North Star Blog

Today, fast-food workers, janitors, nursing home workers and other low-wage workers are coming together from across the country to strike for a $15-an-hour wage. The Sierra Club is proudly standing with workers in this fight for a living wage...

Communities came together on April 6th as Neighborhoods Organizing for Change (NOC) launched their Environmental Justice campaign with an organizing meeting. The subjects of discussion involved the Clean Power Plan (CPP) and the Hennepin Energy...

The Sierra Club North Star Chapter stands in solidarity with all who have worked for #Justice4Jamar. Our thoughts are with the family of Jamar Clark and the community following today’s decision.Every single Minnesotan deserves a healthy community...

Over the past two years, I have worked with other health professionals to create a health care team that is working hard to address Climate Change and Public Health issues. The team has adopted a name – Health Professionals for a Healthy Climate –...

As the #tumblebag campaign makes disturbingly clear, plastic bags are ubiquitous in our urban environment. When it comes to the plastic littering our streets, sewers, parks and lakes, less would definitely be more – which is why the Sierra Club...

On a spring-like Saturday morning on February 27, 2016, a group of twenty met at the Sierra Club office to venture to the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge. We left our cars and took the train from there! This Transit to Green Space...

Environmental values are Minnesota values. We treasure our natural resources; the lakes, rivers, streams, fresh air, forests, prairies, parks and open spaces that define so much of our state’s identity. It’s hard to imagine that publicly elected...

There has been a lot of buzz about caucuses in the news lately, and we all know they are used to endorse a presidential candidate, but how can you use a caucus to support issues you care about locally? Here is a brief overview of what a caucus is...

Growing up near the Great Lakes in Wisconsin, protecting our freshwater resources was not just a topic of conversation, but a way of life for me and my family. As the daughter of a groundwater geologist and a lawyer who worked on storm water...

Community voices were heard on February 9th, as members of the Seward neighborhood in Minneapolis voted to support a Hennepin County project to redesign the intersection of Franklin, Cedar, and Minnehaha Avenues, just down the street from the Sierra...