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| Find Your Outside on a Sierra Club Trip Find your outside with our 2019 trip roster, featuring more than 300 itineraries across the U.S. and around the globe. Whether you’re looking for a family adventure, a challenging backcountry trek, or a volunteer vacation, we’ve got something to suit your tastes. This year, you'll find specialty trips for adults under 50, women, seniors, and LGBT+ adventurers—and check out additional options for younger travelers, including scholarships for adults 18-35. Book your reservation online or call (415) 977-5522 to join us. See all trips and sign up. |
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Photo courtesy Joseph Yaroch, Southern New Mexico Progressives |
| Trump's Destructive Shutdown More than 800,000 federal workers forced to get by without a paycheck, an inactive EPA leaving corporate polluters unchecked, public lands trashed, and vacation plans dashed—all because of President Trump's stubborn determination to squander billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars on a xenophobic, environmentally destructive border wall that he guaranteed Mexico would pay for. Tell your senators to speak up against Trump's destructive shutdown. |
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| Tell Us What You Think Every few years, Sierra magazine conducts a supporter/reader survey that helps us produce a magazine and website tailored to your interests and passions. Complete our survey, include your email address, and you'll be entered to win a $500 gift certificate from REI and a one-year national parks pass. Sierra values feedback from our readers and we appreciate your participation. Take the Sierra survey. |
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Photo courtesy of Cindy Hirschfeld |
| Happy Hutting Why embark on a hut trip? For starters, thereâs the allure of skiing untracked powder in the backcountry. Then thereâs the paradoxical pairing of solitude with the camaraderie that develops among your hutmates. And of course, getting back to basics in the wilderness is always a welcome respite from the plugged-in, high-stress daily grind. Thinking about a hut trip of your own? Here's how to plan one. |
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| Adopt a Cuddly Plush for Valentine's Day! When you symbolically adopt an adorable plush grizzly bear—or gray wolf, snowy owl, or sea otter—you are helping to protect America's magnificent wildlife and wildlands for generations to come. Order by Sunday, February 3, with code CUDDLES and get 20% off + FREE ground shipping. Hurry, supplies are limited! |
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Illustration courtesy of Peter Arkle |
| How Weird Was 2018? "The high point of my work week at Sierra comes on Thursday mornings," says senior editor Paul Rauber. Thatâs the day New York Cityâbased illustrator Peter Arkle submits his ideas for "In Case You Missed It," a weekly roundup of environmentally themed illustrations. Rauber says Arkleâs sense of the absurd is "a perfect match to the head-spinning strangeness of environmental news in the modern era." Check out this gallery of jazz whales, horny toadlets, and other strange environmental news. |
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| 8 Ways to Start Eating Less Meat Even those of us who salivate at the sight of a charred, sizzling ribeye fresh off the grill have to admit that consuming animal products is just plain lousy for the environment. According to a recent report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, animal agriculture harms the climate more than the combined emissions from every plane, train, car, bus, and boat in the world. Luckily, it’s getting easier to find tasty, satisfying alternatives to meat and dairy products that are good for the planet, good for your health, and easy on your wallet. Here are 8 easy ways to begin cutting down on animal edibles and reduce your carbon footprint at the table. |
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Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler | Photo courtesy of U.S. Department of Agriculture taken by Lance Cheung |
| Toxic Tragedy Acting EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler has proposed that his agency ignore the public health benefits provided by the Clean Air Act’s mercury and air toxics standards. This arbitrary decree turns a deliberately blind eye to the dangers of particulate pollution, putting the health of tens of thousands of people in jeopardy and bailing out the coal industry, even as virtually all economic indicators suggest that coal can’t compete with cleaner, cheaper energy from solar and wind. Read more about how Wheeler has cooked the books to benefit coal barons. |
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