Most of us, especially those of us in our comfortable homes in Chicago’s Quiet North Shore Suburbs, feel quite safe and secure. We can’t imagine an enormous explosion that could destroy our homes, lives and communities like what happened in the small Quebec town of Lac-Mégantic as described below in Mike Brune’s Blog. Think again. Many receiving this may remember…
Elections matter. It amazes and disappoints me that the Supreme Court could find that the EPA failed to take into consideration the costs that industry, principally the coal industry, would endure in order to cause: “the lifelong neurological damage brought on by exposure to toxic mercury, and prevent up to 11,000 premature deaths, 4,700 heart attacks and 130,000 asthma attacks…
Great blog today from Sierra Club President Aaron Mair. It has irritated the hell out of me for decades that the coal industry has insisted that if they are forced to clean up their emissions our lives will suffer. They claim it will cost everyone more money and jobs will vanish. And, of course, they deny that climate change is…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, April 8, 2015 Contacts: Bloomberg Philanthropies, Meghan Womack, meghan@bloomberg.org, 212-205-0176 Sierra Club, Maggie Kao, maggie.kao@sierraclub.org, 202-675-2384 Bloomberg Philanthropies Boosts Investment in Sierra Club to Retire U.S. Coal Fleet & Transition the Nation Towards Clean Energy Sources Efforts aim to improve public health, slash carbon emissions and allow U.S. to take action as leader in fighting climate…
Coming Clean: The blog of Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune April 3, 2015 AddUp: Technology + Activism “Technology is nothing.” So said the man behind some of the most successful and influential technologies of the past three decades. But then Apple founder Steve Jobs elaborated: “What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good…
Sierra Club Board of Directors Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico February 26 – 28, 2015 Chuck Frank making a point at the working session. Board Secretary Lane Boldman and Sierra Club Chief of Staff Jesse Simons in background. Photo by Dean Wallraff Introduction: It is an exciting time to be on the Sierra Club Board of Directors. We are working…
A big concern about solar and wind power’s ability to take over electricity production is the intermittent nature of the source. To ensure that there is power when and where we need it it is necessary to be able to have adequate storage of this type of power. The following article is very informative about the current status of our…
At our last Sierra Club Board Meeting in November we voted unequivocally to oppose hydraulic fracturing commonly known as fracking. I enthusiastically support this position and policy. My personal opinion is that we are not going to realistically be able to stop all fracking in the U.S. tomorrow. But the sooner the better. Before we destroy our water tables, poison…
It has been a while since I wrote about automotive news and how we are going to move Beyond Oil (the name of the Sierra Club Campaign to get the U.S. off of oil by 2050). In fact, the Sierra Club Board of Directors, of which I am one, voted last week at our November Board meeting, to officially adopt…
I have been debating in my mind as to whether to write about the new US-China climate deal that President Obama announced last week. After all, it’s been all over the main stream media and you’ve probably read enough about it such that you don’t need another article about it from me. But then I read the following piece that…