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By one estimate, the Bay Area will be home to an additional two million new residents by 2040. The Bay Chapter works to reduce our collective impact on the earth and preserve natural resources for future generations by promoting sustainable...

Parks — from our great wild national parks to little slivers of green in the city — are essential for both wildlife and for human welfare. The Bay Chapter campaigns to secure funding for the acquisition, improvement, and maintenance of our public...

It's a fact that low-income and minority communities bear a disproportionate share of the impacts of environmental degradation. The Bay Chapter works in partnership with impacted communities to fight for a system that protects and empowers each...

The Bay Chapter works to protect the San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta — the watershed at the heart of the Bay Area — as well as on smaller local watersheds, both wild and urban. We also work to protect and restore rivers and...

Sea level rise endangers the Bay's fragile ecology and threatens critical infrastructure, industry, and housing, with disproportionate impacts on the region’s low-income residents and communities of color. So what’s the solution? The Sierra Club,...

In the urbanized Bay Area, how much of the "wild" do we have? Actually quite a lot. Over the Bay Chapter’s 90-year history we’ve played a major role in campaigns to preserve our world-renowned wild places and establish the laws that protect our...

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