Our September/October 2024 Newsletter

James was the winner of the Climate Creative Piece Contest held by our student friends at Napa Schools for Climate Action. He accepted our request to publish his poem here and on our newsletter.

On July 24th, 2024, I attended the first community meeting for the Napa County Regional Climate Action and Adaptation Plan (RCAAP) in Yountville. As one of my first experiences with climate politics on a local level, this meeting went really well....

Our July/August 2024 Newsletter

Two of our student interns hosted a Napa Sierra Club booth at a recent "Meet Me In the Street" event in American Canyon. Read about how it went.

The desire to enjoy nature and the outdoors, whether quietly or actively, with family and friends--be it for a day, overnight, a week, or a vacation--makes recreation lakes like Lake Berryessa so popular and beneficial to local economies. Urban...

Little did the Napa Sierra Club Group know that when several of its members decided to do a group bike ride as part of the Vine Trail Locomotion Fundraiser recently, it would literally come to the rescue of a California King snake, saving its life...

In the steep and rugged hills atop Napa Valley's headwaters sits a 60-year-old landfill with a checkered past and a litany of environmental violations, fires, employee complaints, lawsuits and neighbors relentlessly pleading with regulators and Napa...

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.

One of the most useful ways to really understand how we use energy and to know where that energy comes from is by using this flow chart (known as a Sankey Diagram) produced annually by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In this article, I...