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| Green Your Ride for National Bike Month May is National Bike Month, and we’ve pulled together a grab bag of tips, tricks, and advice to help enhance your cycling lifestyle. Looking to buy a new bicycle? Read about out how to save money and support your local bike gurus while eliminating the energy and resources needed to manufacture a new bicycle. Get tips on biking in cold or wet weather, how to make your ride to work safer, coexisting with hikers in wilderness areas, bicycling in a skirt, and more. It’s all in our National Bike Month roundup. |
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| Remembering Thomas Pearce “A fearless, quiet giant of a presence.” “A gentle, thoughtful, graceful human being, and a fierce warrior when it came to justice.” These are emblematic of the way friends and colleagues remember Thomas Pearce, a longtime Sierra Club organizer and indigenous-rights activist who died last week at the age of 58 in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. Read more about this friend of the earth. |
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| Bold Backpack Journeys Go where few have gone before on one of our many backpack adventures. All it takes is an adventurous spirit to discover worlds left virtually untouched by civilization. Not sure where to start? Learn the basics on a beginner trip with our experienced leaders. See all trips and sign up. |
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| Outdoors for All The concept of nature as a human right might sound radical, but a global movement of parents, educators, researchers, and health practitioners has begun to insist that universal and equitable access to nature is fundamental to our humanity as well as to the future of life on Earth. The case for nature as a human right. |
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| Politics Trumps Science at the EPA Once again, the Trump administration is pushing to lower air-quality standards. Tony Cox, who chairs the EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee and is a former consultant for oil, chemical, and tobacco interests, is questioning whether breathing soot is really unhealthy. Well, let’s see... soot is known to cause respiratory ailments and increase the risk of stroke, cancer, and heart attack -- not to mention trifles like asthma, bronchitis, and shortness of breath. Could it be that Cox is more concerned with industry’s bottom line than with the public’s health? Tell the EPA to protect public health, not polluter profits. |
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Damage from 2018's hurricane michael in Callaway, Florida. Waffle houses have a reputation for remaining open whenever possible, so FEMA unofficially tracks the severity of natural disasters by the number of branches still slinging waffles. | Photo by Julie Dermansky |
| Climate Change Biting Big Business’s Bottom Line What will it take for American corporations to get serious about fighting climate change? If they do nothing, the downside is enormous. In North America, extreme weather events and natural disasters caused $91 billion in damages in 2018 alone. Find out how climate chaos already threatens corporate America's bottom line. |
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| Clean Energy Just Beat Coal "The victories just keep on coming," says Mary Anne Hitt, director of the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign. "In April, for the first time in history, the United States is on track to produce more power from renewable energy than coal. CNN called it 'a tipping point.' Over that same month, grassroots leaders won a jaw-dropping number of new victories that make one thing clear. "We're just getting started." |
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Sea turtle | Photo by iStockphoto.com/Velvetfish |
| Endangered Species Day Is May 18 Join Team Sierra and help protect an endangered critter when you raise money and awareness on behalf of a threatened or endangered species. Set up a fundraising page and tell friends and family you’re raising money to support the Sierra Club’s mission of protecting our wildlife and its habitat. You’ll reach fundraising milestones along the way, including an opportunity to symbolically adopt your own wild animal when you raise $39 or more. Create your page today—your fellow Earth-dwellers thank you. |
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