Category Archives: 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.

BLACK ENVIRONMENTALISTS HAVE MADE SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO HELP PREVENT FURTHER ESCALATION OF THE CLIMATE CRISIS.

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 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.

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.

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

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).

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.

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.

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.