By Cheryl Conley - Cockroaches love heat and humidity—and there’s no denying that Houston offers ideal conditions for them.

On August 9, 2025, the Houston Sierra Club enjoyed a visit to the Lone Star Fight Museum at Ellington Airport in southeast Houston.

Join Sierra Club and Third Act at our SunDay rally on Sunday, Septemer 21s. Houston's event will be one of a hundred events across the nation. It will be at 2pm, at Christ the King Lutheran Church, 2353 Rice Blvd, near Rice University Stadium.

Welcome to the Houston Sierra Club online Bayou Banner newsletter for August 2025. Click the title to see the news this month.

The next Water for People and the Environment Committee will take place virtually on Monday, August 11, on the topic of "Water and Data Centers in Texas".

By Brandt Mannchen - In June 2025, I needed to get away for some “Nature” time. I headed to Jocelyn Nungaray National Wildlife Refuge (formerly known as Anahuac NWR).

In this time of very bleak environmental news, where all you see is degradation and decline, we have not one, but two significant victories.

The Sierra Club, both the Lone Star Chapter and Houston Regional Group, are interested in wildlife and natural ecosystems. That’s why the most recent information about butterflies is troubling.

It is HOT in Houston, and getting hotter. Urban heat impacts our health, the economy, and the environment.

President Donald Trump’s official budget request for fiscal year (FS) 2026 defunds most conservation funding including unprecedented cuts to the National Park Service (NPS) and reductions in federal programs which connect our children and...