Compass
Wed, 16 May 2012 10:10:54 -0700
Greentech, Oil, Safe and Healthy Communities, Transportation
Plugging into the Focus
Last week, I had fun test-driving the Ford Focus Electric, which goes on sale this month in California, New York, and New Jersey -- and in other markets later this year. Like the Nissan Leaf and Mitsubishi i-MiEV, the other... | Tue, 15 May 2012 14:20:38 -0700
Transportation, Transportation-Director
Getting it Right
Metro Atlanta (and Georgia) can do better -- that's why Sierra Club's Georgia Chapter opposes ballot measures that will fund transportation projects set to come before Georgia's voters in July. The Chapter noted that its decision to oppose the measures... | Mon, 14 May 2012 12:27:29 -0700
Consequences, International, Tar Sands
The Freedom Train: Canadian First Nations Ride to Stop Tar Sands
Drums and prayer songs, dances and garden-grown gifts greet riders on the Freedom Train wherever they stop on their journey across Canada. The riders represent the Yinka Dene Alliance and other First Nations groups who want the crude oil transporter... | Fri, 11 May 2012 10:40:09 -0700
Energy Solutions, Natural Gas, Safe and Healthy Communities
Farm Owner Scatters Wife's Ashes to Protect Land From Natural Gas Fracking
This week, Aaron Mair represented the Sierra Club in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania where a local farmer, Dr. Stephen Cleghorn, held a special event to remember his late wife and deposit her ashes in defiance and opposition to the natural gas... | Fri, 11 May 2012 09:13:53 -0700
Coal, Coal-Director, Energy Solutions, Health, Politics, Safe and Healthy Communities
My Mother's Day Wish
As the director of the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign, I have to do a lot of traveling, which means spending more time than I would like away from my two-year-old daughter, Hazel. Just this Wednesday, I got home from... | Thu, 10 May 2012 13:03:43 -0700
Energy Solutions, Oil, Politics, Transportation
Senator Sanders and Rep. Ellison Introduce the 'End Polluter Welfare Act'
Every year, massive oil companies like Exxon and Chevron make headlines for the billions in profits they rake in at the expense of our environment, our economy and the health of our families. And every year, those exact same companies... | Thu, 10 May 2012 11:00:00 -0700
Coal, Health, India, International, Politics
More From the India to Appalachia Trip: Grave Comparisons
"These are invisible communities. They aren't covered in the national media, and they aren't covered in the state media." This is how Soumya Dutta described India's rural and tribal communities in the shadow of massive coal projects. After two days... |
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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 was founded in 1892 by John Muir.
To learn more about the Sierra Club’s history and accomplishments over the past century
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