Spring 2019: Sylvanian Newsletter
June 6, 2019
Welcome to our third online-only edition of the Sylvanian, our long-running Chapter Newsletter!
Going Zero on Plastics
June 5, 2019
Sierra Club has taken on the issue of plastics, particularly single-use plastics. So I have been
trying to live without single use plastics and it seems I have to give up a lot more than just single
use plastics since most packaging is, at least...
Environmental Fiction
June 5, 2019
I just finished reading two novels (Barkskins by Annie Proulx and The Overstory by Richard Power) with no thought that the themes might connect. Both are about our profligate use of trees and destruction of forests. I was primed for the topic...
Equity Principles in Practise: My PGM ONE Experience
June 4, 2019
The PGM ONE summit reclaims the narrative of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) from one that is centered on helping minority people feel included in majority white spaces to one that acknowledges that black/people of color are here and are a...
Wildlife Grant Helps Restore a Damaged Forest
June 4, 2019
In a remarkable turn of fortune, a 110-acre invasives-overrun property where the hides of slaughtered animals once arrived by the railroad carload for tanning, is being restored to a forest of native trees with some help from a Sierra Club Huplits...
Governors of PA, NJ, and DE Pledge to Restore Delaware River Watershed
May 31, 2019
For the first time since the signing of the Delaware River Basin Commission Compact in 1961, the Governors of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware came together for the Delaware River Governors’ Leadership Summit in Philadelphia to make a shared...
Winter 2019: Sylvanian Newsletter
March 14, 2019
Welcome to our second online-only edition of the Sylvanian, our long-running Chapter Newsletter!
Small Grants: Gas Pipeline & Related Infrastructure Issues
March 11, 2019
Small grants to help groups and organizations working on shale gas pipeline and related infrastructure issues
Privatization By Any Other Name...Is Still Privatization
February 22, 2019
One of the major dangers of neglecting of our infrastructure is that private corporations, who sit on large piles of cash, are only too willing to intervene in a crisis with promises to fix things. They are able to take a longer view to earn huge...
Pennsylvanians Speak Out: Clean Water Threatened
February 22, 2019
“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania’s public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including...