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Welcome to the online-only edition of the Sylvanian, our long-running Chapter Newsletter! Read the Spring 2021 newsletter!

April is National Volunteer Month, a time to celebrate the incredible work that Sierra Club volunteer leaders do all year round. Without our volunteers, the Pennsylvania Chapter simply would not exist. It’s true! There are endless ways to get...

For those of you who kept an eye on the previous legislative session, you’ve probably noticed this legislative session is very similar. We’re seeing a lot of the same bills reintroduced, both good and bad, be reintroduced and we’re hearing many of...

You may be aware that fracking and its byproducts have created tremendous environmental damage in the past several years in Pennsylvania and other states. Fracking is an extractive technique that removes natural gas from otherwise hard-to-extract...

I wrote this poem last year while actively working to reduce plastics in our lives. Over the summer my library, The Valley Community Library, and the Sierra Club put on "Go Green: Plastic Awareness for Families." Sarah Corcoran, the Forest Watch...

The Philadelphia Metro Wildlife Center (PMWC) relocated in July of 2019 to a three-acre property just north of Norristown in Montgomery County. A 2020 Sierra Club Huplits Grant has enabled the center to expand the number of outside enclosures...

The Allegheny Group Sierra Club’s Huplits Wildlife Grants Committee is seeking grant proposals to help protect animal wildlife and wildlife habitat in Pennsylvania. Approximately $75,000 will be available for the 2021 Huplits Wildlife Grant...

As a part of my household’s pandemic response, we have been doing monthly trips from Philadelphia to our beautiful regional state parks. With the turn in the weather, we have been grateful for the warm “modern cabins”--our January trip was to Lake...

You have probably heard of Bitcoin or Ethereum; you may have even heard stories of people getting rich quickly from these and other types of cryptocurrency. However, you may not have thought of the possible environmental impacts of these digital...

President Biden has the most ambitious climate agenda of any administration to date, and his early work to undo some of the harmful policies of the Trump Administration is providing some tailwinds for our state-level climate action. Below are...