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  By Marilyn Shoemaker Hazelton Marilyn Shoemaker Hazelton is a poet and essayist, a former president of Tanka Society of America, and  was the editor and publisher of red lights, an international tanka journal. Her tanka have been...

We need substantial steps forward from the incoming Shapiro administration for bonding reform. By Kelsey Krepps, Senior Campaign Representative, Sierra Club's Beyond Dirty Fuels Campaign Op-ed originally published on November 17, 2022 in...

By Jacqline Wolf Tice, At-large delegate, Pennsylvania Chapter ExCom A young bald eagle flies over a grove along the Fork Branch near Cheswold, Delaware.  She circles above us six volunteers four times and then flies off to the south. ...

By Caitlin Schroering, Member, Thomas Merton Center, former member of the board of directors of the Thomas Merton Center Fascism and White Supremacy: what these terms mean, and what they mean to our nation, is increasingly a subject of...

By Sarah Corcoran, Interim Deputy Director for the Pennsylvania Chapter of the Sierra Club As we approach the holidays and create memories with our families, we also create something else – lots of trash. The average U.S. resident creates almost...

By Meenal Raval, Southeastern Pennsylvania Group ExCom We’ve been in our zero emissions townhouse for about five years. Due to many changes — COVID-19, a heart attack, closing of a family business which was the main reason for selecting this...

By Jack D. Miller, Pennsylvania Chapter Food and Agriculture Committee It’s Economics 101. When supplies go down or demand goes up, we have rising prices. When demand dramatically increased after the worst of the pandemic and things opened up,...

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By Jacqline Wolf Tice, At-large Delegate, Pennsylvania Chapter ExCom     The trust responsibility is born of the federal government’s promises and its assumption as trustee and “guardian” over Tribes (see Cherokee v. Georgia,...

By Jacqline Wolf Tice, At-large Delegate, Pennsylvania Chapter ExCom Indigenous Peoples Day is observed in Pennsylvania and as a federal holiday on Monday, October 10, 2022. It has been a long road for Tribes and Indigenous activists, and their...