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Want to Grow Your Skills as an Activist? Join Our Advocacy Team!
June 23, 2021
If you’re looking for a way to help advance the Sierra Club’s mission here in the Bay Area, our Advocacy Team is a great place to start. This action-oriented group helps push for the adoption of local Sierra Club-endorsed environmental policies...
Educators Invited to July 30th Climate Literacy Workshop with the Monterey Bay Aquarium
June 23, 2021
Calling all teachers of grades six through twelve! Our Climate Literacy Committee is collaborating with the Monterey Bay Aquarium on a free, virtual workshop on July 30th from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Build your confidence teaching climate change while...
Stop the Giveaway of Public Park Space in Oakland’s San Antonio Park
June 17, 2021
Part of the Sierra Club's mission to "preserve and protect" wild places also involves looking at how we can safeguard natural open space in urban areas. The Northern Alameda County Group opposes the proposal by the City of Oakland to remove a...
Now Recruiting: Young Adult Advisory Board on Tobacco Product Waste
June 16, 2021
The Sierra Club is currently recruiting new members to a Young Adult Advisory Board to lead statewide change to hold big tobacco companies accountable for the environmental destruction that they are causing. Tobacco product waste is the most...
Take Action: Support $400 Million in State Funding for Bay Resilience
June 11, 2021
As part of state budget negotiations currently underway, the California State Senate is proposing to utilize $3.675 billion of the state’s record budget surplus to aid climate resilience and climate adaptation efforts across California. The Sierra...
Golden Gate Village: An Opportunity for Reparations in Marin County
June 8, 2021
In Marin County, an opportunity for reparations is playing out in Golden Gate Village, the only majority-Black public housing in the county. A green preservation-based plan for renovation of all 300 units was developed by the Golden Gate Village...
End to Single-Family Zoning in Berkeley Forces Us to Reflect on Our Past
June 7, 2021
Single-family zoning is something that doesn’t even exist in most other countries, yet it constitutes the majority of residentially zoned land in every state of the union and 70 percent of all residential zoning in America. It started in Berkeley,...
Polluting Appliances: An Illustrated Primer
June 7, 2021
Building decarbonization has become one of the Sierra Club's priority campaigns here in the Bay Area and nation-wide. It's a hugely important issue area with major implications for public health and the climate, but the terms "building...
Captive Tule Elk Are Dying in Point Reyes
June 4, 2021
The Sierra Club has become extremely concerned about Point Reyes National Seashore’s management of the 2,600-acre Tomales Point Elk Reserve, where tule elk are held captive behind an eight-foot, woven-wire fence. 254 individual elk (47% of the...
Tuolumne River Threatened by SF Water Agency — Take Action!
June 2, 2021
Recently, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) staff and City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed a lawsuit challenging the State of California’s authority to protect rivers and streams, without informing the San Francisco Board of...