Blog posts from around the country
Pennsylvania Chapter
In 2004, then-Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell signed the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard (AEPS) Act into law, which required the state’s utilities and electricity suppliers to purchase a minimum amount of electricity from renewable or…
Pennsylvania Chapter
The Allegheny Group Sierra Club’s Huplits Grant Committee awarded about $140,000 in grants between July 2023 and January 2024. The funds for the grants originate from the Huplits Foundation Trust, a family charitable trust established in 1990. The…
Range of Light Group / Toiyabe Chapter / Nevada
Outings Chair
The outings chair would develop hike leaders and make sure everyone is up to date on their first aid and SC outings leader trainings. They would lead hikes as well.
North Star Chapter
Lithium ion batteries using high amounts of nickel have great energy density and storage capacity. Energy generation facilities and electric vehicle makers are expected to drive a 140% increase in demand for nickel by 2040.
Thomas Hart Benton Group / Missouri Chapter / Kansas City Missouri
For the past three years the local KC-area Sierra Club group has been working with Jackson County Parks + Rec to restore and improve the Eddy-Ballentine trail area at the County’s Blue River Parkway (south of Lakeside Nature Center and Swope Park).
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
On April 17, the speaker will be Clint Pustejovsky of Texas Snakes & More. At this meeting Clint will be discussing the snakes of Texas and those found in the Houston region.
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
Green Mountain Energy Earth Day in partnership with Citizens' Environmental Coalition (CEC),
is Earth Day at Discovery Green.
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
On April 11, our speaker will be Jill Boullion, Executive Director of the Bayou Land Conservancy.