The Vermont Sierra Club blog is a tool to improve connections with our membership on a regular basis, to be more public about our stands on important policy issues, and to bring more people into our active circles of engagement. Check back here regularly for we will be posting here regularly in the coming weeks.
2024 Winter Gathering Video and pictures.
December 18, 2024
On December 8 at the new Montpelier Performing Arts Center, The Vermont Sierra Club hosted our annual Winter Gathering. We hosted Sierra Club Executive Director Ben Jealous, Bill McKibben, and our award winners in this festive gathering. See...
Re: Activists Want to Remake Shelburne Road After Cyclist is Killed
December 3, 2024
The following submission is a letter from Sierra Club Transportation Team member David Ellenbogen in response to the Seven Days article, "Activists Want to Remake Shelburne Road After Cyclist is Killed." This article references the urgent need...
Vermont Sierra Club announces candidates for Vermont Executive Committee
November 26, 2024
The Vermont Chapter of the Sierra Club has nine excellent candidates running for the Chapter’s Executive Committee. The Executive Committee consists of nine members elected by Vermont Chapter members. Please only vote for no more than nine...
Vermont State road Standards (VSS) update, VTRANS is holding public meetings
November 18, 2024
VTrans has been working internally with consultants VHB and Toole Design on updating the design guidelines for how our roads are built (the Multimodal Development and Delivery program, M2D2, 2015). The current standards are from 1997 and while...
Birding with Rutland County Audubon
October 10, 2024
This past Tuesday, a few Vermont Sierra Club leaders joined the Rutland County Audubon for a bird walk along the D&H Rail Trail and the Castleton Trails. On the walk, we observed 32 different species of birds. See the entire list of birds...
Sierra Club mourns loss of former Representative Curt McCormack
September 26, 2024
The Vermont Chapter is sad that the former Vermont House Transportation Committee Chair Curt McCormack has recently passed away. Curt was a vital ally of the Chapter, and in 2021 the Chapter honored him with a legislative award....
Moving Forward with the VT Sierra Club Executive Committee, and you?
September 5, 2024
We hope you are well as we move through the summer! It's clear no matter what happens come November, we have our work cut out for us in Vermont, and for that we need you!
As the Vermont Sierra Club Chapter moves our advocacy efforts into the...
Are you Electrified in your ride yet?
July 30, 2024
We have made a lot of progress advancing clean transportation options in Vermont, however, we are still far short of replacing all internal combustion engine vehicles with electric vehicles. The Vermont Sierra Club will be involved in two...
If its not fun why do it?
July 12, 2024
Vermonter Jerry Greenfield of Ben Jerry's once stated “If its not fun, why do it?," and its something we think of here at the Vermont Sierra Club.
Remember as a club, we do more than just talk politics and...
VT Adopts Bill to Ban Bee-Killing Pesticides Overcoming Gov. Scott's Veto
June 18, 2024
After nearly a decade of advocating for the banning of neonicotinoid pesticides, the Vermont General Assembly successfully overrode Governor Scott's shortsighted veto and adopted H.706. With a dedicated coalition of advocates and citizen activists...