Sierra Club Comments on Compartments 48, 49, and 53 Project in Sam Houston National Forest The Houston Regional Group and Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club (Sierra Club) submitted scoping comments to the U.S. Forest Service (FS) for the...

Old mattresses are bulky and take up lots of room in land fills. And 90% of mattress materials are recyclable: polyurethane foam, cotton, steel coils, and wood. Many cities are now diverting old mattresses from the waste stream, and recycling...

Welcome to the Houston Sierra Club online Bayou Banner newsletter for September 2016. Click the title to see the news this month.

(To read the full story, please click on the article headline above) Each December the Houston Group holds an election to fill positions on the Group’s nine member Executive Committee (Excom). The Houston Sierra Club is now soliciting nominations...

On August 16th through 18th, the Climate Reality Project came to Texas, training hundreds of people from all over the United States and the world to be advocates on behalf of the climate and to empower others with knowledge to create a culture of...

Here are a few well edited videos that illustrate and explain the glass recycling process. Advances in glass sorting technologies...

The City of Houston has added more glass recycling drop off locations in recent weeks. Through a new partnership with Strategic Materials Inc., North America's largest glass recycler, the City is trying to provide citizens with more options to...

The Galveston Bay Estuary Program has set October 2016 for the first public workshop for revision of the 21 year old Galveston Bay Plan (GBP, officially called a Comprehensive Conservation...

Welcome to the Houston Sierra Club online Bayou Banner newsletter for August 2016. Click the title to see the news this month.

Did you know that most Texans believe global warming is real? But fewer than half believe that if global warming is happening, it is caused mostly by human activities. Three in ten Texans believe it is caused mostly by natural changes in the...