Chapter Updates

Our newest staff organizer, Terilyn Chen, will work across three Northern California Sierra Club chapters — the San Francisco Bay Chapter, the Redwood Chapter, and the Mother Lode Chapter. What do these three chapters all have in common? Among...

Corporations are pushing unpopular projects through city and county planning departments with little care for the well being of the communities they claim they are serving. Fortunately, grassroots groups have organized to fight these projects,...

On February 9 Sierra Club California followed the lead of Redwood Chapter and other chapters and groups across the state in declaring a climate emergency.  “There’s no time to waste,” said Chapter Climate Committee Chair Randal MacDonald. “...

Redwood Chapter members attended the Bay Conservation and Development Commission’s Workshop on Economic Justice on Jan. 17 in San Francisco. Recognizing impacts that may come from developments on economically challenged communities, the...

Petaluma residents fighting a proposed Safeway gas station on the west side of town have had a rollercoaster of a ride since they banded together in the summer of 2018. The group, all of whom live in the residential neighborhood near the corner of...

On Feb. 4, transit activists will draw attention to the importance of affordable and accessible bus service in actions across the country. The date honors Rosa Parks on her birthday, a nod to her refusal to give up her seat on the bus in 1955,...

Before Thanksgiving the California Department of Justice (DOJ) sent a 13-page letter to the City of Vallejo criticizing the Draft Environmental Impact Report on the deep water port called Vallejo Marine Terminal and the proposed cement factory...

by Felice Pace, North Group Water Chair When I first began paying attention to logging in Northern California back in the late 1970s, operations (often called “shows” by the loggers) invariably were completely shut down during winter. That was...

January In response to the horrific wildfires of October 2017, Sierra Club joined a coalition to raise and disperse funds to some of the most vulnerable people affected by the fires and initiatives to aid conservation and future fire protection....

The following is a press release Leslie Lukacs, chair of the Zero Waste North Bay group, prepared for the Press Democrat. It is an update on the Sebastopol City Council adoption of the Zero Waste Resolution accepted by the Sonoma County Waste...