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Happy Belated Earth Day

Happy Belated Earth Day

Belated Earth Day to you all.     Mike’s message below describes why so many of us at the Sierra Club, and in so many other organizations, are fighting so hard to combat climate change and why, despite all the reasons to be discouraged, instead, we are optimists.     The task is achievable and the benefits are enormous in…

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John Muir’s 176th Birthday Today

John Muir’s 176th Birthday Today

While I am by  no means a John Muir scholar, my friend and former Sierra Club President (who signed my Life Member certificate in 1989 in that capacity) and fellow Sierra Club Foundation Board member Richard Cellarius does know a great deal about the founder of Sierra Club who also appears on the California Quarter.  And it is fitting that…

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1964: Oil and Smoking

1964: Oil and Smoking

Imagine it is 1964 and the CEO/Chairman of Phillip Morris at a company Annual Meeting makes a statement to the affect that “We now believe that smoking is the worst thing you could ever do for your health, causes cancer and other terrible health problems and has a good chance of killing you.  Furthermore, we are going to label all…

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