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Summer of Collective Action

The Sierra Club has launched a major campaign to safeguard our democracy and win a bold climate infrastructure plan rooted in climate, racial, and economic justice. It's going to take all of us building collective power in our communities and putting pressure on our members of Congress to win the transformative change we need.

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Join an event or action near you, or host your own.




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Activists are walked through an Enbridge Line 3 pump station on June 7 after being arrested near Park Rapids, Minnesota. | Photo by Evan Frost/Minnesota Public Radio via AP
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Dispatch From the Line 3 Front Lines

“The Indigenous-led struggle against the Line 3 Pipeline is at a critical point,” says Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune. “Thousands of Native peoples and non-Native allies have traveled to encampments in northern Minnesota to stop the pipeline from being completed since construction started in December. I joined them last week because I believe this is one of the most important environmental struggles in the country right now.”

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Read more and find out how you can help stop Line 3.




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Red Road to DC

Last month, brothers Douglas and Jewell James set off from the Lummi Nation in Washington State to Washington, DC, with a 25-foot-tall totem pole strapped to the bed of a Dodge Ram 3500. At stops along the way the brothers set up the totem pole they carved to draw attention to Native sovereignty struggles in the US today, including resistance to the Line 3 Pipeline in the territory of the White Earth Ojibwe.

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Check out this postcard from their journey.




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Parks, Jobs, and Equity Act

White communities are three times more likely than Black and Brown communities to have easy access to nearby nature. To address this “nature equity gap,” a bipartisan group of senators has introduced the Parks, Jobs, and Equity Act to expand outdoor equity in urban areas, create jobs, boost the economy, and mitigate the effects of climate change.

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Tell your senators to cosponsor the Parks, Jobs, and Equity Act.




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Latino Conservation Week/

Semana Latina de la Conservacion

Learning about the importance of having access to the outdoors is a great way to honor Latino Conservation Week.


Celebramos las semana pasada con una taller de arte y conversando sobre la importancia que tiene la voz Latina en el movimiento conservacionista.

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Join the Struggle Against Line 3

Sierra Club members and supporters have urged President Biden to halt construction of the Line 3 tar sands pipeline in Minnesota. Now there's an Army Corps of Engineers official in place who could be instrumental in stopping Line 3. Longtime defender of Indigenous rights Jaime Pinkham, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, has bucked pipeline companies before, and we need him to do so again.

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Contact Assistant Secretary Pinkham today.




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Desperate Measures

From Arizona to Alabama, the gas industry’s own legislation has moved through statehouses with alarming speed. At least a dozen states have now passed laws prohibiting cities from restricting gas hookups in new construction, and just as many have introduced similar bills this year.

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Learn how the gas industry is looking out for #1.




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“Natural” Gas Miasma

The oil and gas industry has worked hard to propagate the term “natural gas” so it isn’t seen to be dirty like other fossil fuels. But fracked gas is a dirty fossil fuel, and it pollutes our air, water, and climate. The United States is the world’s biggest producer of fracked gas—most of it for export—and the oil and gas industry is eager to expand its business even further.

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Read more, and tell President Biden to halt fracked gas exports ASAP.




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Who’s the Green City Really For?

The high-end aesthetic of many new green spaces like New York City’s High Line and Little Island, at right, is partly driven by private investors, who have a strong incentive to attract well-to-do visitors to the areas they help develop.

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Learn what NYC’s Little Island development says about parks and inequality.




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Get the Lead Out

Lead in drinking water is a problem in every state, affecting 9.2 million homes in all parts of the US. We need to replace our water systems by replacing every single lead pipe in the country to ensure clean drinking water for all Americans一a key provision in part of President Biden's American Jobs Plan. If we hope to get the lead out of our water, Congress must act.

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Tell your members of Congress to support the American Jobs Plan.




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Redlining and Racism in Urban Planning

The goal of urban planning should be to maximize the health, safety, and economic well-being of all people living in urban communities. But the practice of “redlining”—denying loans or insurance in neighborhoods of color—has been used to perpetuate segregation and urban blight. Protecting the urban environment and safeguarding the health of urban communities is every bit as important as protecting our national parks and wilderness areas.

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We can’t tackle the climate crisis without taking a hard look at how inequities in our cities lead to environmental degradation.




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Rebecca August taking photos in Los Padres National Forest in the Sespe Wilderness with her dog, Jojo. | Photo courtesy Bryant Baker.
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What Rebecca Saw

“When I stepped into a wilderness area for the first time, it felt almost primordial,” says Rebecca August, a volunteer leader with the Sierra Club’s Los Padres Chapter. “I imagined that the clear streams and meadows and towering trees that I saw were much the same as what the earliest inhabitants had seen. [But] a few days later, when I walked out of that dark, mossy forest brimming with life, what I saw forever changed me.”

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Find out what changed August’s life so dramatically.




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Rewilding the Mexican Wolf

A couple of days after Alpha Female 1346 was born in captivity in 2014, biologists snuck the Mexican wolf pup and her brother into the den of a wild wolf pack in New Mexico’s Gila National Forest, nestled them among the family’s own trio of newborns, and tiptoed away, having no idea if the mother wolf would accept the newcomers. The experiment proved to be a turning point in the decades-long effort to restore Mexican wolves—the rarest type of gray wolf—to their native territory.

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Get a peek inside the re-wolfing of the Gila Forest.




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An orchard worker in Yakima, Washington, in 2020. | Photo by Elaine Thompson | AP
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Climate Change Amplifies Injustice for Farmworkers

Ana Ramirez’s father is a farmworker in Washington State; her mother works in a warehouse packing fruit. “My parents are expected to work through all conditions: rain, snow, fires,” Ramirez says. “They worked all through the pandemic, and unemployment isn’t an option—they don’t qualify for government help because of their immigration status.” When temperatures hit 1170F earlier this month, Ramirez asked her mom if her dad still had to go to work in the fields that day.

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“I should have known better than to think farmworkers would be able to avoid working in a record heat wave.”




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Billionaires Don’t Need to Go to Space

This month, billionaires Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos blasted off into space aboard rocket ships of their own design, effectively marking the launch of commercial space travel and the “dawn of a new space age,” as Branson called it. As climate change accelerates here on Earth, the world’s wealthiest men are seeking diversions and entertainment as far from Earth as they can get, beyond the carbon-laden atmosphere.

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Learn why we should rethink the billionaire space race.




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Say Hello to the Arctic Kelp Rush

At a time when kelp has become more and more critical—as habitat, as a food source, as biofuel, and for its ability to sequester large amounts of carbon—the discovery of lush kelp forests in the Arctic has set off something of a scientific kelp rush.

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Has Big Kelp’s moment arrived?




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R U Ready 4 100?

Clean energy is taking the world by storm, and it’s time for every person in every community to take part in it—starting right where you live. That’s why we've launched the Ready For 100 Activist Toolkit, a blueprint for launching and winning local clean energy campaigns.

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Embracing New Experiences Through Nature

There's no shortage of cliches about travel and its ability to challenge us, broaden our worldviews, or enrich our lives. Eye-roll-inducing as they may be, there's a good reason for these hackneyed superlatives: They're often true, as 21-year-old David Taylor of Detroit can attest.

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