Results for keyword: Sierra Club
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Thinking Past the Moment
The Sierra Club's Carl Zichella discusses the balancing act involved in finding the best -- and least environmentally sensitive -- places to put big renewable energy projects
by Sarah Gilman, Jun 22, 2009 -
High Noon
Environmentalists are arguing passionately over large-scale solar development on California's Mojave Desert.
by Judith Lewis , May 11, 2009 -
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 -
Environmentalists must learn to compromise
Environmentalists opposed to desalination plants are indulging in wishful thinking, because conservation is not enough to provide the arid West with water during a drought.
by Jonathan Parkinson, Mar 31, 2009 -
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 -
Nonprofitable times
Many conservation groups are feeling the pinch.
by Sarah Gilman, Dec 05, 2008 -
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 -
Four decades of the Sierra Club
Michael McCloskey’s autobiography, In the Thick of It: My Life in the Sierra Club, covers four decades of his life and work as an environmentalist
by Steve Rumsey, Nov 13, 2006 -
Dear friends
New fall interns Fletcher Jacobs and Evan Tea; remembering Sierra Club’s Larry Mehlhaff; visitors.
by Fletcher Jacobs, Evan Tea and Jodi Peterson, Sep 18, 2006 -
Ferret recovery pioneer moves on
District Ranger Bill Perry, who led the effort to help restore endangered black-footed ferrets, is leaving South Dakota’s Buffalo Gap National Grassland for a job in Washington, D.C.
by Tom Domek, Aug 22, 2005






