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As 2021 winds to a close, we are proud of our hard-working activists, grateful for your support, and recharging our batteries for the important work waiting for us in 2022. Thanks for being part of our community. Blessings to you and yours this holiday season.
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Build Back Better Needs Your Help
 Last week, the House passed the historic Build Back Better Act (BBB) thanks to hard work by you, other Sierra Club volunteers, and community leaders across the nation. We still have to get it through the Senate and onto President Biden's desk, but this is a huge step toward creating a more just, livable future for all. Celebrate this milestone and your contribution to it!
For the past several months, we've lobbied our elected officials, written hundreds of letters, made thousands of phone calls, and engaged our communities as part of a broad movement to demand our legislators act on climate, jobs, and justice by passing Build Back Better.
This legislation will be the country's biggest investment in climate action in history and our biggest investment in social programs since the New Deal. And we need your help to get it passed in the Senate.
Learn more here about BBB, the specific benefits it would bring locally, and how you can help get it over the finish line in the Senate.
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Year-End Celebration!
Let's come together to celebrate, play some games, win prizes and reflect on what we appreciate. Will you join us?
 Let’s gather together (still virtually) to celebrate a year of activism and appreciation. Bring fun drinks, food and recipes, and compete for prizes.
Share your favorite accomplishments from 2021, gratitude for others, and stories from this review this past year of virtual organizing together!
When: Tuesday, December 14th
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Where: Virtual - RSVP Here
We’ve been learning and applying new skills, and pulling together as we create and enhance teams. Along the way we have been making new friends, creating partnerships, influencing and persuading community members. This is how we change the world. Time to celebrate together!
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Vote For Your Sierra Club Executive Committees.
 Sierra Club, the nation’s most enduring grassroots environmental organization, is proudly democratic and member-driven. The at-large chapter and group delegates you elect will guide the strategies and tactics for Sierra Club's work in Nevada, Lake Tahoe, and the Eastern Sierra in 2022. Your vote ensures this work is guided by local Sierra Club members in an open and fair democratic process.
Sierra Club members, click here to learn more about the candidates and to vote before elections close after December 31, 2021.
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Give the Gift of Climate Action
 This holiday season, give the best present to your favorite people — a climate-resilient future. Across Nevada, Lake Tahoe, and the Eastern Sierra, Toiyabe Chapter activists have been contributing to climate action at every level:
- Federal (Build Back Better)
- State (Nevada Climate Strategy and Nevada Legislature)
- Local (Clark County and Reno sustainability plans; anti-sprawl activism and public lands bills)
We show up at meetings, lobby elected officials, spend hundreds of hours writing detailed comments on environmental plans, build partnerships and team up with activists like you to secure the best possible climate outcomes for our region and the planet. It's too late to avoid climate impacts like killer heat, drought, wildfires, smoke, etc. But it's not too late to make a difference for the future.
We find hope in these words from Rebecca Solnit:
"We still have time to choose the best rather than the worst scenarios, though the longer we wait the harder it gets, and the more dramatic the measures are required. We know what to do, and that knowledge is getting more refined and precise, but also more creative, all the time. The only obstacles are political and imaginative."
The Toiyabe Chapter combines experienced professional staff with passionate volunteers. We make a difference on important issues here in Nevada, Lake Tahoe, and the Eastern Sierra. Help us rise to meet our political obstacles imaginatively.
Give today.
If you're inspired to make a monthly gift, a generous donor will match you!
Learn more here. Thank you!
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Southern Nevada Group
Help Create the Clark County Sustainability Plan.
Take the All-In County Survey
 With Las Vegas' deadly summer heat, air pollution and Lake Mead's disappearing water, Clark County is on the front lines of the climate crisis. An important contributor to these ills is the region's carbon-intensive, resource-wasting sprawl development. The only way Clark County will avert even more catastrophic effects of climate disruption is a wholesale shift toward sustainability and resilience.
Luckily, Clark County's "All-In" project is gathering information to craft a county-wide Sustainability & Climate Action Plan, which will "outline the opportunities to address climate change and prepare for climate impacts in each part of our community."
Clark County residents, your voice, concerns, and recommendations are needed to inform the best solutions and underscore the County's urgency to act to avert the worst impacts.
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SNG Speaker Series: Food Deserts to Food Forests
 The state of Nevada has a high percentage of households living with food insecurity compared to the US average. Join Phillip Zawarus (Master Gardener and UNLV Professor) and Lisa Ortega (Master Arborist, SNG ExCom member, and founder of the new nonprofit Nevada Plants) for a discussion of food deserts throughout Southern Nevada, and their plan to provide education and training to deliver fruit and nut trees to communities in need.
On December 15 at 6pm, join this virtual talk. RSVP today via Zoom or watch it on Facebook Live at our SNG Facebook page.
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Worried About Water in the West?
Attend the Conference Below.
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Holiday Solidarity
 Mark your calendars, Las Vegas! Sierra Club is joining Las Vegas Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and other organizations to assemble and deliver holiday family meal kits for those in need this holiday season.
Saturday, December 18, 1pm-3pm
Amirana Community Center
6170 W. Viking Road. Las Vegas, NV 89103
Meal kits will include canned goods, other holiday-specific, non-perishable food items, and gift cards to cover the purchase of meat and/or other goods to complete people's holiday meals. Join us to assemble meal kits, donate to support this giving, or request a meal kit for your family or someone you love.
Support compassionate giving this holiday season.
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Support Local Environmental Activism
Everything you read here requires money to support the activists and staff who do this work every day.
Be generous. Donate today.
All funds stay here in Nevada, Lake Tahoe, and the Eastern Sierra.
Thank you!
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Join the Sierra Club
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