Just Say No to Liquified Natural Gas Exports
As if the natural gas industry hasn’t done enough damage, now it's looking for new ways to further profits while sacrificing our clean air and water. Its new trick is exporting
liquefied natural gas (LNG). This would mean more destructive
fracking , more pipelines, and more carbon pollution.
The Sierra Club is
challenging a proposed LNG export facility in Maryland on the grounds that LNG exports would raise gas and electricity prices nationally and expand fracking.
We need to
tell President Obama that exporting dirty LNG is dangerous, environmentally destructive, and unacceptable.
Sign our petition urging the president to put the brakes on LNG exports.
Coal Victories Pile Up -- Now Let's Create Green Jobs
In late January, a Georgia utility
canceled funding for two proposed coal-fired power plants . Two days later, FirstEnergy Corp. announced that it will
retire six of its dirtiest coal plants in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Maryland by September. Then on February 5, the company said it will be
shutting three more coal plants in West Virginia "All this news means cleaner air for thousands of Americans, and it's the result of years of tireless advocacy by hard working local residents and volunteers," says Mary Anne Hitt, director of the Sierra Club's
Beyond Coal campaign . "But the transition from coal to clean energy needs to happen in a way that
protects workers and communities ."
Solar Synagogue
Los Angeles Sierra Club member Jan Freed had a vision: He wanted his synagogue to go green. Two years ago, he began a campaign to have solar panels installed atop Temple Sinai in Glendale, California.
The temple's new
solar array was dedicated on January"We are all here because of the vision of one man who started us on the path of true environmental sustainability," Rabbi Richard Schechter said at the dedication. Read more in
Scrapbook Photo by Leonard Coutin
The Condensed Appalachian Trail
The Appalachian Trail ran through Kevin Gallagher's childhood backyard in Virginia, and he and his family regularly hiked sections of the trail near their Shenandoah Valley home. Those hikes inspired him to complete the entire 2,181-mile trail from Georgia to Maine.
On his
six-month trek , Gallagher tookphotos ofsteps along the trail each day, and he returned home with more than 4,000 slides. He has just released
a video that strings together the scanned slides and takes viewers on a journey down the entire trail in less than five minutes. Read more about
Gallagher's journey and watch his video
Green Tunnel Photo by Kevin Gallagher
Tomorrowland 
During the 1964 World's Fair, General Motors' Futurama ride predicted a metropolis replete with fossil fuel–powered modes of transportation that would take humans to space, to the Arctic, and into the deep oceans. With fossil fuels, new technology, and unbridled human spirit, the city of the future would know no bounds.
Thankfully, our notion of what a city can be has changed a bit since 1964. But the question remains: In 2025, whenpercent of Europeans, North Americans, and South Americans will be urban dwellers, what will our cities actually look like? Will they be sustainable?
Sierra magazine considers the possibilities Image: Vincent Callebaut Architectures
When You Speak, Your Voice Is Heard
Last week more than 800,000 Americans called, emailed, wrote letters, and even sent videos to tell the Senate to
let the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline die . The Sierra Club worked with many partners to generate what some have called the biggest day of environmental action since the first Earth Day in 1970.
A few days earlier, 86,000 Sierra Club members delivered the same message to the U.S. House. We know what an impact that has. But it's nice to get some outside perspective on the effectiveness of our grassroots mobilization against Keystone.
So we were thrilled to see
Forbes magazine crthe Club, our large coalition, and YOU who have taken action with showing how a "well-integrated grassroots initiative driven by superior digital strategies can trump the conventional inside-the-Beltway politicking of even so formidable a presence as the oil industry."
National School Lights Out Day
New Jersey high school student Victoria Pan wants to turn the lights out at her school. And she wants other schools to go dark too.
Winner of the Sierra Club's Joseph Barbosa Earth Fund Award in 2011, Pan created an organization called
Students Saving Energy . She is following that up with "
National School Lights Out Day " -- inspired by
Earth Hour 2012 -- encouraging schools to turn off classroom lights on Marchto teach students about electricity creation and consumption. If you're a high school student or know one,
along Photo by Natalie Brasington
Sierra Club Getting Vets and Their Families Outdoors 
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