#sierra club

[vintagecamping]

Ansel Adams and friends warm up by the fire somewhere in the Sierra Nevada Mountains

California

1931

#vintage camping #campfire light #ansel adams #history #sierra club #california #hiking #sierra nevada mountains #outdoors #travel

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This article is from last year, but this year is when Congress is deciding on the bill one of my state's representatives put forward to allow people to hunt and kill grizzlies, which are still threatened and are a keystone species in many ecosystems here.

Here's a link to donate to the Sierra Club, which is an environmental organization that does a lot of work to fight against these kinds of potentially catastrophic policies.

Here is another article from a different source about the proposed bill (this article is also from last year, but again, the bill is going to be decided soon).

#grizzlies #grizzly bear #threatened species #keystone species #idaho #us #u.s. #us politics #environment #ecosystem #sierra club #wildlife

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#sierra club #TN #TVA #tennessee #tennessee valley authority #please sign and share #petition #petitions #please sign this petition #please share #please sign #climate action #climate science #climate activism #stop pollution #go green #fuck fossil fuels #stop fossil fuels #climate crisis #climate news #climate change #climate and environment #climate emergency #climate catastrophe #climate justice #climate solutions #stop global warming #environmentalist #environmentalism #environmental activism

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By Julia Conley

Common Dreams

April 15, 2024

Climate action groups are vehemently rejecting the Biden administration's claim that the approval of a new offshore oil terminal—planned to be the largest in the U.S.—is in the "national interest," after the U.S. Department of Transportation announced the project had met several federal requirements and could begin operations by 2027.

The agency's Maritime Administration said last week that Enterprise Product Partners, a Houston-based pipeline company, had been granted a deepwater port license to build the Sea Port Oil Terminal (SPOT) near Freeport, Texas following a five-year federal review process.

The federal government determined the $1.8 billion terminal project had undergone sufficient environmental impact reviews and would overall benefit the country—even as it was projected by the Sierra Club, which has fought SPOT for several years, to emit greenhouse gases equivalent to those of nearly 90 coal-fired power plants.

"The evidence is clear that SPOT would be catastrophic to the climate, wildlife, and frontline communities of the Gulf," said Devorah Ancel, senior attorney with the Sierra Club. "It threatens the future existence of the endangered Rice's whale with a population of less than fifty, and its ozone pollution would compromise the health of thousands of Gulf residents who have endured decades of fossil fuel industry pollution. Make no mistake, SPOT is not in the national interest."

The project is expected to include two pipelines that would carry crude oil to the deepwater port each day, enabling the export of 2 million barrels of crude oil, loaded onto two supertankers at once, daily.

"Nothing about this project is in alignment with Biden's climate and environmental justice goals," said Kelsey Crane, senior policy advocate at Earthworks. "The communities that will be impacted by SPOT have once again been ignored and will be forced to live with the threat of more oil spills, explosions, and pollution. The best way to protect the public and the climate from the harms of oil is to keep it in the ground."

Allie Rosenbluth, U.S. manager at Oil Change International, noted that the project has been approved despite the International Energy Agency's clear assessment in 2021 that "all new investments in oil and gas projects must stop if the world is going to reach its climate goals," including limiting planetary heating to 1.5°C.

"The Biden administration's decision to approve the Sea Port Oil Terminal is a grave mistake. This approval will only harm local communities and ecosystems, and lead to even more devastating impacts of the climate crisis," said Rosenbluth. "The U.S. is already the largest producer of oil and gas and has the largest expansion plans globally. Instead of continuing this legacy of harm by approving fossil fuel projects, President Biden should be listening to the science and the masses of his constituents calling for an end to fossil fuels."

The direct action group Climate Defiance expressed doubt that the approval of SPOT will help Biden win over any voters as the 2024 election approaches.

Nine in 10 Democratic voters and Democratic-leaning independents told Pew Research Center last year that they believe the U.S. should prioritize developing renewable energy sources—and two-thirds of Republican voters under age 30 agreed.

"This project would be the single-largest oil export terminal in the U.S." said the group. "We are being boiled alive here, literally burned to death by 'moderate' politicians who see fit to torch us in the name of quarterly profits. How can we live like this? How can this go on?"

Last year was the hottest on record, and the first three months of 2024 have each broken records for high global temperatures. Scientists found last year that climate disasters including wildfires in Canada and extreme heat in Europe were made far more likely by fossil-fueled planetary heating.

Local organizers in Texas condemned the Biden administration's decision to ignore campaigners who have warned of the danger SPOT poses to marine habitats as well as people who live in the area where two crude oil pipelines have now been given final approval to run.

"We continue to struggle to see why Biden and [Transportation Secretary Pete] Buttigieg prefer to protect the corporate profits of billion-dollar oil giants like Enbridge and Enterprise over the hardcore objections of the people who would have to live with the consequences of pipelines criss-crossing our beaches," said Trevor Carroll, Brazoria County lead organizer with Texas Campaign for the Environment. "If you care about environmental justice and the climate, you just can't support a monstrosity like SPOT. The local community and the global climate justice movement are continuing to fight... This is not over."

Melanie Oldham, director of Better Brazoria, said SPOT will be "an oil spill waiting to happen that would not only lower property value, but harm our local ecosystems, ecotourism, beaches, recreation, and kill marine life like the endangered Rice's whale and Kemp's Ridley sea turtles."

"Those of us residents, beachgoers, and voters that have for the past four years opposed the SPOT offshore terminal and pipelines are very disappointed with the approval of the project license," said Oldham. "President Biden has again broken promises to protect frontline communities in Surfside and Freeport."

The administration's approval came three months after the White House announced it was delaying consideration of new gas export terminals, and the same day the federal government said fossil fuel companies will have to pay higher royalties in order to drill on federal lands.

But those climate actions paired with the SPOT approval amount only to "flip flopping," said Climate Defiance.

"It is not enough that the administration stopped new gas exports if they are going to back stab us with this death-sentence decision now," said the group. "This is not us being 'ungrateful.' This is the science. The pure, unvarnished, science."

#climate defiance #climate emergency #fossil fuels #crude oil #texas #enterprise product partners #sea port oil terminal #earthjustice #sierra club #joe biden #pete buttigieg #u.s. department of transportation

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President Joe Biden told an audience of conservation and environmental groups Wednesday that their work has never been more important at a time when they are battling the greatest threat facing future generations.

Speaking at the annual Capital Dinner of the League of Conservation Voters, Biden told the supportive audience there are “a lot of threats to our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren” but climate change “is the only truly existential threat.”

He said the audience members and his administration had done good work in combatting the threat but everyone needed to “finish the job.”

Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were endorsed by four environmental and conservation groups at the dinner: the League of Conservation Voters Action Fund, NextGen PAC, NRDC Action Fund and the Sierra Club. Speakers for the organizations praised the Biden-Harris team as the administration that has done the most to combat climate change.

In earlier comments, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was honored by the League with its lifetime achievement award, told the audience they were fighting for democracy with their environmental efforts.

“What you have done is the highest of patriotism, democracy in action. The story of America is the story of everyday Americans coming together, making your collective voices heard.”

Biden touted a number of the administration’s accomplishments, including the Inflation Reduction Act and its $375 billion for clean energy, the biggest climate law in history. He elicited cheers from the crowd as he ran through areas that have been designated as protected during his administration, as well as when he talked about the executive order he signed in April targeting investments to disadvantaged communities dealing with pollution.

Despite the endorsement and list of achievements and no visible protests at the dinner, recent steps the administration has taken have given the President a more mixed legacy and brought him under criticism by environmentalists and Democrats, although that was not evident at the event. Those decisions include the administration’s approval of the Willow project, a large-scale oil drilling project in Alaska, and the inclusion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline in West Virginia in the must-pass debt limit package the President negotiated with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

#us politics #news #the associated press #2023 #biden administration #president joe biden #League of Conservation Voters #climate change #global warming #vice president kamala harris #League of Conservation Voters Action Fund #NextGen PAC #NRDC Action Fund #Sierra Club #Nancy Pelosi #Inflation Reduction Act #clean energy #pollution #Willow project #Mountain Valley Pipeline #oil drilling

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Petition and map from John Muir and other founders of Sierra Club protesting a bill to reduce the size of Yosemite National Park, 1/2/1893. 

Record Group 233: Records of the U.S. House of Representatives

Series: Petitions and Memorials

Transcription:

To the Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture House of Representatives Washington, D.C. Dear Sir, Whereas at a meeting of the Sierra Club of Saturday, November 5th 1892, said club being a corporation formed for the purposes, to with: "To explore, enjoy and render accessible the mountain regions of the Pacific Coast; to publish authentic information concerning them; to enlist the support and co-operations of the people and the government in preserving the forests and other natural features of the Sierra Nevada Mountains" a resolution was introduced and unanimously adopted directing the Board of Directors to prepare a memorial to Congress against Bill H. R 5764 introduced by Mr. Carminetti and to use every effort to defeat it, Therefore The Board of Directors of the Sierra Club in accordance with the above resolutions do respectfully and emphatically protest against the diminution of the Yosemite National Park situated in California as contemplated in Bill H. R. 5764 introduced by Mr. Carminetti and referred by the House of Representatives to your honorable Committee As shown in the accompanying map all

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the territory outside of the blue lines is to be taken out of the Yosemite National Park Reservation, which would First: endanger in J.HS., R25E and R26E + J.3S, R25E the headwaters of the San Joaquin River, a river on whose water the irrigation of the whole San Joaquin Valley is dependent. Secondly: in J1S, J2S.R19E+ J1S, J2S.R20E it will denude the watersheds between the branches of the Tuolumne River and Merced River of the most valuable timber, destroy forests which in their magnific- ent growth from and attraction to visitors not only from the State of California, but from all over the United States and from abroad and although provision is made in paid bill to reserve a trail one mile square containing the Tuolumne Big Tree Grove and also a similar trail about the Merced Grove the destruction of the surrounding forest will necessarily cause a great danger through forest fires to these two groves of Sequoia gigantea, which ought to be and have heretofore bee protected by the United States Government with singular interest Thirdly: The taking of the Reservation of J2N+ J1N R19E will hand over to private ownership most valuable reservoir sites which ought to be jealously guarded for the benefit of the state at large Fourthly: The exemption of 1/2 J2N.R20E, of J2N R21E, J2N + 1/2 J1NR22E of J2N+ 1/2 J1N.R23E of J2N +3/4 J1NR.24E and of J1S R25E will endanger the watershed of the

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tributaries of the Tuolumne River as it passes through the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne River + finally through Hetch Hetchy Valley, a valley which in grandeur + uniqueness is in many respects the peer of Yosemite and will in future form one of the principal attractions of the Sierra Nevada of California If the Territory of the Yosemite National Park should be reduced in accordance with the bill H.R 5764, the dangers to guard against which the Park was orig- inally set aside, would again arise, the herds of sheep which now for two seasons have successfully been kept out of the reservation would denude the watersheds of their vegetation, the forest fires following in the wake of the herds would destroy the magnificent forests and threaten the reservation itself and the timber of price- less value of the speculator. The Directors of the Sierra Club respectfully point out that Senate Bill No 3235 proposed by Mr. Paddock will meet any objections in the interest of mining or farming industries, if there be any, to the continuance of the present limits of the Yosemite National Park Reservation. John Muir J.H. Senger, President Sierra Club Secretary Sierra Club Warren Olney First Vice - President Sierra Club San Francisco, Jan 2nd 1893

[page 4 image description] Map of Yosemite, labeled “MAP OF THE YO SEMITE NATIONAL PARK”. Part of the map is outlined in blue. 

#archivesgov #January 2 #1893 #1800 #Yosemite #Yosemite National Park #environment #conservation #Sierra Club

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#sierra club #planned obsolescence #obsolete technology #cyberpunk #high tech low life

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#talkin #tik tok #bocxtop #mayaisfiya #pollution #taylor swift #sierra club #environment

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“The ‘hard-working’ commissary department. Brains and Henry tear off a few snores.” This photo is part of a souvenir set of images of the 1926 outing of the Sierra Club to Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Teton. Photo from our online catalog.

Beginning in 1901, the Sierra Club held an annual outing, eventually known as the High Trip. Up until 1930, outings were led by William Colby. In 1926, some 200 hikers trailed by pack animals and cooks hiked into Yellowstone National Park. Hikers broke into small groups, exploring various different trails – this album follows one small group. This small group also climbed the Grand Tetons once out of Yellowstone, before heading home.

“Tap gets attention from the tonsorial department. Miggie clips 'em while Bobby A files 'em off:” A tonsorial department is focused on grooming (i.e. hair, nails, shaving). This is another image in the set from the 1926 outing of the Sierra Club, from our online catalog.

#sierra club #yellowstone #grand teton #national parks #hiking #camping #california history #history #california

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Margaret Murie was born on August 18, 1902. A naturalist, writer, adventurer, and conservationist dubbed the "Grandmother of the Conservation Movement" by both the Sierra Club and the Wilderness Society, she helped in the passage of the Wilderness Act, and was instrumental in creating the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. She was the recipient of the Audubon Medal, the John Muir Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom—the highest civilian honor awarded by the United States. She and her husband recruited U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas to help persuade President Dwight Eisenhower to set aside 8,000,000 acres (32,000 km2) as the Arctic National Wildlife Range, which was expended and renamed in 1980 by President Jimmy Carter.

#margaret murie #conservation #sierra club #arctic national wildlife refuge #presidential medal of freedom #science #science history #science birthdays #on this day #on this day in science history #women in science #women in history

[vintagecamping]

Hikers looking at Little Cahuilla Peak. California 1975

#vintage camping #campfire light #california #little cahuilla #hiking #camping #exploring #sierra club #outdoors #70s

[travelwithz]

Before heading home from backpacking, we stopped at Mammoth Lakes for an overnight stay at the ski resort to shower, sleep in a real bed, enjoy some beer and food at Distant Brewing. We also had a great breakfast at The Stove.

#travelwithz #california #food #craft beer #mammoth #2022 #backpacking #sierra club #USA

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April 22, 2022

Shawn Mendes via ig story for Earth Day

franciscoactivista ig post

Sierraclub ig video post

The Shawn Mendes Foundation ig post

#shawn mendes #earth day #april 22 #2022 #sierra club #video #ig story #shawn mendes ig story #shawn mendes foundation #earth day 2022 #activism #save our planet #save our oceans #protect our planet #francisco activa #francisco activista #dia de la tierra

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#sierra club #bureau of land management #please sign and share #petition #petitions #please sign this petition #please share #please sign #climate action #climate science #climate activism #go green #fuck fossil fuels

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#sierra club #red states #ben jealous #inflation reduction act #environment

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Boosting Awareness and Engagement by Monitoring Social Media Metrics- Calla Hall

In this day and age, it is essential for any company to ensure that their outreach on social media is successful and drives sales. This idea applies to nonprofit organizations just the same, but is arguably somewhat more difficult to achieve. Nonprofits often do not offer or sell any products, but rather ask followers for donations, volunteer work, or just their time and care. Unless someone already cares deeply about a cause, it is difficult to draw someone in to support it if it won’t benefit them. This is why it is important that nonprofit organizations invest in their social media presences. 

The Sierra Club is “the most historic grassroots environmental organization in the country”, still in operation after over 130 years. I was drawn to research this nonprofit because of all of the work they do surrounding wildlife and climate change. Over the years, members of the Sierra Club have done extensive conservation work leading up to, and continuing after, the establishment of the National Park Service. In addition to their environmental efforts, the Sierra Club also speaks out for several human rights and peace movements. According to an article about the Sierra Club on Britannica, the Black Lives Matter movement of 2020 inspired the Sierra Club to acknowledge the past racist actions of its founder, John Muir. Instead of staying silent about the situation, they decided to shed light on the roots of their organization to show how they have taken the steps to move forward and promote social justice. Although their bread and butter is environmentalism and conservation, it is clear that they are not afraid to speak up about other radical movements.

The Sierra Club seems to have the best vanity metrics on their Instagram page, where they surpass 360,000 followers and have about 6,500 posts. Although this is a lot compared to their other social media accounts, they could potentially improve this count by continuing to post informational and engaging content for their followers that may prompt them to share with others. The mix of informational posts, positive news, and negative developments on their feed gives a good variety of content that keeps followers engaged. However, their YouTube channel has much less of a reach, with only about 10,000 subscribers and 1,000 videos total. In comparison with this follower-to-posts ratio on Instagram, it shows a significant downgrade. I think that using their success on Instagram may be a good tool to take advantage of in order to improve their vanity metrics on YouTube. When posting an important story or giving followers information, it would be a good idea to link a YouTube video in the description of the post that goes more in-depth into the story or the information. If people engaged with the original post, they may be inclined to visit that YouTube video to learn more, which makes them a potentia, subscriber to the channel. They could also attempt to improve these metrics by switching up the type and length of the videos they post. If their Instagram Reels are performing better than long-form YouTube videos, creating YouTube shorts or shortening the length of their normal YouTube videos may be the answer to improve those vanity metrics.

In order to maintain their success on Instagram, one advanced metric I think the Sierra Club should focus on is audience engagement. Although they have a lot of followers and likes per post, what matters is how their content is causing those followers to participate and become involved. Paying attention to which kinds of posts bring in the most new viewers is important in understanding what content is the best to invest in. The posts that current followers choose to share is also an important aspect of audience engagement. In addition to this, I believe monitoring channel metrics such as profile and website visits would be beneficial to the Sierra Club when making posts on Instagram. Similar to the aforementioned metric, examining the amount of profile visits in correlation with the most recent posts is helpful in determining which posts are bringing in new viewers. Seeing how an increase in website visits correlates with Instagram posts can also help determine what social media strategies are engaging viewers to click through to the official website. Lastly, I think that monitoring the amount of saves as a behavioral metric would help the Sierra Club’s Instagram continue its success. Again, the posts that are getting viewers to save and share information are the posts that should be examined and replicated to ensure future successes.

There are several different metrics the Sierra Club could focus on in order to increase their engagement on their YouTube channel. An advanced metric that may be beneficial to monitor is the viewers’ time spent and content retention. If many users are watching a video up until a certain point and then clicking off, that may give insight into what video duration would suit the audience best in order to hold their attention. Additionally, monitoring the video views as a channel metric would help the Sierra Club understand what type of content is attracting an audience. This is also helpful to understand what different types of thumbnails and titles perform the best in getting users interested enough to click on the video. A behavioral metric that would be beneficial to track is the amplification rate. Reviewing which types of videos caused viewers to share with others and amplify the view count would help the Sierra Club, again, understand what styles, lengths, and topics of videos are performing successfully on their channel.

#social media #marketing #social media metrics #environmentalism #conservation #sierra club