Meet Me In the Street, and We’ll Learn About Climate Change, by Kate Bit
July 26, 2024
Two of our student interns hosted a Napa Sierra Club booth at a recent "Meet Me In the Street" event in American Canyon. Read about how it went.
Reimagining Lake Berryessa: Balancing Nature and Development, by Carol Kunze
July 25, 2024
The desire to enjoy nature and the outdoors, whether quietly or actively, with family and friends--be it for a day, overnight, a week, or a vacation--makes recreation lakes like Lake Berryessa so popular and beneficial to local economies. Urban...
Saving a King Snake from Plastics, by Linda Brown and Scott Thomason
July 20, 2024
Little did the Napa Sierra Club Group know that when several of its members decided to do a group bike ride as part of the Vine Trail Locomotion Fundraiser recently, it would literally come to the rescue of a California King snake, saving its life...
Why It’s Time to Decommission the Clover Flat Landfill in Napa County, by Anne Wheaton and Geoff Ellsworth
July 19, 2024
In the steep and rugged hills atop Napa Valley's headwaters sits a 60-year-old landfill with a checkered past and a litany of environmental violations, fires, employee complaints, lawsuits and neighbors relentlessly pleading with regulators and Napa...
Stop Setting Your Thermostat at 72 - Use a Fan, by Adam Clark Estes, Courtesy of Vox
July 7, 2024
Setting your thermostat just a single digit higher can help you save 6 percent on your cooling costs, according to the EPA. Read on. Article is courtesy of Vox.
Give Me Some Energy! Understanding the Energy Needs of the U.S.: Where It Comes From, Where It Goes, and What Needs to Change, by Nick Cheranich
July 5, 2024
One of the most useful ways to really understand how we use energy and to know where that energy comes from is by using this flow chart (known as a Sankey Diagram) produced annually by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In this article, I...
What the Student Interns Are Doing, by Scott Thomason
June 2, 2024
Paulina Z. Enlightens Students About Environmental Awareness
Recently, Paulina Viera Zambrano conducted an informative session on environmental importance at Donaldson Way Elementary in American Canyon. Ms. Zambrano engaged a class of second and...
Napa Sierra Club's In-Person "Meet n Greet" Event, by David Campbell
June 2, 2024
The Napa Sierra Club hosted an in-person event, an early evening wine and hors d’oeuvres gathering, was held at Bay Grape in Napa on May 16th. It attracted over two dozen Sierra Club members and supporters who arrived with great ideas as to where...
Invasion! Why English Ivy Is a Danger to Trees, by Chris Sauer
June 2, 2024
English Ivy found its way to America with the British immigrants way back when and subsequently hitched its way to our Coast in the westward migration! Not being native to our coastal environments, it has no natural enemies (i.e., animals, insects,...