Courtney Bourgoin, courtney.bourgoin@sierraclub.org or (202) 495-3022
Oakland, CA—Sierra magazine offers a peek at its January/ February edition, on shelves Thursday, Dec. 14. Select writers and story subjects available for interview.
• Naomi Klein says “No Is Not Enough”: In an essay adapted from her latest bestseller, Klein takes readers from the bleached Great Barrier Reef to the water protectors' camp at Standing Rock focused on building an ecologically and socially-just world.
Exclusive: We'll be hosting a Facebook Live conversation with Naomi and Sierra Club Executive Director Mike Brune on January 10, 2018.
• How to Talk about Climate Change in Trump Country: In the red counties of Minnesota, the "Rural Climate Dialogues" have succeeded in getting some climate science deniers to change their minds, Madeline Ostrander reports.
• A hard-hitting piece from Ghana: Colorado-based mining giant Newmont has seized families' homes and farms—and some miners have been accused of fueling sex trafficking and underage prostitution, Sophia Jones reports in this feature underwritten by the Fund for Investigative Journalism
• Travelogue from Volcanoes National Park: A Sierra correspondent has no luck in spotting the endangered 'Alala crow.
• How Trump administration is junking the greater sage grouse conservation compromise: Even Republican governors in the West are unhappy with the latest move from Secretary Ryan Zinke’s Department of the Interior.
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