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Deep in the Coal River Valley of West Virginia, the town of Whitesville clings to life along State Route 3. Its three-block downtown is marked by empty lots, boarded-up windows, [...]

In the quiet moments before dawn, a lone figure picks his way along the rocky Nova Scotia coast. Following a river inland, he stops in a small valley ringed with [...]

If you're going to experience farm life--even for a day--you've got to start out with a big farm breakfast. When I arrive at Ellen Straus's home in rural west Marin [...]

On a hot August day, Amtrak's California Zephyr rumbled north past Sacramento and through quaint Colfax, an early railroad town. I was on my way to the Sierra Club's Clair [...]

Politics trumps public opinion in forest battle--for now The Clinton administration elicited an outpouring of public support when it proposed a ban on roadbuilding, logging, and other destructive activities on [...]

After sitting on the steps of Ottawa's Parliament Hill every day for two weeks, ingesting only water and Gatorade, Elizabeth May had lost 15 pounds and was too weak to [...]

AN ENVIRONMENTALIST'S GUIDE TO GASOLINE IN A PERFECT WORLD, WE'D ALL COMMUTE ON ELECTRIC BUSES AND DO OUR ERRANDS by bicycle or on foot. Meanwhile, however, many of us have [...]

How a corporation got the rights to life's most basic necessity In the poorest neighborhoods of Cochabamba, Bolivia, there is no indoor plumbing. Residents draw from communally owned wells, while [...]

'You could talk about walking through the canyons, and past the cool streams,' Matt Bybee sighs, 'but you can't describe what it's like.' The high school senior from Farmington, Utah, [...]

ON ITS WAY TO BECOMING THE NATION'S LARGEST GRASSROOTS CONSERVATION ORGANIZATION, THE SIERRA CLUB MADE ITS MARK IN THE ANNALS OF MOUNTAINEERING. WHEN THE SIERRA CLUB WAS FORMED in 1892, [...]

As a Sierra Club leader from 1966 to 1999, Michael McCloskey traveled around the country, watching the environmental struggle grow from a grassroots insurgency to a national movement. Wherever he [...]

Friends in the White House, but few foot soldiers Logging and mining magnates everywhere must have bowed their heads when People for the USA, one of the country's leading 'wise-use' [...]

Culture Jam: The Uncooling of America by Kalle Lasn (William Morrow, $25) debunks the American dream with humor and verve. Like Adbusters, the magazine that Lasn founded and publishes, Culture [...]

In March 1999, the Sierra Club set an ambitious agenda: protect 100 million acres from development and resource exploitation by 2003. The wild places we hope to preserve include six [...]

The fight against big money continues For the first time in modern American history, voters woke up the day after the election not knowing who their next president would be. [...]

A stack of outfits hides behind Melinda Pierce's office door, including a conservative suit for attending fundraisers and a blouse, slacks, and Doc Martens shoes for spur-of-the-moment lobbying. Within five [...]

Last September the Sierra Club's highest honor, its John Muir Award, went to Carla Cloer, a Porterville, California, teacher who after two decades of work finally gained protection for the [...]

Connect with green organizations and like-minded youth, and make your environmental dream a reality. get active Organizations, training programs, and more BAY AREA ACTION, 265 Moffett Blvd., Mountain View, CA [...]

The Sierra Club's positions on economic sanctions, global warming, and other important issues will reach a broader audience this election season, thanks to a partnership with Voter.com, a new commercial [...]

The 'Get Outdoors' portion of the Sierra Club's Web site (www.sierraclub.org/outings/) was nominated in March for a Webby, the Internet's most prestigious content award, in the Travel category. According to [...]

In 65 chapters and hundreds of local groups spanning 21 ecoregions and two nations, Sierra Club members are hard at work protecting our natural heritage. Pacific Coast WHALE LOVERS BEAT [...]

Following the trail of Lewis and Clark with paintbrush in hand and history in mind Even though the bicentennial celebration of Lewis and Clark's expedition is still three years off, [...]

New courtroom support is bolstering the Club's biggest conservation campaigns. For three decades, the Sierra Club legal program has been winning lawsuits to protect wildlands and wildlife and reduce toxic [...]

In 65 chapters and hundreds of local groups spanning 21 ecoregions and two nations, Sierra Club members are hard at work protecting our natural heritage. Southern Appalachia TAKE A TOUR [...]

Jeffrey van Ee, a longtime activist with the Sierra Club's Toiyabe Chapter, can finally speak his mind about urban-growth issues around Las Vegas. After a protracted legal battle, a February [...]

Living in the city conserves resources. Now, in Seattle, it can save money too. The Location Efficient Mortgage (LEM), introduced in November by Continental Savings Bank and Fannie Mae, the [...]

Activists target polluters, negligent landlords When Melissa Gardner's son was four years old, a test showed that he had too much lead in his blood. The test turned out to [...]

American Southeast Florida activists celebrated in June when the state quashed plans to build a cement plant near the scenic Ichetucknee River (see 'Cement Nix-ers' in 'Homefront,' November/ December 1999). [...]

The Universe Below: Discovering the Secrets of the Deep Sea by William J. Broad; Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, $15 More than 700 people have traveled into space since Vostok I launched [...]

Pacific Coast ONE HIGHWAY'S TOLL On monthly nature walks through the rolling hills of Orange County, California, Karl Warkomski teaches visitors how to identify native plants. He also recruits them [...]

At its 1999 national awards ceremony in September, the Sierra Club lauded young volunteers and seasoned conservationists, cyberactivists and outings leaders. The top honor bestowed at the San Francisco event, [...]

FIVE BOLD IDEAS FOR THE NEW CENTURY A clearcut prevented in Georgia. A golf course blocked in Hawaii. A mining claim denied in Wisconsin. Local victories like these are the [...]

Before Edgar Wayburn's first visit to Alaska in 1967, few Sierra Club members knew much about the great wilderness to the north. All that changed when the Club's then-president presented [...]

In 65 chapters and hundreds of local groups spanning 21 ecoregions and two nations, Sierra Club members are hard at work protecting our natural heritage. American Southeast CEMENT NIX-ERS Rising [...]

Pacific Coast RAINFOREST ON WHEELS Elizabeth Hagan didn't even know there was a rainforest in British Columbia before she visited the area last summer. 'When I thought of Canada, I [...]

In 65 chapters and hundreds of local groups spanning 21 ecoregions and two nations, Sierra Club members are hard at work protecting our natural heritage. Colorado, Plateau SACRED, NOT STONEWASHED [...]

When Bill McKibben looks into the future, he sees a world where people may live forever, where parents could choose to have a child with the smarts of a Nobel [...]

Zachary Orman had his epiphany while skiing in Stanislaus National Forest, where a bleak clearcut spoiled the majestic view. Kham Vang awoke at a peaceful campsite on the Feather River [...]

With 95 percent of the vast Lone Star State in private hands, there's not much wild land for the public to enjoy. So it's no surprise that Padre Island National [...]

At the dawn of the automotive age, it wasn't uncommon for motorists to carry six spare tires on a long journey. Thanks to poor design and bumpy roads, the average [...]

Rhonda Anderson ends every phone call and e-mail with a single word: 'Peace.' It's something that's in short supply in her home of Detroit, where 26 percent of inner-city residents [...]

The U.S. government says it can't be done. But our northern neighbor believes a major industrial nation can significantly reduce its climate-altering pollution without harming its economy. In November, Ottawa [...]

From the heights of the Ireteba Peaks to the depths of Arrow Canyon, from the Joshua trees of Wee Thump to the ponderosa pines of the LaMadre Mountains, some 450,000 [...]

The world's fastest land mammal and a deft hunter, the cheetah is also, at heart, a big scaredy-cat. When challenged, it will run, not fight, a trait that inspired a [...]

If you'd attended a parade in Zumbrota or Stillwater or Eagan, Minnesota, this summer, you probably would have heard the marching band, waved at the local politicians, and smiled at [...]

In the 1930s, the United States was a nation of farmers, with a quarter of American workers living off the land. Since then, their ranks have dwindled steadily, now numbering [...]

The Sierra Club and the natural environment lost a dear friend and staunch ally in March when Peggy Wayburn passed away at the age of 84. A native New Yorker, [...]

What's an endangered fish without water to swim in? That's the question environmentalists are asking since the Bush administration withdrew key habitat protections for 19 endangered populations of Northwest salmon [...]

It seemed like a typical all-American road trip: Over 700 miles and five days in February, Sierra Club organizers Darden Rice and Joe Murphy sampled local cuisine (oyster stew, heart [...]

Environmentalists have long warned of the ecological risks posed by Bt corn, which is genetically engineered to resist European and southwestern corn borers. Now farmers have yet another reason not [...]