| welcome
|
| |
|
|
| |
 The
Austin Regional
Group of the Sierra Club meets on the second Tuesday each
month to discuss and examine issues that affect Austin, Texas
and the nation. Beginning on September 14, the general meeting
will be held at Scholz's Beer Garden, 1607 San Jacinto. Join
us at 6 pm for socializing and happy hour; the program starts
at 7 pm. General Meeting
details... |
|
| be
inspired ... |
| |
|
|
| |
After
several months of work, our brand new Austin Sierra
Club Photo Gallery is up and ready for prime time.
Thanks to Melody Lytle, ExCom member and fabulous web designer,
we are ready to take you on a trip with us. Check it out here:
GALLERY or by clicking on the "outings
photos" link on the blue navigation bar on the
right of this page. HAPPY TRAILS.
[let
us know what you think. Send comments to Chuck Byrd, Webmaster
] |
|
| |
|
|
| environmental
directory .... |
| |
|
|
| |
 Since
1995, Paul Robbins, local environmental writer and editor,
has produced The Austin Environmental Directory,
a valuable tool for anyone interested in Austin Environmental
Issues. Here is how Robbins describes the Directory: The
Austin Environmental Directory is meant as a userfriendly
guide to readers for learning about environmental issues,
for identifying and purchasing environmental products, and
for becoming involved in environmental organizations.
The print version is distributed free to the Austin
area. The 2010 Directory is also listed on the Internet at
Austin
Environmental Directory .
The Austin Sierra Club has, for several years, contributed
to Paul's Directory and is proud to be one of the sponsors
of this invaluable resource.
|
|
| |
|
|
| use
your voice... |
| |
|
|
| |
To
support current Texas Legislation to recycle toxic
TV waste. We need your help to convince Governor Perry and
the Texas Legislature that this legislation is important and
badly needed.
Visit
the Texas Campaign for the Environment website to find out
more and to add your voice: TV
RECYCLE |
|
| |
|
|
get
involved ...
| |
Diana
Dierks, a Sierra Club activist recently from the
Dallas group wants to start a discussion course in Austin
in cooperation with the Northwest Earth Institute.
The
Northwest Earth Institute is recognized as a national
leader in the development of innovative programs that empower
individuals and organizations to protect ecological systems.
If you are interested in participating in a discussion course,
please look at the DETAILS
and then contact Diana. |
|
| |
|
|
| save
the polar bears.. |
| |
|
|
| |
Carl
Pope, the Executive Director of the Sierra Club has a special
plea for anyone concerned with the future of the Polar Bear,
an iconic species that is seriously threatened with total
extinction. Please READ HIS
APPEAL and take action to help preserve this
magnificent predator from extinction. |
|
| |
|
|
| a
word from the pope... |
| |
|
|
| |
 Carl
Pope, that is. Mr. Pope, executive director of the Sierra
Club, introduces a series of energy messages that help cut
through some of the confusion about the difficult decisions
we face on alternative energy and some of the even more confusing
terminology used by those who advocate a solution. Follow
this link to check it out:
http://www.sierraclub.org/energy/video/ |
|
| |
|
|
| keep
in touch... |
| |
|
|
| |
Want to keep up with all the
current happenings in the Austin Sierra Club that affect your
life and your environment? Want to be informed about actions
that the Conservation group is taking to protect Austin water,
air and quality of life? Follow this link and scroll down
to the KEEP IN TOUCH block for links to email update lists:
TOUCH
|
|
| |
|
|
| stand
up for wilderness... |
| |
|
|
| |
 Help
with the designation of almost 600,000 acres of Big Bend National
Park as Wilderness Area, affording it the highest level of
conservation protection. Follow this link to find out how
you can help: BIGBENDWILD.
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
take
action ...
|
| |
|
|
| |
Be
an Environmental Hero! 
Do
you feel frustrated about the state of the environment,
the inaction of Congress, the domination of Big Business
in the democratic process? You are not alone. So don't
just sit there, do something, even if it is only expressing
your opinion to your elected representative. Follow
this link to a long list of National Sierra Club initiatives
to preserve and protect our environment and be an environmental
hero to your children and our future: TAKE
ACTION. |
|
| |
|
|
|
| contact
the epa... |
| |
|
|
| |
The coal
industry is pressuring the EPA to weaken the proposed
standard for SO2 and allow them to continue their dirty,
business as usual ways that pollute our air and damage
our lungs. Please help us support the EPA to say NO!
to polluters.
Help protect
American children from Sulfur Dioxide emissions from
coal. Click on the green graphic above to send your
EPA a message. |
|
| |
|
|
who
cares?? ... |
| |
|
|
| |
That's a question
that The League of Conservation Voters, sister organization
to the Sierra Club and founded by Sierra Club executive David
Brower, asks every year. The answer to the question can be
found in the LCV
Scorecard, an accounting of who voted for what
environmental legislation. Would it suprise you to know that
Texas is a serious contender in the race to the bottom of
the pile? Me neither. Check out the latest
voting record for the 111th Congress and be sure
to send your thanks to Lloyd Doggett (100% record), along
with the six other Texas representatives with 100% records.
While you are up, send a couple of rasberries to those Texas
representatives who have proven, once again, that rooting
for the corporate bucks is much more important than protecting
the lives and health of Texans and their children. Leading
that unsavory pack, with a 0% record, is Senator John Cornyn,
(even Kay Bailey Hutchison with an anemic 19% record is ahead
of him) but he is certainly not alone. |
|
| |
|
|
| take
action... |
| |
|
|
| |
Help
stop the Border Fence.
One of the
last destructive acts of the lame duck Bush Administration
was to mandate a border fence between the US and Mexico.
Read about
the issue - why
it will cause problems, why we don't need it
and what you can do about it.
Watch this
VIDEO
co-sponsored by the Sierra Club and the ILCP. |
|
| |
|
|
| nature
for children... |
| |
|
|
| |
Since
2006 the Sierra Club has been involved in a program to introduce
children to Nature (see the article
on the No Child Left Inside Act from the Sierra
Newsletter)
For
another supporting view on the importance of early education
about the natural world, check out this article from Orion
magazine, "Leave
No Child Inside."
If
you would like to urge your representative to vote for the
Sierra Club-backed "No Child Left Inside Act," please
follow this link: NCLIA
Bill |
|
| staying
cool ... |
| |
|
|
| |
Austin
is only one of the Central Texas cities that have signed on
to the Sierra Club program called Cool Cities, a local, hands-on
effort to fight global warming with tangible results and projects
YOU can contribute to. Here is the Cool Cities profile for
AUSTIN.
Join
the effort. Be a part of the solution. Follow this link to
GET INVOLVED |
|
| |
|
|
| pick
your poison... |
| |
|
|
| |
 Let's
face it: as long as we continue to drive gas guzzlers, (and
a grateful and respectful tip of the hat to those who use
bikes and busses to their full potential), we need to buy
gas for them to guzzle. At least we can buy gas from the companies
with the BEST environmental and human rights records and avoid
buying gas from the WORST of them. Check out the Sierra Club's
list of the BEST
and WORST GAS COMPANIES in this global, consolidated
market and do your part by patronizing only the best ones.
|
|
| |
|
|
| book
review ... |
| |
|
|
| |
 It
is “The state’s longest continuously marked and
maintained footpath” and winds through the diverse ecology
of the Sam Houston National Forest from outside Richards,
Texas on the west to outside of Cleveland, Texas on the eastern
end and yet most Texans, even avid hikers and Sierra Club
members are not aware that it exists. This guidebook may change
that. Read the review of Karen Somers' trail guide, The
Lone Star Hiking Trail by clicking on the link below:
Read the
TRAIL BOOK REVIEW |
|
| |
|
| Take
it from Teddy: 
"Defenders
of the short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will,
if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless
extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things sometimes
seek to champion them by saying that "the game belongs to the
people." So it does; and not merely to the people now alive,
but to the unborn people. The "greatest good for the greatest
number" applies to the number within the womb of time, compared
to which those now alive form but an insignificant fraction. Our
duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to
restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage
of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of
all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit,
purpose, and method." - Theodore Roosevelt, A Book-Lover's
Holidays in the Open (1916)
|
|
Up
to Top
JOIN
THE SIERRA CLUB - CLICK ON THE GRAPHIC LINK BELOW TO JOIN ONLINE
and get a Sierra Club BACKPACK:
Join
us..
Email
addresses on this page protected by spam-busting code developed
by Joe Maller.
See his site at http://www.joemaller.com
for details. Thanks, Joe!
Sierra
Club and "Explore, Enjoy and Protect the Planet" are
registered trademarks of the Sierra Club.
Sierra Club Website Terms
and Conditions of Use and Privacy
Policy.
Last
updated:
August 17, 2010
Content © 1999-2002 by the Sierra Club. |
|
