Blog posts from around the country

Ohio
Clean Water Apprentice, Destiny Allen, is completing her time with the Sierra Club and heading off to Togo, Africa.
Lone Star Chapter
We live in a politically polarized age—particularly in the state of Texas. Renewables are either a godsend or a pipe dream. Fossil fuels are either our economic bedrock or a culprit of climate change disaster. So it’s refreshing when strange…
Grand Canyon Chapter
Phoenix, AZ – Today, Governor Ducey vetoed both SB1268 and SB1400, two bills that would have weakened important water adequacy requirements. Sierra Club and conservation groups across the state, as well as many water experts, had worked hard to try…
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
For the past two years I have scheduled a Houston Sierra Club outing for the Great Egret Ridge Trail in the Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge (TRNWR). Normally...
Maryland Chapter
It is International Compost Awareness Week and the Institute for Local Self-Reliance has been releasing infographics every day to illustrate the many ways compost goes much deeper than dirt!
Piasa Palisades Group / Sierra Club Illinois Chapter / Illinois
On reading the November 2015 UNICEF report, “Unless we act now: The impact of Climate Change on Children”, I was struck by the failure, mine included, to include children i
Piasa Palisades Group / Sierra Club Illinois Chapter / Illinois
The May 9th Speaker Series will be the last one before we take a break to enjoy summer. The series will return with more great programs in the month of September.
Piasa Palisades Group / Sierra Club Illinois Chapter / Illinois
Our Speaker for our May 2016 Speaker Series Program is William Klopfenstein, respected educator from Edwardsville.
Lone Star Chapter
If you’re over 30, you may remember a time when lawn watering entailed dragging a hose around the yard at dusk. If you’re like us, you did this as a chore and didn’t realize that using the hose was one of the most water conserving ways to irrigate…
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
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