented a collective message to the residents and leaders of the Glades communities.
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
The Houston Sierra Club (HSC) provided input to the Galveston Bay Estuary Program (GBEP) about funding for its Subcommittees so they can implement research, monitoring, water and sediment quality, natural resource, and public education projects.…
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
Sierra Club Comments on Compartments 48, 49, and 53 Project in Sam Houston National Forest
The Houston Regional Group and Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club (Sierra Club) submitted scoping comments to the U.S. Forest Service (FS) for the Walker…
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
Old mattresses are bulky and take up lots of room in land fills. And 90% of mattress materials are recyclable: polyurethane foam, cotton, steel coils, and wood. Many cities are now diverting old mattresses from the waste stream, and recycling...