North Star Blog

Saint Paul's Climate Justice Advisory Board (CJAB) was established in 2020 to work toward carbon neutrality for the city and its residents. Board member Dominique Diaddigo-Cash details the work of the board over the past 2 years, and their...

In the last year, the Clean Energy Team...

When a majority white-led organization such as the Sierra Club approaches a BIPOC-led environmental justice organization with an offer “to partner,” it can land with a great deal of ambivalence and skepticism. Case in point: recently, our Clean...

On one side of our planet’s tipping point is life as we know it. On the other, as UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres puts it, are “major cities under water; unprecedented heatwaves; terrifying storms; widespread water shortages; the extinction of...

Do you wish you knew more about Sierra Club advocacy actions, events, and outings happening across Minnesota? We’d love to tell you about them.

In Minnesota, each two-year term of the state legislature is considered one biennium. With a divided legislature and an anti-environment majority in the Senate, we approached the biennium with tempered short-term expectations and a long-term plan....

On August 9th, we have a clear choice between Alicia Kozlowski, a clean water and community-health champion, and Arik Forsman who sides with multinational corporations and their harmful projects from Enbridge’s Line 3 to PolyMet. Be a voter this...

Our Wisconsin and Michigan neighbors are working to protect the Great Lakes from Enbridge’s aged Line 5 crude oil pipeline, and from the corporation’s plan to build an even larger pipeline in its place. Line 5 is part of Enbridge’s US network, which...

Updates from our Forests and Wildlife Stewards.

Updates from our Zero Waste Team.