See You At the Crossroads!
The Sierra Club has launched Climate Crossroads, an online community dedicated to fighting global warming and advocating for clean energy! The network will allow you to connect with friends, post events, and keep updated with climate-change news.
Here are two simple things you need to do to get started:
- Register and set up an account for yourself. Give yourself a screen name, put up a profile picture, and fill in your profile.
- Join or create a group, post a picture, and leave a comment. The most popular groups are The Big Picture (a Sierra Club Clean Energy campaign everyone can be a part of) and Walk About, a group for urban walkers. Climate Crossroads is more than just a network for friends. You can add your favorite sustainable recipes to our food section, participate in our forums, and post your own actions.
Get involved today and make a difference!
Resilient Habitats: Adapting to Global Warming
Last week, Representatives Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) introduced legislation that for the first time in history would create a national strategy for protecting wildlife and habitat from the worst impacts of global warming. The Climate Change Safeguards for Natural Resources Conservation Act (HR 2192) requires federal, state and tribal agencies to develop adaptation plans and work with local groups and private landowners to identify and safeguard vulnerable wildlife and habitats.
This bill would create a national strategy for helping wildlife survive global warming and make polluters pay to repair the damage they've done to our wildlife and natural heritage.
Learn more about the Sierra Club’s Resilient Habitats work.
New Website - The Sierra Club En Espaņol
The Sierra Club works with Latino organizations around the country to provide tools and information about how we can work together toward safer and healthy communities and this week we unveiled the newly redesigned Sierra Club Spanish-language website: www.sierraclub.org/ecocentro
"We hope that the revamped Ecocentro website will continue our dialogue with the Spanish-speaking community about environmental and health issues around the country and will create an exchange of ideas on how to improve the quality of life for all of us," said Isabel M. Long, Associate Representative with the Environmental Justice and Community Partnerships Program.