• Sustainability Series: Liberty, Justice, and Food For All

    The Farm Bill Every five years, Congress passes a bill that disburses almost 100 billion dollars annually. About 75% of the money goes to nutrition assistance programs. The remaining funds should be used to reduce climate impacts from agriculture and grow healthy food. Instead, almost all goes to subsidize agribusiness polluters. Farmers are paid to produce corn and soybeans, which are used as livestock feed (and to make ethanol). These subsidies encourage farming on ecologically sensitive lands and more destructive practices and contribute to the unhealthy American diet. Why? Because agribusiness has a powerful lobby and because few people understand the Farm Bill and our Congresspeople assume we don’t care.  Please watch this video and have questions ready: https://video.earthxtv.com/shows/law-nature/season/2/episode/1 Please review this flyer about residential organic waste through increased recycling: 2020.12.15 – Report on Increasing Residential Organic Waste Recycling in NYC (FINAL) Event Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 Event Time: 7:00 PM Zoom Registration: Click HERE and register for the virtual event Event Speakers:  PETER LEHNER, Managing Attorney Sustainable Food & Farming Earth Justice. Author of Farming for Our Future: The Science, Law, and Policy of Climate-Neutral Agriculture NYS SENATOR MICHELLE HINCHEY, State Chair of Senate Committee on Agriculture CAROL CLEMENT, Farmer/Owner Heather Ridge Farm, Sustainable Meat Producer Carolyn Dimitri, Applied Economist & Professor at NYU


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  • Sustainability Series: Redistricting, Equity, and Equality

    Redistricting, Equity, and Equality: Voting rights and…


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  • Sustainability Series: Mega Dams = Mega Damages

    Sierra Club New York City Group’s Sustainability Series is pleased to present this webinar on Why We Want New York State Renewably Generated Energy and Not Import Energy from Canadian Mega Dams that destroy the lives of Indigenous Peoples and eco-systems with all their life. Meeting Speakers:  I. GLOBAL OVERVIEW of MEGA DAMS ~ GARY WOCKNER- Global Environmentalist; Activist; Scientist; Writer; Environmental Whistleblower. II. AN INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVE ~ WILL NICHOLLS – Cree from Mistissiwi; Co-Founder and Editor in Chief, “The Nation,” a Montreal-based Publication; The Cree Still Protect Their Land. III. The HUDSON RIVER ~ GEORGE JACKMAN – Aquatic Ecologist; Environmental Activist; Habitat Restoration Manager, Riverkeeper. ~ MAYOR GARY BASSETT – Chairman of the Hudson 7; Mayor of the Village of Rhinebeck. IV. SOLUTIONS ~ BOB CIESIELSKI – Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter Chair of the Energy Committee; Tiers 1 & 2 ~ SHAY O’REILLY – Sierra Club New York City and Hudson Valley Organizing Representative; Campaign to Stop Two Potential New Gas Power Plants: Danskammer & Astoria; Tier 4.   Highlighted Issues: The Champlain Hudson Power Express has been in the planning stages for over a decade and would bring hydropower from Canadian mega dams to NYC through cables buried under the Hudson River.  A few of the many problems: 1. RACIAL INJUSTICE – Mega Dams displace Indigenous Peoples, their homes, hunting, fishing, and ways of life – without permission. 2. ENVIRONMENTAL – Huge tracks of forest are submerged, no longer able to absorb CO2, vegetation underwater produces methyl mercury – a poison – animals, fish, geese are lost. 3. HUDSON RIVER – PCBs and other toxins would be stirred up, fish species recently recovering would be damaged and people of the 7 communities along the Hudson that receive their drinking water from the Hudson would lose their water supply. 4. ECONOMIC – We need to keep good energy jobs and energy dollars here in NYS.   Please register for the virtual meeting via Zoom Webinar HERE.   PEACE, Join-Listen-Learn! CFS


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  • “Financing Opportunity For All” on Tuesday, June 1st 1-2pm ET

    The Climate and Finance Committee of the Sierra Club NYC Group invites you to attend its upcoming Zoom event: A Just Transition: Financing Opportunity…


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  • “Organic Waste Recycling in NYC” on March 17th at 7:00pm ET

    Did you know NYC spends $430 Million yearly on landfilling?  It has been proven that residential organic waste recycling is essential for both a sustainable NYC budget, but also…


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  • Climate and Finance Discussion on Monday, March 1st

    The Climate and Finance Committee of the Sierra Club’s NYC Group invites you to attend a virtual webinar on Monday, March 1st, to discuss New York’s Economic Transition in…


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  • Sustainability Series: Impact on the Emergence of Zoonotic Epidemics

    Here is an open invitation to join the Sustainability Series’ upcoming meeting to discuss Population and Land Use Impact on the Emergence of Zoonotic Epidemics.   The rate of…


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  • Climate and Finance Webinar on Monday, October 26th at 1pm

    The Climate and Finance Committee of the Sierra Club’s NYC Group invites you to attend a webinar on October 26th, to discuss investing in regenerative agriculture and the impacts to…


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  • Sustainability Series Webinar on Thursday, October 15th at 7pm

    The Sierra Club New York City Group Sustainability Series presents THREE CLIMATE/JUSTICE  INITIATIVES & VOTE: “Climate, Jobs & Justice Recovery Campaign, 2020 Climate Bill Package, and THRIVE Agenda…


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  • Plastic Pollution Webinar on Wednesday, October 14th at 7pm

    On Wednesday, October 14 at 7:00 p.m. will be a virtual discussion about plastic pollution by NYC Sierra Club’s Plastic Pollution Solutions Committee:


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