This article was published on the Sierra Club’s national website on March 8, 2019 and can be found here.
Millions of city dwellers rely on urban green spaces for connection with nature, a temporary escape from the cement and steel that dominates their environment. But the ability to do so isn’t a given; urban green spaces are often concentrated in areas of greater wealth, contributing to a sense of nature being inaccessible.
Detroit Outdoors is working to change that in the Motor City.
This article was published on the Sierra Club’s national website on February 26, 2019 and can be found here.
UPDATE – March 14, 2019: Today, the US Forest Service issued their final Environmental Assessment on Nevada’s Ruby Mountains– denying the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) request to offer parcels for leasing in the landscape. The decision comes after after an outpour of public opposition and restricts BLM from offering the sale of parcels in the Ruby Mountains for oil and gas development.
“This win is a direct result of the advocacy by the Te-Moak Tribe of the Western Shoshone, particularly the South Fork and Elko Bands, who worked tirelessly to defend their ancestral homelands,” said Christian Gerlach of the Sierra Club Our Wild America campaign.
Read more in the press release.
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Minnesotans are used to cold winters, of course, but in late January they experienced a polar vortex that sent temperatures plummeting to around 25 degrees below zero, not including wind chill. Yet despite continued extreme cold, snow, and icy conditions, over 200 activists descended on St. Paul in early February to launch the 100% Campaign for clean and equitable energy.
This article was published on the Sierra Club’s national website on February 21, 2019 and can be found here.
What were you doing in 1969? That’s when Becky Evans joined the Sierra Club and began volunteering. If arithmetic isn’t your thing, let us help you out; that’s 50 years and counting.
Evans’s volunteerism also extends to multiple positions associated with City of San Francisco official entities. “Find a need and fill it,” she advises—and has she ever!
Paula on Point 