North Star Blog

Five of Minnesota’s leading advocacy organizations today announced an alliance to push for zero-emission transportation solutions statewide. MN350​, Fresh Energy​, Sierra Club North Star Chapter​, TakeAction MN​, and ISAIAH​ have agreed to...

At the end of July, I started in my new role as the Duluth Organizing representative for the Sierra Club. I have lived in Duluth for nearly a decade and come from years of community organizing around local and statewide housing and homelessness...

Today in Bemidji, I joined partners from across our movement to risk arrest in order to escalate our call to stop Line 3. The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) failed Minnesotans when they approved the Line 3 pipeline, siding with a...

Today, the Trump Administration directly threatened the future of Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, one of America’s iconic wilderness areas.

It’s no surprise air pollution is a major threat to our health and the environment, and our vehicles are a major contributor to this problem. In fact, more than 80% of people living in urban areas are exposed to air quality levels that exceed WHO...

The Sierra Club North Star Chapter endorsed in 63 state races and environmental champions won in 56 of them! See our updated list of endorsements.  In 2018 we ran our biggest political program to date - launching SierraVotes - and it paid off...

We can use equity in a sentence… “Here at___we strive to achieve equity for all citizens”, but what does that mean? What does it weigh? How can we as people go about defining fairness in relatively complex world? The question of equity is at the...

Finally, some good news! The PolyMet rider was removed from the federal defense spending bill. Sierra Club activists (that’s you!) spoke up alongside numerous partner organizations to fight back against PolyMet's sweetheart deal to trade public...

Recently, Minnesota’s Public Utilities Commission made a critical decision about the direction that this pipeline fight would take. They were responsible for deciding whether a certificate of need and route permit would be issued to Enbridge....

It is not too late to reduce plastic pollution in our oceans and ultimately, produce less waste for the planet. One action step that is so simple is skipping the straw.