Conservation Campaigns
It is important for a conservation organization like the Sierra Club to focus on specific issues. By having national, state and local entities working in conjunction, we can best attack local and regional issues with our grassroots activism. You can energize our efforts! If you would like to be involved with any campaign - fill out our short Volunteer Survey and we'll put you in touch with the right person!
Regional Transit
Regional transit often plays a key role in helping communities grow sustainably and become vital centers of employment and commerce, but can be a source of consternation and confusion. Transit options play a large part in providing many people options to get where they want to go, and doing so affordably. Since transportation is the second largest source of greenhouse gases, it is also of strong concern to the Sierra Club in combatting climate change.
Following passage of the Regional Transit Authority for Dane County, the Four Lakes Group is undertaking a major educational campaign on the importance of regional transit that is not hindered by municipal boundaries, but serves people's needs. We currently conduct neighborhood and community listening sessions called Sierrans on the Move. We're looking for volunteers to assist in this critical campaign to educate people about transit issues and options. For more information, fill out our short Volunteer Survey and we'll put you in touch with the right person!
No More Coal!
We've made great progress getting coal removed in state owned power plants, including Charter St in Madison, but there are still 5 other power plants the state owned that run on coal. That number should be zero! And our local utilities should hear that we don't want them using coal power either and that green power should be cheap and affordable to customers. Help us get off coal and onto clean energy! For more information, fill out our short Volunteer Survey and we'll put you in touch with the right person!
Recycling Away from Home (RAH)
We have too much waste - or materials we treat as such and that ends up in landfills. Currently, volunteers collect recyclables and trash separately at three east side summer neighborhood festivals (Waterfront Fest, Orton Park , and the Willy St Fair) for the City to collect. With your help, we can continue these efforts and expand to more festivals and find ways reduce the current amount of material that is currently being treated as waste and goes to the landfill.
We are looking for volunteers to help coordinate our efforts, collect bags at these events, explore means of reducing waste, expand this to more events, and perhaps take on other avenues of recycling that currently are not being done here. So many opportunities! For more information, fill out our short Volunteer Survey and visit www.madisonrah.org.
Green Homes and Neighborhoods
Where we live and what we do there affects so much of our energy use and how we treat the planet. You can help find and organize like minded people through the Sierra Club on aspects of green living of concern to you. Not all these efforts are underway here, but we'll be glad to help you find other like minded individuals to work on an area of concern to you. For more information, fill out our short Volunteer Survey and we'll put you in touch with the right person!
Cool Cities
Did you know that Madison and Fitchburg are Cool Cities and Dane County is a Cool County? If
you're interested in larger aspects of keeping your community cool, then this is a great opportunity to
get involved and influence policy and actions at the community level. For more information, fill out our short Volunteer Survey and we'll put you in touch with the right person!
Mpowering Madison
Mpowering Madison is an effort by the City to get citizens and businesses to take the Cool Cities pledge and reduce their greenhouse gases. Working with other Sierrans, you can help get others signed up to reduce their carbon footprint through Sierra, neighborhood teams, or other means. For more information, contact Seth Nowak at coop_seth@yahoo.com.
Sierra Green Homes
If you're concerned not only about the energy use of your home, but exposure to chemicals and
toxins, the Sierra Club's Green Home program may be just
the thing for you. This is an opportunity to join with other Sierrans and help create a safe and healthy
home environment. For more information, fill out our short Volunteer Survey and we'll put you in touch with the right person!
Sprawl
Sprawl costs us all. And yet we continue to do it - and then we and the environment pay for it. How can we be green when sprawling development causes more automobile use and gas consumed, more impervious roads and parking to be built, and takes up valuable farm land. Get involved with land use and what we allow to be built where. For more information, fill out our short Volunteer Survey and we'll put you in touch with the right person!
Healthy Lawns Team
If you're concerned about what's going on outside your house, then the Healthy Lawns Team may
just be the place for you. With all the lawn services that purport to keep your lawn healthy, are they
keeping you, your kids and your pets healthy as well? Contact Claire Gervais at
cmgerva@gmail.com or go to www.healthylawnteam.org to learn more about getting
involved with this effort.
Clean Water
Interested in water quality (or quantity) issues? Help organize Sierrans on this area of focus. For more information, fill out our short Volunteer Survey and we'll put you in touch with the right person!
Rain Gardens/Rain Barrels
Another water management issue is with excess runoff. If you'd like to learn more about how you can control runoff and help others do so, then we can use your leadership in this area. For more information, fill out our short Volunteer Survey and we'll put you in touch with the right person!
Local Food
If you're concerned about where your food comes from, how it's grown and how this relates to
sustainable living, we'll try to hook you up with Sierrans with similar concerns. For more information, fill out our short Volunteer Survey and we'll put you in touch with the right person!
Wisconsin State Conservation Issues
For a great up-to-date list of various hot issues, we encourage you to visit the Wisconsin John Muir Chapter Sierra Club's Action page.
The John Muir Chapter, which encompasses nine groups and serves the entire state of Wisconsin, works on a wide variety of issues ranging from logging to air pollution to groundwater protection. For current information on statewide issues, see our web site at wisconsin.sierraclub.org.
To learn the John Muir Chapter's position on current legislation that affects YOU, right here in Wisconsin, visit our Legislative Tracker. Then remember to Take Action by contacting your elected officials today!
National Sierra Club Conservation Issues
Each year the Sierra Club leadership selects specific issues on which to focus our efforts. For details on any of these campaigns, please see the national web site www.sierraclub.org
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