Sierra Club Celebrates Juneteenth 2021
June 27, 2021
In honor of Juneteenth 2021, which has special significance as the first year that Juneteenth has been designated as a federal holiday, the Sierra Club Pennsylvania Chapter has made several donations on the Group level to organizations around the...
Monarchs Are Welcome
June 26, 2021
David Sublette, a long-time Sierra Club member in Erie, PA, led an effort last summer to make sure Monarch butterflies migrating through Erie knew they were welcome. With help from a Huplits Wildlife Grant, a section of McClelland Park has been...
Rusty pipes, Leaking gas -- Mapping methane leaks in Philly
June 26, 2021
A group of volunteers from Sierra Club’s Southeastern PA Group has commissioned an exploratory mapping of gas leaks in Philadelphia. They have connected with Gas Safety USA for this mapping, the same people who mapped gas leaks in Boston a few years...
Fracking and a Community Turned Upside-down
June 26, 2021
Between 2011 and 2018, the greater Williamsport area was transformed from a small city surrounded by bucolic countryside into a gritty industrial park consisting of parking lot-sized well pads cleared of all trees, drilling rigs towering over...
A Volatile Gas Project Ignites a Groundswell of Opposition in Marple Township
June 26, 2021
There had been a service station with gas pumps there for as long as I can remember, right on the corner just past the modest little strip mall and fast food joint. As the only gas on the west side of State Route 320 for many miles, that part of...
“Trash to Steam” Equals Trash to Ill Health
June 26, 2021
“When you’re living among the trash, you begin to feel like trash yourself.” So said Zulene Mayfield about her neighborhood close to the Covanta Resource Recovery Facility, which is a waste incinerator, also called “trash to steam,’ in Chester, PA...
California’s Disappearing Kelp Forests and Why it Matters for You
June 26, 2021
Kelp forests, underwater coastal areas that contain “canopies” of the algae kelp, sustain a large number of species, which make them typically very resilient ecosystems. However, Northern California’s kelp forests have decreased in size by 95% from...
Get to know... Tracy Daniels
June 26, 2021
Tracy Daniels is one of those special volunteers who suggests a new idea and then is willing to take the lead in making it happen. One such idea is the position of Group Advocate. The Pennsylvania Chapter Executive Committee (ExCom) recently...
Don Quixote Exists in Pennsylvania
June 26, 2021
Our faith group, the Unitarian Environmental Justice Committee, on this momentous 50th anniversary of Pennsylvania’s Environmental Rights Amendment (ERA), will recognize Senator Franklin Kury for his tireless work in protecting Pennsylvania’s...
Women on High: Pioneers of Mountaineering
June 26, 2021
Stories of sweeping landscapes, tragic hardships, and epic treks to the most remote regions of the world--these are the tales that define the genre of mountaineering and adventure literature. These are the tales that always interest me as an avid...