Facing increasingly warmer winters, most ​PA ​ski resorts face certain extinction within 30 years. Yet they refuse to support candidates who would help their business surviveLike no other industry, the skiing business critically depends on cold...

Want to double your gas mileage? Drive your car half way to work. Get your bike out and ride the rest of the way. I used to park at the Exton Mall and ride on the Chester Valley trail to my job in Great Valley. On bad weather days, or softball...

 by Nathaniel Smith For a century, Americans have legitimately looked to their federal government to defend them against abuses from within. The shocking death toll of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire inspired a stream of...

Happy New Year!I hope everyone had a good holiday break. I did. The family is great. Lots of storytelling. Some of them true. This is my end-of-year blog post. I hope to do periodic SPG posts in 2018. I invite you to contribute as well. More...

2017 Paint Chester County Art Show, Sale & Fundraiser

There are areas in the West where herds of wild horses live on a small portion of public lands.  They are orders of magnitude outnumbered by privately owned cattle and sheep that graze on the majority of public lands.  The Bureau of Land...

On September 13th, the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) commissioners - including Governor Wolf - voted to direct the DRBC staff to develop revised draft rules to be published no later than Nov. 30th related to hydraulic fracturing (fracking...

The Sierra Club nationwide has prioritized the pursuit of equity, inclusion & justice throughout the organization, especially so since the board made a pivotal decision in 2013 to make this an urgent commitment.  There was a realization...

We used to put our trash can at the curb for pickup once a week, but I noticed a few years ago that with the increase in the number of items that could be recycled, we could put it out less often.  In 2016, we put the trash can out...

For Mother EarthWhat's causing this disturbance?This instabilityWhat's causing me to toss and turn at night?What's stopping my mind from relaxing?What's holding me back from dreaming?What's holding me back from falling asleep?Woman,I am torn into...