Blog posts from around the country
Washington State Chapter
The annual election for Sierra Club’s Board of Directors is now underway. Those eligible to vote in the national Sierra Club election will receive ballots in early March by mail (or digitally if you chose the electronic delivery option). This will…
Washington State Chapter
In late January, we received word that the Southern Resident orca, Mega (L-41), was presumed dead. Mega’s disappearance brings the population down to only 72 orca, the second-lowest since the Center for Whale Research first began its census 45 years…
Washington State Chapter
Every 30 seconds, the US loses a patch of nature the size of a football field. This is the kind of factoid we’ve heard repeated so frequently that we are almost desensitized to the meaning. Now, in an era of climate change, people are thinking about…
Alabama Chapter
The Citizens’ Climate Education hosted the first Faith Meets Business: Climate Solutions for the Common Good on Saturday, February 8, at the McWane Center in Birmingham. This event was orchestrated in part by longtime Sierra Club member Joyce…
Washington State Chapter
The winter of 2012 was an intense one. I was a busy extrovert struggling to adjust to new motherhood, exhausted by sleepless nights, bored by endless days at home, and feeling crushed by the unremitting grey of the weather. I longed to get out, to…
Great Waters Group / Wisconsin Chapter / Wisconsin
Eleven activists from the Milwaukee African American community received honors as "Environmental Pioneers" at a Black History Month presentation held at the Wisconsin Black History Society Museum.
York River Group of the Virginia Sierra Club / Virginia Chapter / Virginia
The Sierra Club York River Group met at the Tabb Library in York County on February 19 for its first meeting in 2020.
Lone Star Chapter
Local residents, the city of Port Isabel, and Sierra Club today filed suit against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for authorizing construction of the highly polluting Rio Grande LNG fracked gas facility and Rio Bravo Pipeline…
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
By Brandt Mannchen
I was early on my drive to the Katy Prairie Conservancy’s (KPC) Indiangrass Prairie at their field office in Grimes County. I stopped at KPC’s observation platform at Warren Lake on the 6,000-acre Warren Ranch....
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WNC Group / North Carolina Chapter / North Carolina
Sierra Club presents on Thursday March 5, 7 pm, "Funding Climate Change Priorities." Come hear & he