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For years, we in Washington supported First Nations legal fees against the Trans Mountain pipeline in a fundraising effort called Pull Together. We organized events and had a blast building community while we worked to stop the project. Our...

Evergreen July 2020 | The Greatest Environmental Threat

People typically accept things as they are. Looking deeper, nearly everything around us has been set up where and how they are. Planners, politicians, and policies put them there and incentivized what followed—be it tourism, traffic jams, housing,...

The latest anniversary had me wondering: as a volunteer-led organization how have we remained dynamic and responsive for more than a century? How do we as change-makers, respond to the need for changing our work? I had a conversation with a longtime...

Terms like “white fragility” and “whiteness” may be new to you. So too, may be the acknowledgment of your own privilege and of institutionalized racism. In the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder, there is now greater social pressure for white people...

When I first heard of the concept of reparations as a high school student, I used my immigrant status to avoid taking any responsibility for the racial inequalities that exist in the US. But, as I grew into my late 20s, and with help from anti-...

As an environmental organization, it may seem strange for us to be taking a stance on policing issues. Many know the Sierra Club for our work on national parks, clean energy, salmon restoration, and the like. But at the heart of all of these issues...

Last week, Washington State issued an updated revenue forecast showing a nearly $9 billion projected state budget deficit over the next three years, including a $4.5 billion deficit through June 2021. This harsh reality of the COVID-19 economic...

The fossil fuel industry is on the ropes: coal is permanently declining and oil companies are announcing bankruptcy left and right. But a third fossil fuel is still expanding into our communities every day: “natural” gas. Now the industry has...

The Washington Sierra Club unequivocally believes that Black Lives Matter, and stands with those protesting the tragedy of George Floyd’s murder, the life-crushing injustice of our criminal justice system, and the ugliness of institutional racism in...