Stop Setting Your Thermostat at 72 - Use a Fan, by Adam Clark Estes, Courtesy of Vox
July 7, 2024
Setting your thermostat just a single digit higher can help you save 6 percent on your cooling costs, according to the EPA. Read on. Article is courtesy of Vox.
What the Student Interns Are Doing, by Scott Thomason
June 2, 2024
Paulina Z. Enlightens Students About Environmental Awareness
Recently, Paulina Viera Zambrano conducted an informative session on environmental importance at Donaldson Way Elementary in American Canyon. Ms. Zambrano engaged a class of second and...
Invasion! Why English Ivy Is a Danger to Trees, by Chris Sauer
June 2, 2024
English Ivy found its way to America with the British immigrants way back when and subsequently hitched its way to our Coast in the westward migration! Not being native to our coastal environments, it has no natural enemies (i.e., animals, insects,...
My Tramping Adventure on the Milford Track in New Zealand. Part Two, by Nick Cheranich
March 28, 2024
This is Part Two of my adventure on the 5-day Milford Track in New Zealand, considered by many to be "the finest walk in the world."
CEQA: What Exactly Is It and Why Should We Keep It Around? by Elayna Trucker
March 16, 2024
A little over 50 years ago, riding the high of the brand-new Environmental Protection Act, then-Governor Reagan signed into law the California Environmental Quality Act - CEQA (pronounced “see-kuah”) - which has played a major role in how...
My Sierra Club Women’s Outings Adventure, by Samantha Smith
November 21, 2023
Since the inception of the Sierra Club, one of the motivations in creating outings like this was to allow people to enjoy and experience the wonders of Nature, and then importantly, from that experience, they would work to preserve Nature. That was...
A Fond Farewell, by Chris Benz
November 21, 2023
This December I will finish my fifth (and final) term on the Napa Group’s Executive Committee, completing 10 years of service. In looking back at the experience, I can sum it up in three words: WELL WORTH IT! Not just for the environmental victories...
Earth Is Now Well Outside of the Safe Operating Space for Humanity, from a Study Published in “Science Advances” Magazine
September 27, 2023
This is an excerpt from a research article by Kathrine Richardson, et al, which was recently published in Science Advances Magazine. The entire article can be found here.
The transgression of a majority of Earth’s nine planetary...
My Summer Environmental Program at Brown University, by Paulina Viera Zambrano
July 27, 2023
Hello everyone! My name is Paulina Viera Zambrano. I’m currently a rising sSenior (class of 2024) at Vintage High School and one of the three interns with the Napa Sierra Club Group. This summer I applied and got accepted into one of the Pre-College...
Save the Planet, Put Down that Hamburger, by Cara Buckley (from the NY Times)
July 24, 2023
Researchers from Oxford examined the diets of 55,500 people and found that vegans are responsible for 75 percent less in greenhouse gases than meat-eaters.