Editor's Note: The global COVID-19 pandemic has affected everyone and everything, including the Sierra Club. Executive director Michael Brune writes about how the Sierra Club is adapting and responding to this crisis so that we can continue the important work of protecting our natural environment and fighting for a just, clean energy future.

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Support Organizations Keeping Communities Healthy and Safe

Difficult times like this bring into focus how much we depend on each other to act for a greater common good. Even as we practice social distancing, we must come together to work through this crisis. Although the pandemic affects everyone, vulnerable communities—seniors, those without access to healthcare, children, working families, and more—need our help right now.

In that spirit, we’re asking the Sierra Club community to help support key organizations on the front lines of the crisis.

Please make a donation to support on-the-ground COVID-19 relief efforts now.

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Pass a Stimulus That Helps Families, Communities, and the Environment

We must ensure that any stimulus package Congress passes focuses on building a future that puts families first, stabilizes our climate, and ends special treatment for the fossil fuel industry.

Tell Congress: Pass a stimulus that helps families, communities, and the environment.

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A Daily Ray of Hope

The Sierra Club has been offering a “Daily Ray of Hope” email for years, and we could all use a bit of that right now. Subscribers get a beautiful picture from the natural world along with some words of wisdom every morning.

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Natural Stress Relief

Spring is here—flowers are blooming, birds are singing. Yet the pandemic has forced millions of us to shelter indoors for the greater good. If done responsibly, getting outside can help us relieve the stress of social distancing and even stay healthy.

Sierra magazine's Jason Mark on a way to "stay safely apart yet still be together."

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Hope Is Also the Thing With Feathers

In North America, migratory birds are starting their journeys north to summer nesting and breeding grounds. But even if you’re quarantined, you can get your bird fix.

Four digital ways to learn about birds and connect with birders.

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Keeping Kids Curious and Engaged at Home

With many schools closed and families forced to stay indoors, Lisa Hoyos, the director of Sierra Club Climate Parents, has put together a list of tools and resources that includes lots of educational content and fun, safe activities to keep kids engaged.

Check out the list!

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Visit These 5 National Parks Online

If you’re cooped up at home alone or already getting sick of your kids, your partner, or that show you’ve been bingeing, ”The Hidden Worlds of the National Parks” is a satisfying escape. Whether you spend five minutes on the site or an hour, it’s an important reminder that the world is still beautiful and wonderful and weird, even in uncertain times.

Learn more about how you can take a digital adventure into your national parks.

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What to Read When You’re Stuck Inside

The beauty of books is that they can take us anywhere—even when we’re stuck inside. Whether you’re looking for something to borrow online from your library or order from your local independent bookseller, we have some suggestions.

For tree lovers: seven great books about trees.

For little picky eaters: 12 books to get them loving their peas, pears, and pumpkins.

View all book reviews.

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6 Windows on the Natural World

Photographing nature and wild places has long been an important way to build support for protecting them. The Sierra Club even has an Ansel Adams award for photographers whose work has been used to further conservation causes. But when you get right down to it, we just love looking at beautiful photographs of nature. And we could all use some more of that now. So here are seven of our favorites from the past few years. Enjoy and share!

From The Living Forest: A Visual Journey Into the Heart of the Woods by Robert Llewellyn.

From Trees: Between Earth and Heaven by Art Wolfe (Ansel Adams award winner).

From Silent Kingdom: A World Beneath the Waves by Christian Vizl.

From Wild Encounters by David Yarrow.

From Grizzlies of Pilgrim Creek by Thomas D. Mangelsen (Ansel Adams award winner).

And don’t miss these adorable baby animals by Suzi Eszterhas.

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Sierra Club Outings Update

Sierra Club Outings is working with the Sierra Club’s Safety, Security, and Emergency Preparedness team to protect our travelers, staff, and volunteers. What does that mean for your upcoming trip?

Learn more on the Outings website.

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Coronavirus Aid for People or Oil Companies?

As we all pull together to protect ourselves and the most vulnerable among us from the coronavirus pandemic, oil corporations are already using this crisis to negotiate sweetheart deals for polluters.

Tell your senators: Coronavirus aid should support people, not oil corporations.

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