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.
Start of National Drive Electric Week at BED Net Zero Energy Festival
September 25, 2023
The Vermont Sierra Club was excited to be a part of the Burlington Electric Department Net Zero Energy Festival to kick off National Drive Electric Week. There are other events planned throughout our region for the week, check out https...
Make Big Oil Pay
September 22, 2023
Climate change is hitting Vermont hard and costing Vermonters billions. Meanwhile, Big Oil is making record profits. The world’s largest oil companies like ExxonMobil and Chevron knew about the dangers of climate change for decades. They deceived...
Are you headed to a National Drive Electric Week Event? September 23-October 1.
September 11, 2023
Attend a National Drive Electric Week event near you! If you have an electric vehicle you can register to show it at one of these events by visiting: https://driveelectricweek.org
Shift of the market to smaller, safer, vehicles with Feebates
September 8, 2023
This commentary was submitted to the Vermont Sierra Club by former Vermont State House Transportation Committee Chairman Curt McCormack. Former Representative Curt McCormack received an award from the Sierra Club for his leadership on...
Building a bike corridor along U.S. Route 5
August 23, 2023
Written By Robb Kidd, Vermont Sierra Club Conservation Program Manager
This past session, the Vermont Legislature authorized a survey to explore a bike corridor along U.S. Route 5 on VT’s eastern border. The Vermont Sierra Club strongly supports...
Paying for Solar
August 23, 2023
This commentary was submitted to the Vermont Sierra Club by Peter Grant, a Sierra Club member in Bristol, Vermont, and is posted here with permission.
One thing the Club can do is help people go solar. I keep hearing that solar...
One Easy Trick to Fight Climate Change Slow Down to Save the Planet (and Your Wallet!)
August 18, 2023
This blog was written by Bob McKearin, a Sierra Club member in Burlington, and adopted by Sierra Club Volunteer Communications Leader Rick Morris of Waterbury
Vermont's Climate Action Commission came up with 17 long-term solutions...
Route 5 Bicycle Corridor
July 27, 2023
Written by Karl Keminitzer, Hartland, Vermont Sierra Club Tranpsortation Team
This fall our Vermont transportation agency VTrans will be surveying towns and regional planning commissions along Route 5 to find out how interested they are...
Vermont's Clean Heat Standard: A Path to Environmental and Economic Success
July 14, 2023
Op-ed Written by Sierra Club Volunteer Executive Committee Member Isaac Evans-Franz,
As I drove through the rain the other day, as the storm began, I passed a woman pushing a shopping cart, full of bedding soaking up the rain, down Route 5. Over...
What the anti-renewable energy crowd gets wrong about solar and renewable energy
July 10, 2023
This commentary is by Robb Kidd, conservation program manager for the Vermont Sierra Club, based in Montpelier. Originally published in VT Digger July 7, 2023.
For over 200 years, we have powered our modern society by burning ever-increasing...