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Lisa DiCaprio Receives New York City Council Herstory Award
March 28, 2018. Lisa DiCaprio, Conservation Chair, Sierra Club NYC Group (right) receives a 2018 New York City Council Herstory Award for her environmental advocacy. She was nominated for…
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Lisa DiCaprio, Five Years of Activism: NYC Commits to Fossil Fuel Divestment, Spring 2018 Sierra Atlantic
by Lisa DiCaprio, Conservation Chair, Sierra Club NYC Group At a January 10, 2018, press conference, Mayor Bill de Blasio, NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer and several NYC pension trustees, including…
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Take Action: Tell your Senators not to gut organic agriculture protections!
Bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides. Monsanto’s monarch-harming Roundup®. Dow’s Agent Orange pesticide. All these toxic chemicals and more could soon find their way into organic agriculture — if some members…
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Sophie Gerson Healthy Youth – Students Visit Lamont-Doherty Observatory
Recently, the Sierra Club’s NYC Group sponsored six NYC public school eighth grade classes to visit the Lamont-Doherty Observatory of Columbia University’s renowned Earth Institute. The Sierra Club extended…
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Volunteer Opportunity: Bookkeeper
Current volunteer opportunity exists to assist the Sierra Club’s NYC Group as a Bookkeeper. Responsibilities: Create monthly statements and an annual report. Quickbooks knowledge helpful. The NYC Group annual report is…
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New Study: EPA’s ‘Safe’ Levels of this Chemical in Your Food Aren’t So Safe After All
Last summer, the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) announced that our testing of Ben & Jerry’s popular ice cream flavors for glyphosate (the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller) turned…
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National Recycling Coalition on China’s Recycled Material Embargo
National Recycling Coalition Press Release Issued May 15: Recycled materials and trash should look very different from each other, but for years they have been converging in the U.S. China…
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Another Voice: Wind turbines offer economic and environmental opportunity
Article by Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter Energy Committee Chair Bob Ciesielski; reposted from Buffalo News: http://buffalonews.com/2018/04/25/another-voice-wind-turbines-offer-economic-and-environmental-opportunity/ In 2016, New York’s Clean Energy Standard committed to supplying 50 percent of our electricity…
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New Reports Emerge Linking Gas Emissions with Human Activity
Two new reports take a closer look at the link between human activities and increased greenhouse gas emissions. The first, a study coming from researchers at the University of Michigan…
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March Sustainability Series Summary: Pesticides are Poisons
At Sierra Club NYC Group’s March Sustainability Series, three speakers highlighted the dangers of pesticides and the necessity of both personal and legislative actions and protections against the dangerous…
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