Chapter Director's Blog

Vince Cianciolo came into my orbit when he volunteered to help put on our first Garden Party at Ijams Nature Center last year. He secured raffle donations, booked our student jazz band, handled the logistics that made the event a success — all...

There's something about being on a bike that expands what you notice. You're moving fast enough to cover ground, slow enough to actually see it. This past weekend, a crew of riders from all over Tennessee spent two days covering 100 miles along the...

TVA just made a 20-year bet on batteries — and it matters for Tennessee's energy future.TVA and Plus Power announced a deal to add 200 megawatts of utility-scale battery storage to the Tennessee Valley.  This is a big deal! This is TVA...

Thank you to Karen McIntyre for her sustaining efforts to turn food waste into a resource in the Nashville Public Schools.  Today I shared this letter along with drawings, postccards and a banner from over 100 2nd graders at a local elementary...

Tennessee Sierra Club: Protect Citizens' Ability To Protect Their Health And Communities Nashville, TN - This week, the Tennessee Senate will hear SB1958, which, if passed, would limit the ability of citizens and organizations to use their...

We just wrapped one of the best Conservation Day on the Hill events we've had, and it's hard not to still feel the buzz from an exciting day at the Capitol.Sixty-three volunteers came to Nashville, walked the halls of the Cordell Hull Building and...

When Cheatham County passed the Jackson Law this year, giving local communities a voice in landfill decisions, it was a victory years in the making. At the heart of this community effort was Shirley Moulton, who spent countless hours alongside her...

When the service mast was pulled off my house during Winter Storm Fern, it was a small-scale example of what happened across Middle Tennessee. My East Nashville neighborhood went dark Sunday morning, and as I share this almost two weeks later, some...

Stop motion lego movie show how easy it would be to fund recycling in TN