Club Activity

The Next Meeting of the Florida Chapter is on December 1. The meeting
will be held near Lakeland. To see the draft agenda
Go to our chapter calendar page.

Your Pelican newsletter for Winter is now available. You can read it online
or download a copy to print from Our Pelican page.

Looking for information on a Florida environmental issue?
Sierra Club Florida is involved in campaigns for Smart Energy, Safe and Healthy Communities, and Protection and Restoration of the Everglades.
For links to these issues and more go to our Issue Page
Or, pull down a topic from our Select a Topic toolbar.

Our Sierra Club Florida blog
is up and running at sierraclubfloridanews

Sierra Club Florida is an all volunteer organization. If you want to help out at a local level, please see your local Group Chair. Go to Sierra Florida Groups to find your local Sierra Club. To volunteer at the chapter (state) level, please email Rudy.Scheffer@sierraclub.org or find the leader for a particular issue on the issue page. For example, to get involved working on a Bottle Bill, go to our Bottle Bill Page where you will find the contact information for Linda Demler.

Sierra Club Green Home is a tool for sourcing environmentally friendly, green-checked businesses, and picking up green tips and techniques.

The Climate Project is an international non-profit organization founded by Nobel Laureate and former Vice President Al Gore, dedicated to preserving the climate balance on which the world depends. Their mission is to raise public awareness of the current climate crisis through 3,000 volunteers from around the world, all of whom have been personally trained by Mr. Gore to educate the public on climate change. TCP presenters give a version of the slide show featured in the Academy-Award winning film An Inconvenient Truth and have reached a combined audience of more than 5 million people worldwide. In addition to enabling the general public to schedule climate change presentations, their site provides the latest news on climate change and related issues. Click here for their website

Problems with this page? Contact webmaster@florida.sierraclub.org

Take Action

Help get the Everglades Skyway Built. We are looking for volunteers to help keep the pressure on to protect the Everglades. For info, go to Build the Skyway.

Work is underway on a Sunshine State Bottle Bill and it is time for you to help. For more info go to Bottle Bill

Stop using Plastic Bags! Plastic doesn't go away. You know that. Its time to stop using. See our Waste Minimization page and join us today.

In The Press

11/11/12 Florida Governor Rick Scott orders the St. Johns River Water Management District to examine which part of its 600K acreage - that includes land acquired under the Florida "Forever" program - is surplus and can be sold!!! (See article in Orlando Sentinel)

11/10/12 Problem child, Niagara Bottling, uses superstorm Sandy to squeeze additional water from the Floridian Aquifer in Central Florida. (See article in Orlando Sentinel)