Jersey Sierran Index

The NJ Chapter of the Sierra Club supports S-4468, a budget Resolution from Sen. Andrew Zwicker, which would ensure that all of the money allocated to NJ Transit bus is restricted to electrification projects.

Below is a summary of important recent news items reported by Sierra Club National.

Today, we use the relatively benign “climate change,” or the slightly more ominous “global warming.” Considering that humanity has populated Earth for just .01% of Earth’s existence, our short but highly destructive era deserves a more serious name.

There are numerous articles about choosing solar panels, but not many about your experiences with them after they are installed.

But, we must ask, are you a heavy hitter? Are you in a financial position to help us in a very special way? For purposes of this communication, we define a heavy hitter as someone who can comfortably make a donation of four figures or more to the NJ...

The Sierra Club, in conjunction with three other leading environmental, clean energy and climate organizations (League of Conservation Voters [LCV] Action Fund, the NRDC Action Fund, and Clean Energy for American Action [CE4A Action]), has endorsed...

This fall, the Club will once again exhibit at the annual NJ School Boards Association Workshop in Atlantic City. We’ll be there for two days of the event, October 22 and 23.

“I just want to say one word to you… Plastics.” This advice for Benjamin Braddock in the 1967 movie “The Graduate” presaged a bright future for plastics. While they have come to serve a panoply of seemingly indispensable functions, their...

To help address the serious lack of waste management regulation, government leaders should adopt Skip the Stuff laws—removing single-use plastic items from delivery orders—and consider expanding current EPR legislation to reduce plastics waste, too.

On a mid-July Saturday, Sierra Club offered hikers a good walk on an almost undiscovered trail: the Radio Beacon Trail of the Assunpink Wildlife Management Area, a well-hidden gem at the southeast corner of the tract, near Allentown.