Blog posts from around the country
Middle Tennessee Group / Tennessee Chapter / Tennessee
Elizabeth Langgle-Martin, MSW, serves as the Director of Community Engagement at The Nashville Food Project where she has been a part of food and land access work for the past 5.5 years. Elizabeth believes that access to quality, culturally…
Headwaters Group / Colorado Sierra Club / Colorado
And why there's more than nothing we can do about it.
Woods & Wetlands Group / Sierra Club Illinois Chapter / Illinois
Join Sierra Club Illinois’ Chapter PAC on Wednesday, September 13, for a night of food, fun, and chess—all in support of the committee's work to elect environmental champions up and down the ballot.
New Jersey Chapter
TRENTON – A coalition of environmental organizations are being backed by eight state Attorneys General and the New Jersey Ratepayer Advocate in their appeal of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) approval of a Williams Co. subsidiary’s…
Woods & Wetlands Group / Sierra Club Illinois Chapter / Illinois
Textiles are a major source of microplastics polluting our waters. Petroleum-based plastic is used extensively in mass-manufactured textiles, from our clothes to our bed sheets to our recreational gear. The pollution they create is everywhere.
Woods & Wetlands Group / Sierra Club Illinois Chapter / Illinois
The US Supreme Court recently submerged some protections for watersheds, ruling that protections of the federal Clean Water Act of 1972 applied only to wetlands with “continuous connection with an ocean, river, stream or lake.”
Woods & Wetlands Group / Sierra Club Illinois Chapter / Illinois
For five days in late July, volunteers from Woods & Wetlands and two other groups talked with visitors at the Lake County Fair about protecting open spaces. They also gathered hundreds of petition signatures to protect the Waukegan Savanna…
Pennsylvania Chapter
This is a call for Nominations to seek election to the Pennsylvania Chapter Executive Committee as an At-Large Member to serve 2024-2025.
Woods & Wetlands Group / Sierra Club Illinois Chapter / Illinois
School is back in session across Lake County—and so too is the Woods & Wetlands Sunday Speaker Series. The dynamite fall lineup begins on September 17, with a presentation on Lake County's newly designated old-growth forest.