Want to bring people outside to explore, enjoy, and help protect our region's most beautiful places? Become a Sierra Club outings leader! The Sierra Club Outings program trains volunteers to lead a variety of outings from short local hikes to longer treks and service trips.
Training to be an outings leader can help you develop the skills and confidence you need to help others have safe and enjoyable experiences outdoors, while also teaching others how to advocate for the places they love! Join us today:
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It is no secret that the environmental challenges we face are immense and ever-growing, which means we need each other now more than ever. So whether you join an outing as a participant or sign up to become an outings leader, I hope to see you out there! Let’s learn together, get inspired, have fun, and find our people, so we can face these challenges and meet the moment together.
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After 20 years of inaction, the National Parks Service (NPS) is accepting public comment on their proposed Air Tour Management Plans (ATMPs) for Mt Rainier and Olympic National Parks until August 28th. This is the first time NPS is attempting to manage commercial air tours in these parks, and the only opportunity for public to provide input. It is crucial to tell NPS to end commercial air tours in these parks because:
- These two national parks are almost entirely designated wilderness and are valued for their backcountry and natural experience.
- These two parks serves as habitat for numerous federally-listed threatened and endangered species including marbled murrelet and northern spotted owl. The NPS has identified both as likely to be disrupted by noise pollution.
- There is almost no demand for air tours at these parks now. They serve no purpose for access or protection of park resources, and potentially degrade that experience.
- They can be banned with little economic impact but doing so would contribute to protecting the park resources and experience.
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Right now, Congress has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to shape our society and economy by passing a bold infrastructure package to tackle climate change, create jobs, and address racial injustice; and crucial democracy reforms like the For the People Act.
We’re calling on our elected leaders in Washington to act with urgency and fully commit to transformational investments in the infrastructure package that will shape our society and economy for years to come. Join us to learn more about the important role Washingtonians are playing!
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In case you missed the Northwest Tribes' Salmon Orca Summit in July, you can watch the highlights by clicking the button below. Check it out!
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WA for Black Lives
Organizing together to demand economic, political, and social justice in our state.
Washington for Black Lives is a unified Black-led coalition of organizations across the state building on the innate power of our communities.
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The Northwest Community Bail Fund
The Northwest Community Bail Fund (NCBF) works to ensure that people accused of low-level crimes have an equal opportunity to defend themselves from a position of freedom. |
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Last week, the U.N. published a landmark report — detailing the current state of global climate change. One thing's for sure, humans are causing a lot of this extreme weather by emitting greenhouse gases. NPR's Climate Correspondent Rebecca Hersher gives Emily three key takeaways from the report that might surprisingly help everyone feel a little more hopeful. |
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As Susi Moser writes in All We Can Save, “Burnt-out people aren’t equipped to serve a burning planet … [so] the well-being of our hearts and souls must be reestablished to their rightful place as relevant, essential.” The climate crisis has many folks feeling on the edge. How can we cope, care, and heal? What do our emotions have to teach us? Can climate work and leadership grow from a more rooted, powerful place?
What I found was a nation on the cusp of a great transformation. Across the United States, some 162 million people — nearly one in two — will most likely experience a decline in the quality of their environment, namely more heat and less water. For 93 million of them, the changes could be particularly severe, and by 2070, our analysis suggests, if carbon emissions rise at extreme levels, at least four million Americans could find themselves living at the fringe, in places decidedly outside the ideal niche for human life.
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“We’ve witnessed this over 19 years, that coming together in unity and prayer can move mountains. It can stop coal trains. It can stop pipelines,” said Douglas, who also goes by Sit-Ki-Kadem. “The intention is just sparking inspiration, because they’re trying to take the last pieces of sacred land that we have, and they want to strip it and harvest everything in it.”
Low-density developments produced nearly four times the greenhouse gas emissions of high-density alternatives, with research finding that doubling urban density can reduce carbon pollution from household travel by nearly half and residential energy use by more than a third.
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