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| | 2020 Election |
We’re throwing our weight behind the effort to boost voter turnout on Election Day because our freedoms and our democracy depend on it. We plan to contact millions of pro-environment voters who vote only infrequently. Getting a phone call reminding them to vote could make the difference in getting them to cast a ballot.
Volunteer today from the comfort of your home—a few hours a week can make a huge impact. |
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| | | Sierra Club Outings |
As you may have seen, domestic trips that were scheduled to begin between now and the end of the year have been canceled to protect the safety of participants and staff. You can read about this decision on our Covid-19 Travel Update page. If you're looking ahead to next year, we have many enticing options, including international experiences and all manner of winter domestic trips. Many of our canceled 2020 trips have also been rebooked for 2021 and are now available for reservations.
See all trips and sign up. |
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| | En Español |
Four years of Donald Trump in the White House has left the country sick, diminished, and exhausted—a consequence of the administration’s unprecedented incompetency. Out on the hustings, in full-on (maskless) campaign mode, President Trump is promising four more years of the same. His plan to fight the pandemic is essentially to let the virus run its course, at a cost of millions of lives.
Vote as if your life depended on it—it just might. |
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| | | Sierra Magazine |
Acclaimed science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson terraformed the Red Planet in his award-winning Mars trilogy. With The Ministry for the Future, he breaks the near future into small pieces and reassembles them into a literary collage that maps human survival through the early 21st century.
Sierra magazine spoke to Robinson about his mind-bending new novel. |
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| | | New Podcast |
After a late-summer break, The Overstory is back with a new episode. We talk with energy reporter Antonia Juhasz, who explains why the COVID-19 pandemic may be the nail in the coffin for the global oil and gas industry. Juliet Grable, a frequent Sierra magazine contributor, talks about what it was like working as a volunteer firefighter battling the recent wildfires in Oregon. And our advice columnist Ms. Green has tips for how to recycle old underwear and socks.
Tune in, turn on, get clean and green. |
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| | | En Español |
Earlier this year, the Sierra Club welcomed Puerto Rican Ramón Cruz as the organization’s first Latino president. In this new video (en Español), he shares some of the Sierra Club’s work and accomplishments and invites us to join the Club. "There are so many ways to get involved,” Cruz says. “Become a volunteer, go on an excursion, sign a petition, make a donation, become a member.
"¡Tú eliges!" |
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| | | Take Action |
We've reached a milestone in our efforts to pass the THRIVE Resolution: In just over a month, 100 members of Congress have signed onto this Green New Deal–aligned recovery plan to put 16 million people back to work building an economy that advances climate, economic, and racial justice. But we need at least 25 more cosponsors, and chances are at least one of your members of Congress still hasn't signed on. Help us reach 125 cosponsors.
Ask your members of Congress to support the THRIVE Resolution. |
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| | | Take Action |
From national parks to urban green spaces and all the undeveloped places in between, our public lands play a crucial role in sequestering carbon, providing wildlife habitat, and protecting us from extreme weather. While Washington, DC, is mired in gridlock, state governments are scoring important victories protecting public lands and waters and improving access to the outdoors so that everyone can enjoy them. Scientists, activists, and now governors across the country are signing on to a bold new plan to protect 30 percent of our lands and waters by 2030.
Urge your governor to sign on to the 30 x 30 plan. |
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Since early summer, the 2,200+ coastal brown bears in Alaska's Katmai National Park & Preserve have been gorging on salmon, gaining more than two pounds a day to build up their fat reserves to survive hibernation. A record 800,000 salmon charged upstream to spawn this year in Katmai. “The bears are bigger than ever,” says former park ranger Mike Fitz, who now operates the bearcam at Explore.org. “The ecosystem is intact. It’s a very wild landscape with a diversity of healthy spawning and rearing habitats. It's operating at its full potential.”
But threats abound. Read more and check out the bearcam. |
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| | | Sierra Club Business Partnership |
The new Sierra Club x Parks Project collection—which includes tees, loungewear, hats, and more—gives 10 percent of every purchase back to the Sierra Club. Inspired by the people fighting on behalf of our environment every day, the collection underscores the importance of voting and green energy in our efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change.
Shop the collection. |
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| The COVID-19 crisis has not passed and continues to
disproportionately harm Black, Indigenous, and Latinx people and other communities of color. The pandemic has revealed how the communities hardest hit are often the same communities that suffer from high levels of pollution and poor access to healthcare. The fight for environmental justice cannot be separated from the fight for racial justice. |
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