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Meet the Mainers at the Bleeding Edge of the Home Electrification Revolution

Progressive state incentives, plus the IRA, allow Maine to install heat pumps faster than any other state

By Julia Sklar September 17, 2024

In this story: clean energy

Anne Pappas sits next to her heat pump, installed on the side of her gray and white mobile home.

How to Navigate the Clean Energy Transition

Some tips for electrifying your home and transportation

By Sierra Staff September 16, 2024

In this story: clean energy, clean heat, lifestyle

Electrify Your Wheels: Here Are the Latest EVs for Bargain Hunters

There are more affordable EVs than ever before

By Jim Motavalli September 16, 2024

In this story: electric vehicles

illustration of an electric car charging outside a house

Electrify Your Wheels: Check Out the New Range of E-Bikes

What kind of cyclist are you?

By David Darlington September 16, 2024

In this story: electric vehicles

How to Decarbonize Your Entire Home

A guide to electrifying your residence, from heat pumps to solar panels and more

By Justin Gerdes September 16, 2024

In this story: clean heat, solar, lifestyle

This Salamander Is the Only Vertebrate Tapped Into Photosynthesis

All salamanders have amazing biological powers, but this particular one takes the cake

By Julia Sklar September 15, 2024

In this story: animals, Joy

Close-up of a black and yellow spotted salamander on a leaf

What's the Sierra Club Been Up To Lately?

Alerts, campaign updates, and victories from Sierra Club volunteers and staff

By Lindsey Botts September 14, 2024

In this story: Roundup, current events, climate change

montage of Sierra Club signs: Environmental Justice, because everyone deserves a clean environment; Keep the Frack Out of My Water; Sierra Club for Gender Equity; No Drilling Where We're Living; People's Climate March; Protect Our Communities.

These Are the Novel Batteries That Could Power the Energy Transition

Three promising alternatives to lithium-ion

By Elyse Hauser September 13, 2024

In this story: clean tech

Illustration shows solar panels and wind turbines

Here's What Happens When Big Data Takes Over a Small Town

In Virginia, the planet's largest proposed data center threatens local ecosystems

By Ashley Stimpson September 12, 2024

In this story: technology, ecosystems, data centers

Illustration shows a tall mainframe building next to a mountain and a farm with a horse grazing

The Carbon Footprint of Amazon, Google, and Facebook Is Growing

How cloud computing—and especially AI—threaten to make climate change worse

By Andrew Leonard September 11, 2024

In this story: technology, climate change, data centers

Illustration shows a skyscraper-size computer mainframe with wires coming out the back, next to other city buildings

Electrifying Everything Will Require a Much Larger Workforce

Electricians are essential to a renewable energy future

By Gabe Castro-Root September 10, 2024

In this story: green jobs

Illustration shows an electrician standing on a ladder and reaching up to electrical wires and a large lightning-bolt-shaped gap in a purple mountain

Getting Off Gas, Block by Block

Trying to electrify a home can be hard. What if we instead focused on liberating entire neighborhoods from their reliance on methane gas?

By Peter Fairley September 9, 2024

In this story: methane gas, dirty fuels

Illustration shows a figure dressed in white climbing blue and purple pipes

Invasive Carp Are Surging in the Mississippi River. Will People and Pets Eat Them?

The US market for fish is a tough one

By Elise Plunk September 8, 2024

In this story: fish, invasive species, rivers

Our Transition to the Green Economy Does Not Need to Be Slow to Be Just and Equitable

We can have a sustainable economy and good jobs too

By Ben Jealous September 7, 2024

Tourism Can Wreck Local Communities and Ecosystems

Hawai'i has a plan that would encourage tourists to restore the land while contributing needed tourism dollars

By Michele Bigley September 6, 2024

In this story: travel, climate change, invasive species, indigenous communities

A plane flying over blue waters off the coast of Hawaii

Darkness Visible

A new dark-sky sanctuary in rural Oregon will help protect the sight of stars

By Jeremy Miller September 5, 2024

In this story: light pollution, Joy

The World's Most Famous Polar Bears Are Struggling to Adapt to Climate Change

Researchers say Churchill's polar bears are headed toward extinction if warming continues

By Robert Annis September 4, 2024

In this story: polar bears, arctic, climate change, climate adaptation, saving wild places

Two polars wait for the ice to form on the edge of Hudson Bay.

Electric Big Rigs Are Poised to Revolutionize the Trucking Industry

A new generation of heavy haul vehicles will cut carbon pollution, clean up the air, and improve truckers' lives

By Judith Lewis Mernit September 3, 2024

In this story: transportation

A WattEV charging facility in Bakersfield, California.

“Zone Zero” Mandates Near Completion for High Wildfire Risk Areas

In California, new rules are intended to create better defensible space

By Suzanne Bohan September 2, 2024

In this story: wildfire

Photo by Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via AP

Indigenous-Led Tourism Alliances Are Taking Back Recreation on Their Land

They say that, done right, Indigenous tourism can also be a form of reconciliation

By Cinnamon Janzer September 1, 2024

In this story: indigenous communities, travel

A warrior woman standing in front of a lake.