Blog posts from around the country
San Francisco Bay Chapter
In April 2020, JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park was temporarily closed to cars and turned into a promenade for people walking, biking, or rolling. The JFK promenade is wildly popular: over 72% of San Franciscans surveyed support making it permanent.…
Piasa Palisades Group / Sierra Club Illinois Chapter / Illinois
Join us for our April Speaker Series event, "Trees Forever," to learn more about the benefits of urban trees in small municipalities.
Great Waters Group / Wisconsin Chapter / Wisconsin
A controversy over the disposition of Knowles-Nelson Stewardship funds has revealed that stalling tactics on the part of the Republican-dominated Legislature may be aimed at undermining Wisconsin’s successful conservation program.
Oregon Chapter
At the Sierra Club we know that climate change is perhaps the most important environmental issue of our time. And though the climate crisis impacts everyone, those impacts do not fall equally upon all communities. We have learned that our best path…
Central Piedmont Group / North Carolina Chapter / North Carolina
Help CPG accomplish our goals for 2022. Contact Gerry Kingsley: gerry.m.kingsley@gmail.com for more information.
Vermont Chapter
A few weeks ago, the House Agriculture Committee passed a version of H. 626, an act relating to the sale, use, or application of neonicotinoid pesticides.
Maryland Chapter
Today the Maryland House of Delegates passed the Climate Solutions Now Act of 2002 that will cut carbon pollution by 60% by 2031 and begin to reduce pollution from buildings and homes by shifting away from using fossil fuels for heating. Click to…
District of Columbia Chapter
As in previous years, at the budget hearing for DC's Green Finance Authority, the Sierra Club again called on the "green" bank to stop financing fossil fuel systems in buildings.
District of Columbia Chapter
The Sierra Club testified before the Department of Energy and Environment's budget hearing, calling for greater funding for building electrification and certain zero waste initiatives.
Maryland Chapter
The Sierra Club hosted a Sustainable Towns Forum in Southern Maryland with councilmembers David Jenkins of La Plata, Elizabeth Lawton of North Beach, and Nick Colvin of Leonardtown. Learn about their efforts from this blog post by St. Mary's College…