High Country News

Sierra Club fights Keystone XL with civil disobedience

The act will be the first of its kind sanctioned by the group’s board of directors in its 120 year history, and may push the conversation over the controversial tar-sands oil pipeline to a new level.

by Judith Lewis Mernit, Feb 18, 2013
High Noon

Environmentalists are arguing passionately over large-scale solar development on California's Mojave Desert.

by Judith Lewis , May 11, 2009
Nonprofitable times

Many conservation groups are feeling the pinch.

by Sarah Gilman, Dec 05, 2008
The saga of Mineral King

California’s beautiful Mineral King Valley was deeply wounded by hardrock mining, but now it is on its way to wilderness protection.

by Tom Turner, Feb 01, 2009
The Group of 10 respond

Two decades after the SWOP letter, the big environmental groups report their progress on the issue of environmental justice.

by Marty Durlin, Feb 01, 2010
The most influential conservationist you've never heard of

The Sierra Club's Debbie Sease has spent three decades on Capitol Hill, fighting for the West.

by John Aloysius Farrell, May 01, 2011
The Shot Heard Round the West

Twenty years after the SouthWest Organizing Project accused conservation groups of ignoring environmental justice, diversity in the movement remains elusive.

by Marty Durlin, Jan 31, 2010
Nonprofits reap the profits

Christine MacDonald takes on the unscrupulous executives who run big environmental groups in Green, Inc.: An Environmental Insider Reveals How a Good Cause Has Gone Bad.

by Brian Park, Apr 14, 2009
Building a more effective environmental movement

In The Rebirth of Environmentalism, activist Douglas Bevington explores the relationship between the giant national organizations, like the Sierra Club, and the small grassroots groups.

by Felice Pace, Apr 25, 2010
Dear Friends

HCN hosts panel discussion in Berkeley about the West’s political future; notes from readers Mark Salvo and Michael Green.

by John Mecklin and Erin Halcomb, Feb 05, 2007