Choose. Bike. Be Happy.We love bikes, and reckon the world can always use a few more of them. So we're teaming up with Public Bikes to
give away three brand-new, colorful, perfectly practical, and stylish bicycles that will make it a pleasure to leave your car at home -- whether it's for a quick spin to the market or a daily fresh-air commute
like this one.
What a great way to
be happy, get healthy, and help the planet!
Support Beyond Coal from the Bottom(s) UpThe Sierra Club teamed up with PACT and designer Yves Behar to create beautiful organic and sustainable underwear inspired by our Beyond Coal Campaign. Now you have a chance to get these special skivvies at a 40% discount.
Buy during
PACT's special three-day flash sale and 100% of proceeds will go to support the Sierra Club's campaign to move our country Beyond Coal.
Coal on the CarpetSpeaking of coal, unless you've got a coal-fired boiler in your basement, you might have trouble picturing how much of the stuff it takes to power an average American household.
So we did the calculations and then piled up the coal -- in the living room, the bath, and behind the sofa.
See for yourself how "dirty energy" lives up to its name.
Photo: Lauren Burke
A Victory Leap for Wild Salmon Earlier this month, U.S. District Court Judge James Redden again ruled against the federal government's management plan for salmon and steelhead in the Columbia and Snake rivers, saying it failed to provide salmon and steelhead with a real shot at survival, much less recovery.
Salmon-recovery plans from three different presidential administrations over the past ten years have failed to protect the species. Redden's ruling marks a huge win for wild salmon and the communities and ecosystems that depend on them. Please tell the Obama administration that we want (and salmon-dependent communities need) a
new salmon-recovery plan that protects wild salmon.
The Last of Their KindLoggerhead turtles, yellowfin madtoms, California tiger salamanders, and Mexican gray wolves have little in common beyond the struggle for their species to survive.
Joel Sartore photographed these and other creatures that are among the last of their kind. His stark, intimate images are featured in this
exclusive Sierra magazine slideshow.
Photo: Joel Sartore
One Big Cat's Incredible Journey Experts have confirmed that a male mountain lion struck by an SUV in Connecticut
had begun its journey 1,500 miles away, in the black hills of South Dakota.
Despite the cat's sad end, its record-breaking trek is part of an encouraging trend. Thanks to reforestation and to conservation measures like the Endangered Species Act, animals like moose, fishers, and black bears are showing up in places where they haven't been seen for a century.
But for endangered species to expand or change their ranges, they need both contiguous habitat and a way to safely get past highways and other dangerous obstacles. Perhaps most of all, they need habitat protection like that which
the Sierra Club is attempting to secure for the Florida panther.
Keep on Truckin' -- with Less Gas Last week, President Obama announced the
first-ever fuel-efficiency and carbon-pollution standards for medium- and heavy-duty trucks. That's significant because, although they represent only 4 percent of the vehicles on the road, they consume 20 percent of the fuel.
"By setting these standards," said Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune, "we can clean up and improve the performance of the delivery trucks, city buses, and freight trucks that Americans rely on each day -- while also clearing the air we all breathe, saving truckers and businesses money, and bringing our nation a step closer to moving beyond oil."
Surveying the Past, Plotting the FutureThe Best Internship on Earth continues as Kokei Otosi joins an archeological dig on an Outings service trip and brainstorms ideas for breaking down barriers to connecting with nature at an Outdoor Nation Youth Summit.
Watch her latest two adventures.
