Chapter Director's Blog

Last Thursday, I, along with many of our volunteer leaders, Sierra Club staff and partner groups, attended the TVA Board's public listening session in Memphis. We don't have insight into how speakers get selected, but from some of the speakers' own...

Dolly Parton grew up without running water or electricity, one of twelve kids in a one-room cabin in the Smoky Mountains - Locust Ridge Tennessee to be exact. And she celebrated her humble beginnings. She wore her story, sang about it in songs like...

 By Sinclaire Sparkman-Carr Three new Tennessee Sierra Club members met up with chapter chair Pat Cupples on Tuesday, August 11, for a foray into the preserved floodplain next to the Cumberland River in downtown Nashville. The sounds of...

Riley Douglas joined the Tennessee Chapter in June of 2026 as our first Volunteer Engagement Coordinator.  Learn about Riley in their own words.Riley Douglas (she/they) was born and raised in sunny South Florida, then spent nine years...

Counties all across the state are pushing to halt data center construction and to pass laws that protect our communities, our electricity bills, our air and water, our climate, and our neighborhoods. This coming Tuesday, July 7th,...

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...