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Get free goodies for choosing 100% renewable electricity!
December 3, 2018
The benefits of clean energy speak for themselves: a cleaner planet and a guilt-free conscience! But to sweeten the deal even more, the Sierra Club is offering free gear to our members who sign up for the 100% renewable electricity program offered...
Plant a tree to improve local air quality
December 3, 2018
After enduring weeks of smoky skies from the devastating Camp Fire, air quality is at the top of many people's minds right now. One way to improve air quality locally is by planting trees. Join the Sierra Club Tree Team at our monthly planting...
Members: Vote for your local Sierra Club representatives by Dec. 14
December 3, 2018
In order for the Sierra Club to make an impact commensurate with the enormity of the threats facing the environment today, we need our members to be active and engaged. Right now, that means voting in the election for your local Sierra Club...
Park at your own risk: What we all have to lose from parking-rich city planning
December 3, 2018
We’re used to seeing parking as an ordinary feature of the urban landscape, in lots, garages, and all along our streets. But it’s time to reimagine our cities. We must shift our focus away from fulfilling the extreme demand for parking and towards...
Controversial Tassajara Parks development aims to breach urban limit line
November 28, 2018
The controversial 125-unit “Tassajara Parks” project planned for the protected side of the County’s Urban Limit Line, next to Danville, has been on hold for months. Now that the elections have settled some political questions bearing on ultimate...
Band-aid on a broken leg? Chevron settles with EPA over 2012 Richmond refinery fire
November 28, 2018
Unknown to personnel in Richmond’s Chevron refinery, the walls of an eight-inch pipe carrying a 450-degree, high-sulfur oil distillation were getting dangerously thin. Refinery personnel were aware that sulfur in material flowing through a carbon...
As the crows—and other birds—fly
November 28, 2018
We tend to think of birds as very similar, but according to Eddie Bartley, they can be as different from each other as a giraffe is from a mouse. This difference in bird species is especially true when it comes to migration, a stressful and risky...
SF interests clash over Bay-Delta restoration plan
November 28, 2018
Shockingly, San Francisco's water agency has sided with the Trump administration to oppose the Bay-Delta restoration plan — even though the science is clear that we can protect water supplies for San Francisco and revive our waterways.
Oakland terminates lease for would-be coal exporter
November 28, 2018
In a dramatic new challenge to developer Phil Tagami’s plan to export coal through a new marine terminal at the former army base in West Oakland, the City of Oakland has announced that the 66-year lease on the city-owned property has been terminated...
How the midterms results affect water issues in California
November 20, 2018
We are very pleased that California voters rejected Proposition 3, the poorly crafted, pay-to-play water bond. Prop. 3 would have sent $750 million taxpayer dollars to reconstruct the San Joaquin Valley’s Friant-Kern Canal — an infrastructure...