The Sierra Club South Sound Group fights for environmental priorities across Thurston, Mason, Grays Harbor, and Lewis counties in the State of Washington.
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Monthly Community Meetings & Events
Aug. 19, 5 - 7 pm - Annual Sierra Club Picnic, Squaxin Park Picnic Pavilion
Our Community Meetings at the Olympia Center are regularly scheduled at 6 pm on the third Tuesday of the month from September through May.
All Sierra Club meetings are free and open to the public.
Ed Humble is the Chair of the Group Executive Committee. To contact Ed or other Group officers, please email sosound.sierraclub@gmail.com
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| Jason Dove Mark : The Earth Said Remember Me July 15th |
Jason Dove Mark
Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
6:00 - 7:00 PM
Upstairs at Browsers Bookshop in Olympia
Jason Dove Mark will discuss his book The Earth Said Remember Me: How to Revive Our Memories and Restore the Planet. Join us on Wednesday, July 15 at 6:00 PM. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing.
As the climate emergency worsens and biodiversity shrinks, we humans get used to it—we adapt, we normalize, we forget. Scientists call this “shifting baseline syndrome” and warn that it’s why we are increasingly sleepwalking toward disaster. In this positive and inspiring manifesto, the environmental activist and longtime editor-in-chief of Sierra magazine Jason Dove Mark offers an antidote, focusing on four simple but powerful rules that everyone can use to resist environmental amnesia: Go outside. Bear witness. Make a record. Pass it on. Mark makes the case for easy, everyday practices that can help us “remember the Earth” and support environmental conservation, restoration, and rewilding. And he shares moving examples of citizen scientists, birdwatchers, mountain climbers, and fishermen across the country who are putting them into practice. The Earth Said Remember Me is a hopeful, achievable prescription for protecting the planet, one citizen at a time.
Jason Dove Mark has served as editor-in-chief of Sierra and editor of Earth Island Journal. He is the author of Satellites in the High Country, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Atlantic. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.
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| ANNUAL SIERRA CLUB PICNIC Aug. 19th |
Sierra Club South Sound Group's Annual Picnic, Shelter #1 by the Rose Garden
Squaxin Park (Priest Point Park), 2600 East Bay Drive Northeast, Olympia, WA 98506
Picnic is open to the public and begins at 5:00 pm on Wednesday, August 19th, 2026.
Our goal: To provide the space and time for local environmental activists in Olympia to get together,network and have some fun.
Several local candidates for the November General election have been invited to introduce themselves and take your questions.
Leaders of other community organizations are welcome and invited to share what your group is doing.
The Sierra Club is serving plant-based burgers and hot dogs with fruit and veggie side dishes, desserts and cold drinks.
Attendees are welcome at their option to bring a side dish or dessert to share.
Carpooling to the park is recommended.
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