Board of Directors Election 2022
The 2022 election for the Sierra Club’s Board of Directors election concluded on April 27. Based on a vote count carried out by Election Services Co.
These Black Women Environmentalists Are Changing The World
BLACK ENVIRONMENTALISTS HAVE MADE SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO HELP PREVENT FURTHER ESCALATION OF THE CLIMATE CRISIS.
The Path Forward for the Administration’s Environmental Justice
The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) invites you to watch a briefing about the Justice40 Initiative and how it can deliver benefits to frontline communities.
Climate Change’s Equity Challenge: Creating a Movement for All of Us
Climate change affects us all, but historically marginalized populations are worst impacted. In addition, environmental organizations that work on climate change lack racial diversity and therefore the skills to address equity challenges.
Nine Questions with Tamara Toles O’Laughlin.
When Tamara Toles O’Laughlin left 350.org after two years as its director for North America, the press release announcing her departure included enthusiastic quotes not only from the head of the organization, but also from the leaders of the Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth.
Conversation with Emira Woods
On Wednesday, March 23, the Green Leadership Trust (GLT) joined co-hosts the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The New York Community Trust, Wallace Global Fund, and the Environmental Grantmakers Association for an informal conversation with GLT’s new Executive Director
Meet Green Leadership Trust’s New Executive Director, Emira Woods!
Please join co-hosts the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The New York Community Trust, Wallace Global Fund, and the Environmental Grantmakers Association to have a conversation with the new Executive Director of the Green Leadership Trust (GLT).
$12 Billion Investment in Puerto Rico’s
In September 2020, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) allocated $9.6 billion for electric system work in Puerto Rico. Subsequently, more federal funds have been committed, bringing the total to approximately $12 billion.
Women of color are leading climate justice work.
With huge race and gender gaps in funding for environmental work, a group of grant-makers are trying to change the status quo by directing philanthropy toward community-led climate solutions.
6 Black climate change leaders you need to know
Many of those with the largest megaphones about the importance of mitigating climate change are white: Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Joe Biden, John Kerry, Greta Thunberg, Al Gore, and more recently, Jeff Bezos, to name few.
But the effects of climate change often hit people of color the hardest.
Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
The Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report assesses the impacts of climate change, looking at ecosystems, biodiversity, and human communities at global and regional levels.
At the Sierra Club, a Focus on Race, Gender and the Environment, Too
As protests after the killing of George Floyd convulsed the nation in the summer of 2020, the executive director of the Sierra Club wrote an explosive blog post about John Muir, the storied conservationist who founded the environmental organization.
The Devastating Costs of Puerto Rico’s Solar “Farms”
The devastation wrought by the 2017 hurricane season showed that the Puerto Rico archipelago is already experiencing some of the gravest impacts of the climate crisis. And yet, it appears that powerful economic interests and lack of planning continue to take precedence over mitigating the archipelago’s worsening and intensifying climate-related emergencies.
On Capitol Hill, Bird Walks Help Politicians Find Common Ground
On this crisp October morning, James explicitly avoids talking politics: “I do no kind of lobbying on these walks.”
Climate Feminism: Where Compassion and Justice Meet
Senator Joe Manchin made his name as a climate justice villain. It’s the campaign message he ran on in 2010,