Announcements
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Welcome!
We are the Northern Kentucky Group of the Sierra Club, one of the groups that make up the Cumberland Chapter, Kentucky's presence in the Sierra Club. Our group
consists of members who reside in Boone, Bracken,
Campbell, Carroll, Fleming, Gallatin, Grant, Harrison, Kenton, Mason,
Pendleton and Robertson counties and we are your neighbors and friends!
Formed in 1982, and we have monthly informative meetings and offer an annual program of hiking, backpacking,
bicycling, canoeing and service outings.
Please come to any of our meetings to meet us, join us to help protect the enviroment and have fun at the same time!
The Sierra Club's members are 700,000 of your friends and neighbors. Inspired by nature, we work together to protect our communities and the planet. The Club is America's oldest, largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization.
The Sierra Club was founded in 1892 by John Muir.
To learn more about the Sierra Club’s history and accomplishments over the past century
click here.
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Compass
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:10:18 -0800
Coal, Energy Solutions
Global Warming & Clean Energy News Round-Up
I thought I'd take a moment to dig out from under the three feet of snow here on the East Coast and share some recent news of note from around the web. First, as if we didn't get enough with... | Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:38:41 -0800
Coal, Coal-Director
The People Speak Out in Favor of Stronger Smog Standards
This is the weekly blog post from Bruce Nilles, director of the Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign. "I've been hospitalized many times with asthma attacks. It's scary when you can't catch your breath. When I was young, going to the... | Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:49:32 -0800
Coal, Energy Solutions
Creating the Most Jobs
Glenn Hurowitz has a good column over on Grist about which industries produce the most jobs per million dollars of government money invested. Using research from the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, he helped pull together... | Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:38:26 -0800
Coal, Energy Solutions
Recap of Yesterday's EPA Smog Hearings
The many people who attended yesterday's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hearings on its proposed ozone/smog rule are calling them a success. The proposed National Ambient Air Quality Standard follows the recommendation of EPA scientists and numerous health groups, setting the... | Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:33:16 -0800
Coal, Energy Solutions
Live-Blogging the EPA Ozone/Smog Hearings
Today we've got folks at the two Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ozone/smog rule hearings in Houston, Texas, and Arlington, Virginia. They're live-blogging right here (and tweeting), so follow along! If you need more information on just what this proposed EPA... | Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:35:39 -0800
Coal, Coal-Director, Energy Solutions
National Day of Action Against Coal Ash
This is the weekly post from Bruce Nilles, director of the Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign. Today, Jan 28th, Sierra Club and our allies at Earthjustice, Environmental Integrity Project, NRDC and grassroots groups across the country are participating in a... | Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:38:38 -0800
Coal, Coal-Director, Energy Solutions
Global Warming Polls Show Shrinking Support for Action
If President Obama wants to lead our country on global warming via his State of the Union speech tonight, he'd better find some even more inspiring words, unfortunately. (Maybe from Hansen and the others in the videos from this Climate... |
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