John Muir (1838-1914) was America's most famous and influential naturalist and conservationist, and founder of the Sierra Club . This website, known as the "John Muir Exhibit" features his life and contributions.
In Ecuador's Yasuní National Park, butterflies sip a yellow-spotted river turtle's tears. The mineral-rich liquid helps the insects reproduce. In exchange, the reptile gets a good eye-cleaning. | Photo by Pete Oxford/Minden Pictures
Young cheetah cubs appear almost like chicks before they've opened their eyes. "A cheetah's den is called a 'nest,' and they do literally chirp like birds," Eszterhas says. Cheetahs typically have three to six cubs per litter, but their mortality rate is alarmingly high. Although adul...
The Sierra Club has been connecting people to the outdoors for over 100 years. Getting outdoors is what our volunteer outing leaders love to do, so is sharing the outdoors with others. Click here to learn more about getting outside with the Sierra Club in your state. Enjoy these deepl...
Share: sierraclub.org - sierra magazine - may/june 2012 - last words LAST WORDS At a research center in China's Wolong National Nature Reserve, scientists wear panda costumes to try to reduce human influence on a four-month-old cub before it's released into the wild. Born in captivity...
On November 8th, the Sierra Club launched a new ad campaign in the Capitol South Metro station in D.C., calling on Congress to renew the Production Tax Credit for the wind industry, a critical policy upon which 75,000 jobs rely. The ads, which take over the entire Metro station, will ...
Marianna Hildreth, 7, holds her cousin Mariyah McGhee, 1, who has asthma, in their grandmother's kitchen in River Rouge, Michigan. | Ami Vitale/Panos Pictures Michigan's River Rouge Power Plant. A nonpartisan study by the Clean Air Task Force calculated that particulate pollution from...
When mining companies level West Virginia mountains to get at the coal beneath, towns disappear. When a Michigan power plant burns coal to make electricity, it triggers asthma in children nearby. When coal ash blows onto a Paiute reservation in Nevada, elders die. Sierra traveled to t...
When mining companies level West Virginia mountains to get at the coal beneath, towns disappear. When a Michigan power plant burns coal to make electricity, it triggers asthma in children nearby. When coal ash blows onto a Paiute reservation in Nevada, elders die. Sierra traveled to t...
The inhabitants of this barely charted world may look like the stuff of science fiction, yet our lives are intertwined. Whether or not we're mindful of it, we share this planet with the nudibranch, the sea anemone, and the octopus. The strange and beautiful creatures in this photo gal...
The Sierra Club has chapters across the country. Your chapter offers opportunities for hikes and other outings, activism on local and state issues, and much more. Select a chapter from the list below, and enjoy your visit! Right: Members of the Sierra Club's Puerto Rico Chapter explor...
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UC Davis is over-the-top thorough about all the nitty-gritty aspects of good stewardship. Lots of time and money go toward a well-rounded set of efforts, including being vigilant about using the school's purchasing power for good, diverting around 70 percent of its trash from landfill...
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Coal "lock-in," rather than rational investments in coal power, is one of the largest global threats today. This lock-in results from high capital costs and long asset lifespans associated with coal-fired power plant investments. Over the past six years due to large scale public oppos...
Be Here Now Make the most of your vacation this year on one of 150+ Sierra Club trips. Check them out. Hiking Willmore Wilderness Park in the remote Canadian Rockies. Photo: Ray Rasmussen. 2013 International Trips Step outside yourself on one of our newest international itineraries. C...
My First Summer in the Sierra: 100th Anniversary Illustrated Edition by John Muir & Scot Miller, Book Trailer Winner of the 2011 National Outdoor Book Award - Classic Category John Muir in Sculpture! Help fund the installation of "Mountain Muir" at The John Muir National Historic Site...
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From certain angles the FabLab House is reminiscent of a covered wagon, but its shape is more accurately described as a "distorted paraboloid," which milks the most living space and solar-energy production from a lightweight design. The airy great room has living, dining (a table for ...
sierraclub.org - sierra magazine - march/april 2012 - green design blooms in rust belt city COMFORT ZONE | Smart Designs for Pleasure and Planet Green Design Blooms in a Rust Belt City By Mary Louise Schumacher WHAT I LIKE "I am an outdoor person," Vera Scekic says. "I am even more at...
For more than a century, Washington's Elwha Dam blocked chinook salmon in the Elwha River from completing their spawning run upstream. This photo was taken in early September 2011, shortly before workers began to dismantle the structure. | Steve Ringman/
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Through these outings, ICO promotes interpersonal skills and self-esteem by involving participants in teamwork, teaching them self-reliance outside an urban setting, and encouraging them to take an active role in protecting the environment. As its participants discover the beauty of w...
Love is in the air! Or, is that global warming? Either way, this quiz will help you find ways to spread your love and shrink your carbon footprint at the same time.
Share: sierraclub.org - sierra magazine - march/april 2012 - high-art - high art: keith ladzinski HIGH ART | How climbing photographers get the shots that make us gasp By Jonathan Thesenga Keith Ladzinski 1 of 7 "This photo of Chris Alstrin on Grandma's Glass was taken just before mid...
Press Release – January 10, 2012 New research should nail the coffin lid shut on a toxic bee-killing pesticide Entire food chain found to be contaminated, from soil to pollen to dead bees Contact Laurel Hopwood, 216-371-9779 (EST)Tom Theobald 303-652-2266 (MST) Neil Carman, PhD. 512-2...
Compare that to the waste that comes with the way we eat fish in this country. Tuna fisheries, salmon fisheries, and cod fisheries around the world are in crisis. Giant conglomerates have been funding devastating practices, most notably with shrimp farms in Southeast Asia, where they'...
I don't profess to be a trained water quality researcher, but I wanted to know whether private water wells in California's farm belt are contaminated with pesticides. And since few public records of such tests exist, I decided to do it myself—with the help of a government scientist. I...
