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Your Guide to Town Halls
Once again, it’s recess time for Congress. For much of August, the House and the Senate will leave Washington and return to their home states and districts. Across the country, people like you are...
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Hard-Nosed Advocacy Pays Off in Minnesota
After four years of relentless, hard-nosed advocacy, a group of Beyond Coal activists in Minnesota is seeing its efforts pay off. Until July 23, the state’s Public Utilities Commision had been using...
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Surprising Stories of Climate Activists
Following in the noble tradition of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., millennials are using civil disobedience to call attention to the looming climate catastrophe. Climate activist Bill McKibben...
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Border Wall Opponents Stage Major Weekend Demonstrations
A broad coalition of environmental and immigrant-rights organizations staged a weekend of protests in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley in response to recently released maps outlining planned border wall...
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The Forefront of the Resistance
Cool Schools 2017 presented by Toad & CoYou don’t need me to tell you how hard it is to get involved in the fight for climate justice. As our political leaders question the basic science of rising...
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Standing Rock: One Year Later
A little over a year ago, Morgun Frejo, a member of the Pawnee, Otoe-Missouria, and Navajo Nations, began camping at Oceti Sakowin at Standing Rock. The Missouri River is sacred to both his Pawnee and...
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Whale Hunters Defend the Grind in "Islands and the Whales"
The Faroe Islands—an archipelago of 18 islands adrift in the North Atlantic between Scotland and Iceland—are home to people who have hunted the long-finned pilot whale since the days of their Viking...
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Utah Residents Resolve to Protect Public Land
The people of Utah have sent a clear message to state political leaders looking to reduce the size of federally protected lands: Take a hike.Thanks to a campaign led by the Sierra Club's Utah Chapter,...
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Meet Sadia Khan, Clean Air Campaigner
Name: Sadia KhanLocation: San Bernardino, CaliforniaContribution: My Generation campaign student activistWhat is My Generation, and how did you get involved? It's a youth-led campaign that pushes for...
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Community Activist Anthony Torres Receives Youth Brower Award
Anthony Torres wants a more just world. To get there, he believes in drawing people together from different movements, something he learned to do first by coming to terms with his own plural...
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A National Day of Action to Follow COP23
As the 23rd annual United Nations Climate Change Conference wraps up in Bonn today, Americans are preparing for nationwide rallies at state capitols and city halls to protest the current...
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Jackelin Treviño Says No to Walls
Name: Jackelin TreviñoLocation: McAllen, TexasContribution: Border wall activistHow did you first get involved with the Sierra Club? I was co-president of the Environmental Awareness Club in college....
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Salmon Rebellion
Last year on August 24, Ernest Alfred, an elementary-school teacher and hereditary chief from the 'Namgis, Lawit'sis, and Mamalilikala First Nations, boated out to Swanson Island, British Columbia, and...
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Hundreds Rally to Oppose Border Walls, Support Clean Dream Act
Hundreds of people gathered on Saturday to mark the 75th anniversary of the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley, kicking off the rally with a cheering rendition of “Las...
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Shash Jáa National Monument Is an Insult, Say Tribes
A hearing at the House Natural Resources Committee about the Shash Jáa and Indian Creek National Monument this week had a surreal quality. Tribal officials repeatedly told the HNRC that the proposed...
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When Black Women Walk, Things Change
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence,” wrote Audre Lorde. “It is self-preservation.” Lorde was speaking to a problem that has particular weight for African American women—because they are so often...
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Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Bayou Bridge Pipeline
On Friday, February 23, a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction against continued construction of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline, which is slated to cross North America’s largest swamp, the...
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Morgan Dixon Founded GirlTrek to Get Black Women Walking
WHEN MORGAN DIXON met Vanessa Garrison, both of them had jobs at an investment bank in Los Angeles. The two bonded over Tupac Shakur, Nikki Giovanni poems, and the fact that they were both working...
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Sierra Club's Ed Berry is Very Busy Making Political Endorsements
Name: Ed BerryLocation: Yonkers, New YorkContribution: Co-chair of the Atlantic Chapter Political CommitteeHow did you first get involved with the Sierra Club? I was a classroom teacher, mostly high...
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Sierra Club Helps Distribute Solar Lanterns in Puerto Rico
Last September, Hurricane Maria ripped through Puerto Rico with the force of a 50-mile-wide tornado, destroying much of the island's electrical grid. The Sierra Club quickly mobilized to raise money...
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