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Wishing you all a happy New Year, and hoping you enjoyed restful, fond memories over the holidays. Thank you to everyone who supported our year-end fundraising to fuel our work for 2022. As you can see in the stories here, there are many ways to get involved. We hope your resolutions include getting involved to make a difference for our future, because we can't do it without you.
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Calling All Volunteers!
 By Teresa Bell, Volunteer Coordinator
The Toiyabe Chapter is powered by grassroots and community organizing, so we are always recruiting volunteers across Nevada, Lake Tahoe, and Eastern California to help win environmental victories! Whatever your interest, experience level, and schedule, we strive to provide opportunities to help you become the change you want to see. Keep reading to learn more, and sign up below!
Consider the type of experience you're looking for. Do you want to join a team? Meet new people? Work on projects? Build a community? What is your ideal time commitment? What issues are you passionate about?
Outings Leaders
We are looking for Outings Leaders, who will be trained to share the many wonderful outdoor secrets of our region. We are not "just another hiking group." The Sierra Club has been leading adventures for 130 years. Our mission is to "Explore, enjoy, and protect the planet." Our volunteer outings leaders will, at a minimum, have basic first aid training and become certified and mentored by veteran outings leaders before becoming outings leaders themselves. Fill out this form or Contact Volunteer Coordinator Teresa Bell with questions — toiyabe.volunteer@sierraclub.org
Web Design Training
Receive training in one of the leading web-editing platforms — Drupal — to help the Toiyabe Chapter and our various groups and teams build and update our web pages as needed.
Event Planners
Social events — sprinkled with enthusiasm and activism — can help save the world.
- Help plan events to build public support for the designation of Avi Kwa Ame National Monument in Southern Nevada. We need help with tabling at community events, planning events, and stewardship events out on the ground in this magical landscape. Learn more and sign the Avi Kwa Ame petition here.
- Help plan fundraising events.
- Plan and join tabling and other community outreach events.
- Plan volunteer celebration events such as Earth Day or Volunteer Appreciation.
NEPA & CEQA Review
Are you someone with knowledge, experience or interest in protecting lands, wildlife, and waters? One of the most important ways to do so is by responding to federal or state government proposals for action, using the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Join the Conservation and Public Lands team, and help us hold government agencies accountable as they consider mining, development and other proposals on your public lands. Training is available.
Communications
Do you like to write or post on social media? Writers needed for letters to the editor, op-eds, and newsletter articles. More people commenting and educating the public creates more public support for change.
These are just a few of the volunteer opportunities available. Many more — both big and small — are available for skill levels and time commitments.
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Oil & Gas Leasing Update and Activist Training
 The U.S. Department of Interior recently released a long-awaited report that assesses the environmental, health, and economic impacts of federal oil and gas leasing programs on public lands and offshore waters.
Join us on January 18th at 6pm to discuss the report, the upcoming federal oil and gas lease sale, and learn about what you can do to help protect Nevada’s Public Lands!
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Welcome Executive Committee Members!
 Thank you to all the candidates who stepped up to serve on executive committees for the Chapter and/or our groups. And thank you to all Sierra Club members who took the time to vote in December for these candidates.
We're honored to welcome the following new executive committee members, who will help guide the Toiyabe Chapter to our many environmental victories in 2022 and beyond!
- Tina Davis — Chapter ExCom
- Connie Howard — Chapter ExCom
- Tanya Flanagan — Chapter ExCom
- Ashlee Marie Forman — Chapter ExCom
- Holly Coughlin — Great Basin Group ExCom
- Tobi Tyler — Tahoe Area Group ExCom
- Dan Cobb — Tahoe Area Group ExCom
- Lynne Paulson — Tahoe Area Group ExCom
- Vinny Spotleson — Southern Nevada Group ExCom
- Brendan Becker — Southern Nevada Group ExCom
- Misty Haji-Sheikh — Southern Nevada Group ExCom
- Christina Patterson — Southern Nevada Group ExCom
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Speak Out for the 30x30 Conservation Atlas.
 The Bureau of Land Management and Department of Interior have announced a series of virtual listening sessions and a formal 60-day comment period on the 30x30/American Conservation & Stewardship Atlas.
It is important that a range of diverse pro-conservation perspectives are represented in these listening sessions to support ambitious land conservation.
The dates and RSVP links are below:
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Southern Nevada Group
SNG Virtual Speaker Series: Solar Power
 The solar energy industry has grown immensely over the past several years. Despite its deservedly green reputation, solar development and deployment may have social and environmental consequences, from poor factory labor standards to landscape impacts on wildlife.
Join San Jose State University Associate Professor Dustin Mulvaney, author of Solar Power, who researches the ongoing conflicts between ecological concerns and climate mitigation strategies, global trade, and the fate of toxics in solar waste products. Despite these tradeoffs, his research makes a strong case for the use of solar power energy and offers a vision for a more sustainable and just solar industry for the future.
January 19 at 6pm.
RSVP to attend via Zoom.
Or watch on Facebook live on SNG's page.
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Great Basin Group
Support the Reno City Proposed Tree Ordinance.
 With billions of years of R&D behind them, trees are among the best technologies to fight our climate crisis. They sequester carbon, remove pollution from the air, and cool neighborhoods, all while filtering water, providing essential oxygen, and boosting property values and economic activity to boot.
The Reno City Council is considering a Tree Protection Ordinance that would increase the tree canopy within the City by supporting the retention of healthy trees and updating replacement requirements for removed trees on both public and private properties.
Reno is one of the fastest-warming cities in the nation, with an urban canopy less than half of those in Boise or Salt Lake City. Trees are sorely needed to secure a climate-resilient future for our "City of Trembling Leaves."
You can learn more about the ordinance here, and use their comment form to submit your feedback. Learn more about the benefits of trees here. time to take the Lorax's advice, and speak for the trees.
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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
to support local community activists.
Thank you!
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Join the Sierra Club
Thanks for reading. Become an environmental champion by becoming a member! The Sierra Club is the largest, most enduring grassroots environmental organization in the nation. Your membership makes us stronger!
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