We need to re-think the whole idea of recycling and make manufacturers responsible for the materials they use and the products they make from the beginning to the end of the product. Perhaps we need to move from “Reuse, Reduce, Recycle” back to “...

You heard that right. Six municipalities in Chester County are collaborating on executing an Energy Transition Plan. And 22 municipalities in Chester, Montgomery, Delaware and Bucks counties, located in Southeastern PA, are "sitting together" in a...

This year’s GreenFest Philly took a very different format. Instead of hundreds of people meandering between several blocks of booths learning about environmental issues and organizations with music in the background, this year it was held as a “...

In this age of food insecurity and food deserts, several organizations throughout Pennsylvania are working to improve access to healthy food in their local areas by hosting or running community gardens, while others collect and disseminate...

New words have crept into our vocabulary since March: Self-isolation. Social distancing. Pandemic. No-touch transactions. Fear about the COVID-19 pandemic has captured our focus. We now obsess about hand-washing, mask-wearing and who touched...

Chloe Selles, Eastern PA Community Organizer, lives in Harrisburg, but in her role supporting Ready for 100 programs (RF100), she speaks with many volunteer leaders from around the state. A leader call in late June began what will be an ongoing...

Eva Resnick-Day, Sierra Club Community Organizer in Pittsburgh, explained how the local Ready For 100 team shifted their priorities in response to the pandemic and the George Floyd killing. During the pandemic she said it quickly became clear that...

Hop Hopkins, the director of strategic partnerships for the Sierra Club, recently wrote an editorial for the Sierra Club magazine laying bare the intersection of environmentalism and equity, or conversely, white supremacy and the despoiling of the...

In December 2015 the City of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority reached an agreement to close the dark chapter of massive urban renewal begun 60 years before in the southwest neighborhood of Eastwick, and return to city...

As a white environmentalist in Pennsylvania, I, like many of my fellow Sierra Club members, am coming to grips with what it means to put equity and justice at the forefront of our work and to build alliances that center the Black experience as we...