The Rhode Island Sierra Club
Your Voice for the Environment
Our Vision:
- Broaden the prosperity of RI communities with affordable commutes and green jobs;
- Reduce our dependence on dirty, imported oil;
- Encourage families to develope a stronger relationship with the outdoors.
- Protect our fresh ocean air and the legacy of our coastlines by reducing global warming pollution to sustainable levels (80% by 2050);
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What We're up To:
Yearly Retreat This Sunday, November 18, 2012 at Kettle Pond Visitor's Center. Learn more on our Outings page.
Keeping an Eye on the State House
Abel Collins of the RI Sierra Club joins the journalists at ecoRI for their weekly podcast. The topic? The wins and losses for the environment during this years legislative session. After clicking the link, scroll down in the playlist and click on "Legislative Progress?"
Hitting the Trails
You're missing out on some great adventures if you haven't been joining the Rhode Island Sierra Club for its outings. Check out some pictures from our recent excursions to Long Pond, The White Mountains, The Great Swamp, Stepping Stone Falls and our inaugural ecoBBQ. Next up, the outings club will head south to Kettle Pond for yearly retreat and hike. You can learn about all of our upcoming outings by clicking the 'Outings' tab on the left navigation bar.
Saving the Oceans
The Oceans Working Group is currently concentrating on the National Ocean Policy, which will have important impacts on how this country manages its ocean resources. In February, we submitted a public comment letter to the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force on their Draft Implementation Plan for the National Ocean Policy strategic action priorities. We advocated for mechanisms to assure clean, healthy waters that sustain ocean life in abundance, providing income for fishermen and food for all of us, as well as other benefits. We also stressed that the Implementation Plan should expressly attribute climate change to human-induced greenhouse gas emissions, and asserted that no ocean policy is complete without acknowledging the need for a global reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to levels much lower than present-day levels.
On April 4 at URI's Bay Campus, the Oceans Working Group teamed up with several other organizations to host a screening of the documentary Ocean Frontiers, a film about what integrated oceans management looks like in practice. To see excerpts from the film, like how changing farming practices in Iowa can help the health of the Gulf of Mexico, check out the website, ocean-frontiers.org/ri/.
To become involved in the Oceans Working Group, please email Sarah Schumann at oceans@risierraclub.org.
Moving the Planet and RI with the GO 60mpg campaign and Transportation Choices 2020!
Take a moment to watch our video highlighting the RI Sierra Club's efforts to bring awareness to the ways public transportation and multimodal streets can play a part in reducing global warming rates.
Take action and get connected through our GO 60 campaign page
Get Involved!
Stay up to date with RI Sierra Club news:
- Receive the CoolCATs Weekly newsletter
- Receive the Coastlines Quarterly newsletter
Support Transportation Choices 2020 and improve the ways we get around:
- Send a letter to your Representative asking for their support of the Pulbic Transit Investment Act
- Send Your State Leaders a letter telling them to make public transit a priority.
- Grassroots for Green Routes! Host a house party in your community.
- Learn about how transportation choices will help re-energize and protect the Ocean State.
- Find out about CTC, the growing coalition working on promoting transportation choices.
- Send a letter to the editor to fix transportation financing once and for all.
Check out RIPTA Riders:
RIPTA Riders is an independent grassroots group that's making waves in the
cause for public transit in the Ocean State. Join the group here.
Sign the petition to save RIPTA:
Make a donation to the RI Sierra Club:
Consider this online appeal and be a part of keeping Rhode Island green.
Help clean up the Deepwater Horizon oil spill:
The Sierra Club is cleaning up the gulf and holding the oil industry accountable! Let's move beyond oil!
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