Blog posts from around the country

Napa Sierra Club Group / Redwood Chapter / California
The notion of “systems” is too often overlooked in our analyses. We fail to see the interconnectedness of things, or worse, we ignore it. This is the certainly the case in the approach of the County of Napa, which chooses to ignore the reality of…
Pennsylvania Chapter
Well, that was fun! Our eight new conservation teams each hosted a one-hour webinar in June and July. We all learned something, including the need to make sure at least two people are Zoom-hosts in case one of the hosts loses power in a summer storm…
Pennsylvania Chapter
Rebecca Deegan has joined Sierra Club Pennsylvania Chapter as the new Outdoors for All Organizer in Philadelphia. A Philly resident for three years, Rebecca is coming to us from the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, where her work…
Pennsylvania Chapter
From delving into priority environmental legislation in Pennsylvania to exploring the policy and technology critical to Icelandic renewable energy, I was fortunate enough to have several experiences formative to my growth as an environmental…
Pennsylvania Chapter
Poets like to name the known world. Lists of words become free-form poems that make the reader sit up and reach, not just for the dictionary, but in the case of nature writers, for the encyclopedias of plants and animals. As a poet and a nature…
Pennsylvania Chapter
Bright Green Future is the name of a new book by Gregory Schwartz, a professor of Environmental Science, and writer Trevor Decker Cohen. The book’s subtitle, “How everyday heroes are reimagining the way we feed, power, and build our world” well…
Grand Canyon Chapter
Phoenix, AZ -- Today, leaders from local organizations (rooted in clean energy, environmental justice, voter rights, and interfaith advocacy) hand-delivered a large photo petition -- and thousands of individual petition signatures -- to the offices…
Pennsylvania Chapter
He carries his canoe down the trail to the river. It is upside down and balanced with the center thwart on his shoulders. When he reaches the water, he wades in and with a practiced motion gracefully rolls the boat down to the surface. He feels the…
Angeles Chapter
What Is Electrification and Why It Matters: Impact on Climate and Your Bottom Line. Wed. Sep.
New Jersey Chapter
Allie Horn, co-chair of the Chapter's Offshore Wind Committee, is quoted in the Patch on plans to begin construction next year on one of the largest wind farms in the nation, 15 miles off the Jersey Shore. She notes that "factors like atmospheric…