In the Thick of It: My Life in the Sierra Club

In the Thick of It: My Life in the Sierra Club

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Sign in via your Institution Sign in. Purchase Subscription prices and ordering Short-term Access To purchase short term access, please sign in to your Oxford Academic account above. This article is also available for rental through DeepDyve. Email alerts New issue alert. Receive exclusive offers and updates from Oxford Academic. The Sierra Club opposes dams it considers inappropriate, including some government-built dams in national parks.

The Sierra Club continues to support removal of the dam. The Sierra Club is a member of the BlueGreen Alliance, a coalition of environmental groups and labor unions. The BlueGreen Alliance was formed in and grew out of a less-formal collaboration between the Sierra Club and the United Steelworkers. In , the Laborers' International Union of North America left the coalition due to the Sierra Club and other environmental groups' opposition to the Keystone Pipeline.

Immigration was historically among the most divisive issues within the club. In , after years of debate, the Sierra Club adopted a neutral position on immigration levels.

As the club has shifted to the left over the years, this position was amended in to support "an equitable path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants". Although the position of the Sierra Club has generally been favorable towards immigration, some critics of the Sierra Club have charged that the efforts of some club members to restrain immigration, are a continuation of aspects of human population control and the eugenics movement.

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Ehrlich 's book, The Population Bomb , in which he said that population growth was responsible for environmental decline and advocated coercive measures to reduce it. Some observers have argued that the book had a "racial dimension" in the tradition of the Eugenics movement, and that it "reiterated many of Osborn's jeremiads.

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During the s, some Sierra Club members, including Paul Ehrlich's wife Anne , [47] wanted to take the Club into the contentious field of immigration to the United States. The Club's position was that overpopulation was a significant factor in the degradation of the environment. Accordingly, the Club supported stabilizing and reducing U.

Some members argued that, as a practical matter, U. They urged the Club to support immigration reduction. The Club had previously addressed the issue of "mass immigration", [50] and in , the organization's Population Committee and Conservation Coordinating Committee stated that immigration to the U. Other Sierra Club members thought that the immigration issue was too far from the Club's core environmentalist mission, and were also concerned that involvement would impair the organization's political ability to pursue its other objectives.

Population Stabilization", which now stands for "Support U. The controversy resurfaced when a group of three immigration reduction proponents ran in the Sierra Club Board of Directors election, hoping to move the Club's position away from a neutral stance on immigration, and to restore the stance previously held. With the increased number of progressive activists joining the club in recent years, the Sierra Club has dramatically shifted its stance on immigration further towards the affirmative.

Today, the Sierra Club supports a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, opposes a border wall [66] and works with immigrant groups to promote environmental justice.

The Sierra Club has come under criticism for opposing high-density housing development projects in California, which are intended to reduce housing shortage and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Or are they actually committed to fighting climate change by providing enough housing for Californians in low-carbon, infill areas? Because their opposition to SB unfortunately indicates more of the former than the latter.

A c 3 organization, it was founded after the Internal Revenue Service revoked the Sierra Club's tax-exempt status due to the group's political activities. The Sierra Club added its first Canadian chapter in and in opened a national office in Ottawa. This was a separate organization that used the "Sierra Club" name under license from the Club; it changed its name to Earthjustice in Founded by Adam Werbach in , it has 30, members.

The Sierra Club Voter Education Fund is a group that became active in the Presidential election by airing television advertisements about the major party candidates' positions on environmental issues. Through the Environmental Voter Education Campaign EVEC , the Club sought to mobilize volunteers for phone banking, door-to-door canvassing and postcard writing to emphasize these issues in the campaign.

The organization maintains a publishing imprint, Sierra Club Books , publishing books on environmental issues, wilderness photographic essays, nature guides, and other related subjects. They publish the Sierra Club Calendars, perennial bestsellers, featuring photographs by well-known nature photographers such as Galen Rowell. They also publish the John Muir library, which includes many of their founder's titles. The Wilderness Travel Course is a basic mountaineering class that is administered by the Sierra Club. Michael Brune reported that he learned of the gifts after he succeeded Carl Pope as executive director of the Sierra Club in Brune reported that he ended the financial agreement with natural gas industry interests.

Presidents of the Sierra Club have included: The Sierra Club's executive directors have included: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sierra Club Motto Explore, enjoy and protect the planet. LeConte William F. Tappaan — Aurelia Harwood — Francis P. Fischer — Carl Pope — Michael Brune. Dorsey Jim Dougherty William O. Environment portal Ecology portal Earth sciences portal Sustainable development portal Energy portal.

Habitat conservation List of environmental organizations List of recreational organizations Massachusetts v. Morton Sustainability Timeline of environmental events. Retrieved 14 December Retrieved 1 May Interest Group Action in Congressional Elections. The American Conservation Movement Boston: Little, Brown, , pp. Archived from the original on Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest. Island Press, , pp. Sierra Club leader departs amid discontent over group's direction Los Angeles Times , 19 November Archived from the original on July 9, Retrieved 1 June Archived from the original on 16 September Retrieved 14 June The National Geographic Magazine.

Find the Best Hiking Buddy in 1 Day: Culhane 26 November Clair, Jeffrey August 1, Coal Plants By ". Archived from the original on April 8, Retrieved 30 April Archived from the original on 23 December Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism. University of Minnesota Press.

Archived from the original on 21 February The Atlas of California. A Documentary and Reference Guide. Let the People Judge. The Promise of Wilderness. The Nation's Largest Landlord. Reforming Federal Land Management. Inside the Equal Access to Justice Act. How to Save a River.

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