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Sierra
Club
The
following information is from the Sierra Club website, www.sierraclub.org.
The Sierra Club’s members are 700,000 of your friends and neighbors. Inspired
by nature, we work together to protect our communities and the planet. The Club
is America’s oldest, largest and most influential grassroots environmental
organization. The Sierra Club was founded in 1892 by John Muir. To learn more
about the Sierra Club’s history and accomplishments over the past century click
here.
Sierra Club Mission Statement:
- Explore,
enjoy and protect the wild places of the earth.
- Practice
and promote the responsible use of the earth’s ecosystems
and resources.
- Educate
and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural
and human environment.
- Use
all lawful means to carry out these objectives.
Through
grassroots activism, public education, lobbying and litigation, the
Sierra Club works to protect the health of our environment and to
preserve our remaining wild places.
Here
are just a few of the accomplishments that the Sierra Club has helped
bring about:
- establishment
of Yosemite and Yellowstone national parks
- enactment
of the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act
- national
monument status for Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante
- Alaska
National Interest Lands Conservation Act designating more than
100 million acres of parks, wildlife refuges, and wilderness areas
No
matter where you live, there’s a Sierra Club chapter or group
near you. There are chapters in every state. All chapters have groups,
which are organized geographically around local issues.
Each chapter and group is guided by an executive committee elected by the members.
Approximately 5,000 volunteers nationwide are elected or appointed to leadership
positions, such as chapter chair, chapter treasurer, committee chair, and outings
leader. The Club structure allows us to work on multiple levels to solve problems.
Nationwide membership gives the Sierra Club clout with Congress and the White
House, while local groups and chapters help us influence city council members,
county commissioners, and state officials. The local groups also put pressure
on their members of Congress — remember what former House Speaker Tip
O’Neill said: “All politics is local.” This one-two punch
is a powerful combination.
The Illinois Chapter currently has approximately 25,000 members and 15 local
groups. The Illinois Chapter office in Chicago is staffed by several paid staff
members and the local groups are managed entirely by volunteers. For more information
on the Illinois Chapter click
here. The Northwest Cook County Group (NWCCG) is a local group of
the Illinois Chapter. The NWCCG has approximately 2,000 members and covers
the northwest suburbs of Cook County.
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This
page last revised on July 7, 2008
Copyright© 2008
Northwest Cook County Group, Illinois Chapter, the Sierra Club.
The
Northwest Cook County Group website designed and maintained by Joyce May.
Please contact the webmaster at nwccg2webmaster@earthlink.net if
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or find any problems regarding this website.
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