New Orleans Group of the Sierra Club |
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Welcome! The New Orleans Group is the home of Sierra Club members throughout much of southeastern Louisiana south of Lake Pontchartrain, ranging from the mouth of the Mississippi River to the River Parishes. We have monthly programs, an active conservation committee, and an outings program. As this web site evolves we'll be including more and more information on those.
Programs,
Meetings, and
Outings
General Programs are held at the Dominican Conference Center, 540 Broadway (one block south of St. Charles Avenue), New Orleans. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the program begins at 7:00 p.m. The programs are open to public and free of charge. Click here to find information about upcoming Programs in our area, Conservation Committee Meetings, and Executive Committee meetings. General Programs are open to the public; the other meetings are open to all members.
Also, click here to check our upcoming outings schedule.
If you would like to receive group action alerts and updates for meetings and upcoming events, please go to SierraClub_NewOrleans-subscribe@yahoogroups.com and add your email to the list.
Upcoming Chapter Events:
You are invited to
attend the only gubernatorial forum to focus on environmental and natural
resource conservation issues that will be held during the 2003
The forum will begin at
For more
information contact LEAN: (225) 928-1315 www.leanweb.org
Forum brought to you
by:
Coalition to Restore
Coastal
Gulf Restoration
Network
Citizens for A Clean
Environment
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The Louisiana Purchase Cypress Legacy campaign announces the discovery and location of several outstanding examples of one of Louisiana’s most precious assets—cypress trees that were alive at the time of the Louisiana Purchase. One of these Louisiana Purchase “Founder’s Trees” will be land marked with a plaque at the site of the event. When: Tuesday, August 19th, 2003 at 10:00 AM Where: 1664 Robert St. (corner of Baronne), New Orleans. Read more here.
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Hope you didn’t miss the April 2002 Bicycle Fest! Just in case, here are some photos!
Above are some members of the Louisiana
Student Action Coalition, an initiative of the New Orleans Sierra Club. If you would like to become a member
please send us an email.
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New Orleans Group
in the News:
Sierra Club to
Canvass Uptown
Members plan to
recruit door-to-door
Thursday June 12,
2003
Patricia
Livingston
The Times Picayune,
Uptown Section
The New Orleans
chapter of the Sierra Club is directing a canvass of Uptown residents throughout
June in a quest for new members and to stir up interest in the organization's
campaign against the intrusion of industry into our country's national forests
and monuments.
Monique Sullivan, who lives in our neighborhood and is an assistant canvass director, said that most workers wear official Sierra Club T-shirts or a pin to identify themselves.
If you have time to
listen when they ring your bell, they can tell you about their efforts, or, if
you're too busy, they have informative literature.
The Sierra Club was
founded in 1892; the local group usually meets the second Sunday of each month
at 7 p.m. at the Dominican Conference Center, 540 Broadway. The next meeting,
however, will be a covered-dish supper in Audubon Park on July 14 from 4 to 6
p.m. Annual dues are $35, and there's a special membership rate of $20 for those
who cannot be active in the organization but would like to receive Sierra, the
group's beautiful national magazine.
The club's local
projects include working to counteract coastal erosion and diminishing the
pollutants that created "cancer alley" upriver from New Orleans. For
information, call 314-1022.
Hope you didn’t miss the April 2002 Bicycle Fest! Just in case, here are some photos!
Get Active!
The United States has only 3% of world oil reserves but consumes 25% of world oil production. We cannot drill our way to energy independence!
*Let your Senators and Representatives know that you support increasing automobile fuel efficiency standards to 40 miles per gallon by 2012. By 2020 that would save us more oil than we currently import from the Persian Gulf and what is expected to be economically retrievable in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge combined!
*Also tell your elected officials that you support clean, alternative energy such as wind and solar, and urge them to support a Renewable Portfolio Standard of 20% by 2020, which would require utilities to acquire 20% of their energy from renewable sources.
*The above measures are the way to energy independence, increased national security, over 100,000 new jobs, and billions of dollars of savings at the gas pumps. Let those who represent you know that drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and America's other special places is not the answer!
*Contact Senator Mary Landrieu at United States
Senate
*Contact Senator John Breaux's office by Phone: (202) 224-4623; Fax: (202) 228-2577.
*Join the crusade today and sign on to the Patriot's Energy Pledge here!
Contact Us
- Snail mail: New Orleans Group, Box 19469, New Orleans, LA 70179-0469
- Phone: 1-504-836-3062
- Email: micah_walker@hotmail.com
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