Chloe Selles, Eastern PA Community Organizer, lives in Harrisburg, but in her role supporting Ready for 100 programs (RF100), she speaks with many volunteer leaders from around the state. A leader call in late June began what will be an ongoing...

Eva Resnick-Day, Sierra Club Community Organizer in Pittsburgh, explained how the local Ready For 100 team shifted their priorities in response to the pandemic and the George Floyd killing. During the pandemic she said it quickly became clear that...

Hop Hopkins, the director of strategic partnerships for the Sierra Club, recently wrote an editorial for the Sierra Club magazine laying bare the intersection of environmentalism and equity, or conversely, white supremacy and the despoiling of the...

In December 2015 the City of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority reached an agreement to close the dark chapter of massive urban renewal begun 60 years before in the southwest neighborhood of Eastwick, and return to city...

As a white environmentalist in Pennsylvania, I, like many of my fellow Sierra Club members, am coming to grips with what it means to put equity and justice at the forefront of our work and to build alliances that center the Black experience as we...

Written by Jim Wylie, PA Chapter Chair Every 5 years the electric utilities in PA must submit a plan to the Pennsylvania Utilities Commission (PUC) defining their Default Service Program (DSP) – basically defining how they will procure energy for...

On June 2, Montgomery County Commissioner Joseph G. Gale issued this statement criticizing recent protests against police brutality. Commissioners Valerie A. Arkoosh and Kenneth E. Lawrence, Jr. issued a response, which you can see...

On October 19, 2019, Chester County hosted a tour on the National Solar Tour.  In 35 sites, covering the better part of the whole county, over 200 participants were welcomed.  The Chester County Clean Energy Tour of 2019 was the culmination of a...

By Emily Davis, SPG treasurer Until I received the Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf as a gift, Alexander von Humboldt barely registered in my brain. I had heard of Humboldt and the Humboldt Current and the Humboldt penguin, but that was about...

The Sunrise Movement is pressing the Democratic National Committee to make at least one presidential debate focus entirely on our most dire existential emergency, climate change. This played out in July in a six hour training session, followed the...