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The Sierra Club is an American environmental organization with chapters in all 50 U.S. states, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico. The club was founded in 1892, in San Francisco, by preservationist John Muir. A product of the progressive movement, it was one of the first large-scale environmental preservation organizations in the world.
It’s a goal shared by Maki, chair of the Sierra Club California executive committee. Maki said Chavarria’s background in volunteer leadership and organizing gives her a leg up in this department.
During his first year in office, he toured the country giving more than 200 speeches. By the end of his second term, the average age of a Sierra Club member had dropped from 47 to 37. [6] In 1997, while president of the Sierra Club, Werbach worked with David Brower to begin a campaign to drain Lake Powell. Lake Powell is an artificial lake ...
Sierra Club, which formed in 1892 to help protect the Sierra Nevada. [ 38 ] Stop the War Coalition , an organization against the War on Terrorism , which organized a march of between 750,000 and 2,000,000 people in London in 2003.
Unionized workers at the Sierra Club, a leading environmental organization, have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a potential strike amid layoffs and allegations of financial mismanagement.
The Beyond Coal movement is a campaign by environmental group the Sierra Club to promote renewable energy instead of coal. [1] Their primary objective is to close coal power plants in the United States, including at least one-third of the country's more than 500 coal plants by 2020, and to replace them with renewable energy sources.
The executive director of the Sierra Club, Michael Brune, today denounced the organization's founder, John Muir, as a racist who disparaged Black and Indigenous people during his quest to preserve ...
Sierra Club secretary William Colby initiated the High Trips, which usually traveled to the High Sierra, and led them from 1901 to 1929. Colby wrote, "It was from John Muir, President of the Club, that I received the warmest encouragement. He was highly enthusiastic, and told me that he had long been trying to get the Club to undertake just ...