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Communities Worldwide Demand Action on Climate
Before Saturday, Laura Finnegan had never participated in an environmental protest. But after she had her first child, Finnegan, whose day job is in the hardware supply industry, began thinking about...
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Indigenous Peoples Want Canada to Start Listening
Auntie Gloria’s clam fritters were legendary in the Tsleil-Waututh Nation territory of the Canadian province of British Columbia. Reuben George remembers them well. Back in 1953—the same year that the...
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Cause for Hope: We’re On Track to Move Beyond Coal
If you’re alarmed or distressed by the major new climate findings released this week, I have good news to restore your hope and pull you back from the edge of despair. But first, in case you missed the...
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A Toehold at a Time
Every election cycle, our televisions, computers, and phones contain a steady stream of ads for candidates running up and down the ballot. Yet, every cycle, a few ads cut through the clutter and stand...
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Chief Justice Roberts Tosses Landmark Climate Lawsuit Into Limbo
When Julia Olson and her colleagues at Our Children’s Trust filed a lawsuit against the federal government in 2015 for exacerbating global climate change, they couldn’t have imagined that Donald Trump...
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In Florida, Voters Are Tired of All Talk and No Action
South Florida voters are tired of politicians telling them what they will do,instead they want someone who is already acting on climate change. Hillary Clinton won the 26th Congressional District in...
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Indigenous Activist and Cancer Survivor Works for a Just Transition
In 1999, Kandi Mossett found a purple-red, pea-size lump on her stomach and immediately suspected cancer. She was 20 years old. For Native Americans on the Fort Berthold reservation in North Dakota,...
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Time for Real Talk About Power, White Privilege, and Conservation
In 2007, Eh Ler Tha immigrated to the United States from a refugee camp in Thailand. He was nine years old. His family relocated to San Diego, where he later enrolled in City Heights High School....
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The Rise of Toxic Skin Lightening Creams
In community centers in Minnesota’s metro areas, young Somali girls are breaking an unspoken taboo to talk about a subject that, for them, could quite literally be poisonous: beauty.Somali men want...
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The Kids Are on Strike
In Australia, thousands of children, ranging in age from five to 18, organized a walkout of their classrooms on November 30 in protest of adult inaction on climate change.The group was inspired by a...
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Eco Warrior
Last November, Sierra Club President Loren Blackford received an email informing her that she’d been identified as an “Eco Warrior” by Mission Magazine, a not-for-profit “fashion philanthropic" media...
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Meet Team Sierra
Team Sierra is the Sierra Club’s online fundraising community, allowing Sierra Club supporters to leverage their networks and creativity to raise critical funds to protect our planet. Here, the Team...
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#SchoolStrike4Climate Is Coming to a City Near You
On a chilly February day in New York City, about a dozen elementary, middle, and high school students gather around a PowerPoint presentation in a generic conference room. It could be a weekly meeting...
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Why Megan Rast Runs With Team Sierra
Name: Megan RastLocation: Denver, ColoradoContribution: Ran a half marathon with Team Sierra (teamsierra.org)What inspired you to run a half marathon and raise money for the Sierra Club?After the...
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College Republicans Want Their Party to Confront Climate Change
Kiera O’Brien grew up in Ketchikan, once Alaska’s first major trading post on the way up from the Lower 48. Her parents both work at Ketchikan High School, where her father teaches biology. In 2016,...
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This International Women’s Day, Meet the Girls Leading a Movement
Last August, when 16-year-old Greta Thunberg began her weekly sit-ins outside Sweden’s Parliament to protest inaction on climate change, she quietly started a global movement. Inspired young people...
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My Kids Will Skip School This Friday. Here’s Why I'm Letting Them.
As a parent, I spend about 60 percent of my brain power each day solving mundane problems: What should I fix for dinner? Do I need to stop at the grocery store? Did I fill out that permission slip? Did...
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My Kids Will Skip School This Friday. Here’s Why I'm Letting Them.
As a parent, I spend about 60 percent of my brain power each day solving mundane problems: What should I fix for dinner? Do I need to stop at the grocery store? Did I fill out that permission slip? Did...
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Wave of Activists Demand Green Congressional Agenda
In the lead-up to the November 2018 election, I was like many of you—wearing my soles thin knocking on doors and going hoarse from making calls for candidates I believed in. When the election results...
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Take Me to the River
Fran Silva-Blayney’s awareness of the world around her results from a life-long accumulation of keen observations. Now that her passion for addressing environmental issues is manifested in her work as...
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