Eileen is the Virginia Conservation Program Manager with the Virginia Chapter Sierra Club.
Virginia Chapter Director Glen Besa is in Copenhagen for the COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference. Glen is blogging from the conference. His first post, “On the Eve of Copenhagen” is here at Sierra Club’s Climate Crossroads blog.
Glen also had the opportunity to take a boat tour of Middelgrunden (Denmark) offshore wind farm [...]
From off-shore drilling to mountain-top removal coal mining, Virginia stands to lose both mountains and coast if we continue to rely on fossil fuels. Hampton Roads is the 10th most vulnerable area to sea level rise on the planet, threatening the Chesapeake Bay, densely populated coastal communities, and several military installations.
We also have a lot [...]
Learn how Virginia can harness the cleanest, cheapest and quickest supply of energy, what our schools and communities can do now to save money and how we can all be a part.
Getting smarter about the way we use energy will save families money and create jobs right here in Virginia. Energy experts agree that by [...]
Our featured video was produced by Ivy Main, Renewable Energy Chair for the Virginia Chapter of the Sierra Club. Terrific job, Ivy!
Virginia’s National Forests are unique and treasured places. Together they comprise 1.7 million acres in Virginia, one of the most extensive tracts of public lands in the entire Southern Appalachians.
Over the past year Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards (SAMS) and Sierra Club have teamed with local residents in Wise County to oppose a new mountaintop removal coal mine on Black Mountain. The Ison Rock Ridge mine permit, being sought by A&G Coal Corporation, would obliterate approximately 1,300 acres of steep, forested, mountainous terrain near [...]
On day #46 of the devastating oil spill that continues to dump oil into Australian seas, the Sierra Club Virginia Chapter released images of that spill plotted off Virginia’s coast.
The images were commissioned from SkyTruth who used NASA and other government generated satellite images to depict the Australian oil spill that as of September 3 [...]
With a new president in 2009, the U.S is poised to take decisive action to address global warming. In anticipation of tighter controls on coal, utilities like Dominion-Virginia Power are rushing to get new coal fired power plants and power lines in place as quickly as possible. With your help we can stop these [...]
Virginia has one of the best sites in the world for offshore wind. A shallow outer continental shelf extending many miles out, combined with ample Class 5 (excellent) and 6 (outstanding) wind resources, means we could potentially meet 100% of our total energy demand from offshore wind turbines.
Wind is a clean, renewable resource. Unlike coal, [...]
Coal Country is a powerful film from Sierra Club Productions taking us inside modern coal mining. We get to know working miners along with activists who are battling coal companies in Appalachia. We visit the homes of people most directly affected by mountaintop removal mining (MTR) and hear about health problems, dirty water in their [...]
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