The Best Viral Enviro Videos EverWith hundreds of millions of videos on YouTube, picking the
very best ones in honor of Earth Day was a daunting task, but Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune was up to the challenge. His picks ranged from inspiring to infuriating to funny to infuriatingly funny.
Breathtaking
aurora borealis? Check. Aussie bird that
sounds like a chain saw? Check.
Cute baby animals and
underdressed coal-fightin' college kids? Check -- and check it out!
10,000 Young People for Clean EnergyAn estimated
10,000 young activists from around the country, including members of the Sierra Student Coalition (SSC), converged on Washington, D.C., last week for the third biannual
Power Shift, a three-day clean-energy and climate summit.
Some activists, including SSC's Kim Teplitzky, got a chance to lobby President Obama on clean energy firsthand when he
made a surprise appearance at their meeting with administration officials.
Down to the Final 10
Tough as it was, we've
narrowed it to ten finalists for The Best Internship on Earth -- based on their inspired, passionate, and creative video applications.
Check out the hopefuls and let us know who you think should be our next Outdoor Youth Ambassador.
iMatter Marches for Mother's DayThink the college students at Power Shift are young? Alec Loorz, age 16, started Kids vs Global Warming four years ago after seeing
An Inconvenient Truth. Now he's heading up the
iMatter March (scheduled for Mothers Day), to "let the world know that climate change is a moral issue." Thousands of young people will lead events from New York to China, Alaska to London.
Learn more about iMatter (the Sierra Club is a partner) and how you -- or a young person you know -- can get involved.
Sierra Club in the News Last week, on the one-year anniversary of the BP oil disaster,
Sierra Club President Robin Mann spoke at a sunrise memorial to remember the eleven men who died in the tragedy and to call for national support for recovery efforts in Louisiana and the Gulf... On Earth Day, Executive Director Michael Brune had an
op-ed in The Hill and helped
dedicate a new solar-panel plant in California with his daughter...
Time magazine's Bryan Walsh wrote about the Club's mercury-testing program and revealed that his own levels were "
double the safety limit."
Every Week: One Small ThingHave you made an
Eco Hero pledge yet for our 2011 Earth Day sweepstakes? There's still time to do so and be
entered to win a trip to the Caribbean. But don't stop there. In the spirit of tiny things that add up, every week we'll post "One Small Thing" that you can easily do to cut down your carbon. If enough of us pitch in, all those small things will turn into a big deal.
Check Compass each Friday for a new small thing, or
"like" the Sierra Club on Facebook and watch for it there.
We Can Do Better for Our ForestsThe Obama administration is updating the guidelines for managing our national forests, but their draft is missing key environmental components.
We need to strengthen the rules that affect climate-disruption management, including tougher standards for conserving and managing fish and wildlife in a rapidly and sometimes dramatically changing environment.
Please ask the U.S. Forest Service to better protect our forests from climate disruption.
Sympathy for the DevilsThrough the ages, the
fierce Tasmanian devil has had a tough go of it. First, it disappeared from mainland Australia (probably killed off by dingoes) to live an isolated existence on its namesake island south of the continent. Then Tasmanian sheepherders, seeing a threat to their livelihood, nearly killed off the species.
And now a new threat -- a strange infectious cancer called devil face tumor disease -- may be on the verge of killing off the 2,000 devils that remain in the wild. The good news, as reported in the latest issue of
Sierra, is that a
solution may be at hand.
Spread the Word about Fracking A natural gas company asked filmmaker Josh Fox to lease his land for drilling and the result was
Gasland. This absorbing, Academy-award nominated documentary follows Fox on a cross-country odyssey exposing the dangers of the natural gas extraction method called hydraulic fracturing.
We invite you to hold a house party and help educate your friends and family about the dangers of fracking.
Sign up to host a screening and we'll send you a copy of the DVD as well as a handy guide for planning a successful party. Or, if you're not able to host,
search for a party in your neighborhood.
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