July 9, 2018 Photo by Alain Bachellier, words added by Sierra Club — Colorado Chapter By Gabrielle Gionet I need to confess something. Even though I work for the Sierra Club, I sometimes use plastic water bottles. I buy them at concerts. I purchase them when traveling in other countries…

June 26, 2018 By Gabrielle Gionet The amount of garbage on lakeshores and beaches is piling up. Fortunately, efforts to reduce plastic waste are also accumulating. Just three days ago, major food supplier Bon Apétit, serving restaurants in over 33 states, banned the use of plastic straws. The city of…

By Gabrielle Gionet The San Juan Wilderness Bill Has Reached the Senate Floor! The Queen of the San Juans might soon have her kingdom. Colorado Senator Michael Bennet has recently introduced the San Juan Mountains Wilderness Act to protect several areas of Southern Colorado, a wilderness area including Mount Sneffels…

Author Jonathan Thompson on the Inherent Connection Between People and Place By Maggie O’Shea June 11, 2018 Growing up in Colorado, author Jonathan Thompson says the landscape was always central to his life. As is true in many areas of Colorado, community members of his hometown of Durango often choose to live there because of the surrounding environment. Thus, a deep…

January 25, 2018 By Cheyenne DeChristopher Horn blasts and the constant whiz of trucks speeding past one another drown out the carefree laughter of children at play below the concrete viaducts of the interstate. In this Denver neighborhood, smokestack plumes, dead twisted trees and the great looming shadows of factories…

May 23, 2018 Photo Credit: Kylie Hensen When Colorado Sierra Club Storyteller Intern Kylie Henson met Colorado-native Geoffrey DeSena this at the Colorado Earth Day Celebration, his passion for the planet was apparent. He was talkative, excited and knowledgeable. Geoffrey had traveled around the globe studying sustainability and environmental policy…

By Katie O’Reilley| Feb. 27, 2018 It’s no accident that the most heralded and pioneering natural explorers that appear in U.S. history books tend to be white. Black men and women who made as significant a contribution to America’s Great Outdoors as their white counterparts were often elided from history…

April 16, 2018 By Arielle Robinson First, they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a Socialist. * What creates change? Is it marches or politicians? Is it the evidence of blatant injustice seen through human rights violations calling at our morality…

May 4, 2018 By Arielle Robinson There’s a lot going on in the environmental movement and it can be hard to keep up. Fortunately, filmmakers have done the legwork for you. Here are some of the environmental documentaries that can break down some of the largest issues affecting us! So…