Blog posts from around the country

Massachusetts Chapter
Roughly three years ago, I ate a diet heavy in dairy, and had meat most days of the week. Granted, I have never had a taste for red meat, and mostly just ate chicken and turkey. I consumed dairy daily, despite growing up with an intolerance to…
Lone Star Chapter
It can be jarring to see bad vote tallies after you put in so much work raising awareness across the state about something so clearly risky, such as allowing our rubber stamp state agency (TCEQ) to issue permits for frackers to dump their wastewater…
San Francisco Bay Chapter
The developer Blackhawk Nunn Partners wants to push back Brentwood’s urban limit line to build 2,400 single-family homes outside city limits. What is now 800 acres of beautiful rolling hills and active farmland would become hundreds of acres of…
San Francisco Bay Chapter
Join us next Wednesday, April 24th to learn more about a proposed ordinance that would require climate-friendly all-electric new construction in Berkeley will. This is an opportunity to support this important step towards limiting Berkeley's…
Central Piedmont Group / North Carolina Chapter / North Carolina
Saturday, May 4, 2019 corner of Brandywine Rd. and Westfield Rd., Charlotte
Washington State Chapter
Every day, Puget Sound Energy (PSE) comes closer to completing construction on its proposed 8 million gallon Liquefied “Natural” Gas facility in Tacoma. The facility is being built on Puyallup Tribal Land despite the Tribe’s fierce opposition and…
Maryland Chapter
Native plants are an important part of any ecosystem because they maintain the ecosystem’s natural life cycle. Native plants are those that grow in a particular region without direct human involvement. Struggling to find places that sell native…
Idaho Chapter
As the Gem State’s ocean-running fish face the growing threat of extinction, it’s clear that Idahoans have the most to lose and gain in the Salmon/Snake river restoration debate. On April 23rd, the Andrus Center Conference “Energy, Salmon,…
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
By Brandt Mannchen Now, particularly in these days after Hurricane Harvey, we hear the word “Detention”, almost like a chant or mantra. Flood control experts, agencies, public officials, developers, and many citizens talk about “Detention” like it…
Maryland Chapter
On the final day of the 2019 legislative session, the Maryland General Assembly passed the Clean Energy Jobs Act (CEJA), SB516, with veto-proof majorities in the House and Senate.