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Steeped in Nature

Cod Submarine, Lake Erie, OH — Lowe on the Cod submarine, Lake Erie, Ohio. All images courtesy of Julie Lowe.

This article was published on the Sierra Club’s national website on February 12, 2019 and can be found here.

Julie Lowe’s life lessons in environmental stewardship began early.

Some of her fondest early memories are of accompanying her maternal grandfather, Ray, on his rounds at Spring Mill State Park in Mitchell, Indiana, where he was the property manager. “It was when I was about four through seven years old, and I remember riding around with him in his green Department of Natural Resources truck,” she says. “I felt I was like him; it was my park and I was taking care of it. He was my idol.” Together they also explored trails and caves, and foraged for morels and persimmons.

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The Ruby Mountains — A Gem Worth Fighting For

rubies lead photo — Photo by Brian Beffort/Sierra Club

This article was published on the Sierra Club’s national website on February 4, 2019 and can be found here.

It’s difficult to choose which anti-environment policy of the Trump administration will go down in history as the most damaging. Well, OK—it’s climate change denial. But one vote for second place is the under-the-radar haste with which it’s attempting to sell off fossil fuel leases on public lands. Our public lands.

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San Antonio Celebrates “Dirty Deely” Shutdown

J.T. Deely coal-fired power plant, far left – photo courtesy of the Sierra Club

This article was published on the Sierra Club’s national website on January 25, 2019 and can be found here.

New Year’s Eve came a bit early to San Antonio, where environmentalists broke out the bubbly a few hours early to celebrate the retirement of CPS Energy’s J.T. Deely coal-fired power plant. Dubbed “Dirty Deely” by renewable energy proponents, the plant—which dates to 1977—closed fifteen years ahead of schedule.

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