by Mallory Carter On Saturday, November 19th, the Sierra Club hosted a booth at Do It Green Minnesota’s 6th annual Green Gifts Fair at the Midtown Global Market in Minneapolis to raise awareness of the impact of mercury pollution and build support…
Michael Brune is the Sierra Club’s executive director. Follow me on Twitter and Facebook. Almost exactly two years ago, I was in the running to succeed Carl Pope as the Sierra Club’s executive director but had not yet been offered the job. At one …
Guest post by Ann Mesnikoff, Director of the Sierra Club Green Transportation Campaign Today, the Obama administration took a step that will result in significant savings at the pump for American families, reduce life-threatening carbon pollution,…
Guest post by Lisa Gumingo, Minnesota Fair Trade Coalition After polluting the local water and soil with heavy metals and arsenic and having their mining permits revoked by the Salvadoran government, Commerce Group, a small multi-national corporat…
by Karen Monahan Get Your Green, after a great performance! Everyday, we are affected by our environment in one way or another. There are some who are disproportionately affected by our environment. We Call this Environmental Injustice. Environmen…
by Karen Monahan Everyday, we are affected by our environment in one way or another. There are some who are disproportionately affected by our environment. We Call this Environmental Injustice. Environmental racism and classism is the disproportio…
Transit to Green Space outings are a series launched by the Land Use and Transportation committee of the Sierra Club North Star Chapter in an ongoing exploration of ways to reach our parks and natural areas without cars. &a…
Guest post by Stacy Bare, Sierra Club’s Military Families and Veterans Representative Veterans Day. I’m not going to lie, today is one of the more difficult days in my year and I’ve historically not been a very big fan of the day. I appreciate how…
by Joshua Low National League of Women Voters President Elisabeth MacNamara visited Rochester and White Bear Lake last week to fight for clean air through public education forums, visits to newspaper editorial boards and columnists, and meetings w…
Join us on the #441 bus as we head for a late fall (early winter?) hike or ski in Lebanon Hills Park in the south metro. We’ll access the western portion of the park from the Minnesota Zoo where we’ll join the “regular” outing group. We’ll meet at…
