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The annual election for Sierra Club’s Board of Directors is now underway. Those eligible to vote in the national Sierra Club election will receive ballots in early March by mail (or digitally if you chose the electronic delivery option). This will...

In late January, we received word that the Southern Resident orca, Mega (L-41), was presumed dead. Mega’s disappearance brings the population down to only 72 orca, the second-lowest since the Center for Whale Research first began its census 45 years...

Every 30 seconds, the US loses a patch of nature the size of a football field. This is the kind of factoid we’ve heard repeated so frequently that we are almost desensitized to the meaning. Now, in an era of climate change, people are thinking about...

The winter of 2012 was an intense one. I was a busy extrovert struggling to adjust to new motherhood, exhausted by sleepless nights, bored by endless days at home, and feeling crushed by the unremitting grey of the weather. I longed to get out, to...

Evergreen February 2020 | A Whale Orca-strated Recovery Plan

This edition features important updates on our building electrification work and a chance to get involved at the 2020 Environmental Lobby Day!...

Mayor Durkan committed all new city buildings and retrofits of city buildings to using fossil-free energy. We know fracked gas is a huge remaining hurdle in our climate challenge, so this move was a needed first step that Sierra Club is excited to...

The mainstream environmental movement has an uncomfortable history regarding race and equity. While Sierra Club and other organizations are actively working to improve in this arena, some problematic narratives still exist. One of these is the claim...

The Port Angeles Harbor was once lined with plywood, pulp and paper mills for many decades. These left a legacy of contaminants in the Harbor sediments and town soils. Toxic air emissions reached back to the Olympic National Park harming trees and...

If your new year resolution was to get more involved in protecting our orca and salmon, you’re in luck. As we ring in the new year, we also welcome two new opportunities to effectively protect our endangered salmon, and the Resident Southern orca...