Sierra Club

(noun)

One of the oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organizations in the United States, founded in 1892.

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Examples of Sierra Club in the following topics:

  • Environmental Protests

    • Organizations like The Sierra Club and Greenpeace, as well as the book "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson, contributed to the growth of the environmental movement during this time period.
    • The Sierra Club was founded on May 28, 1892, in San Francisco, California, by the conservationist and preservationist John Muir, who became its first president.
    • During the 1800s, the Sierra Club worked to create national parks, such as Yosemite and Yellowstone National Parks.
    • The Sierra Club's most publicized crusade of the 1960s was the effort to stop the Bureau of Reclamation from building two dams that would flood portions of the Grand Canyon.
    • President Theodore Roosevelt and nature preservationist John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club, on Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park.

  • Legislative Leadership

    • Working through the Sierra Club, Muir succeeded in having Congress transfer the Mariposa Grove and Yosemite Valley to the federal government by 1905.

  • The Characteristics of Members

    • This includes the NAACP (represents African-American interests), the Sierra Club (represents environmental interests), the NRA (represents Second Amendment interests), and Common Cause (represents interests in an increase in voter turnout and knowledge).
    • This includes the NAACP(represents African-American interests), the Sierra Club (represents environmental interests), the NRA (represents Second Amendment interests, ), and Common Cause (represents interests in an increase in voter turnout and knowledge).

  • Roosevelt and Conservation

    • Working through the Sierra Club, Muir succeeded in having Congress transfer the Mariposa Grove and Yosemite Valley to the federal government by 1905.

  • Members

    • Examples include the NAACP (African-American interests), the Sierra Club (environmental interests), the NRA (Second Amendment interests), and Common Cause (interests in an increase in voter turnout and knowledge).

  • Ten ways to minimize product waste

    • The company subsequently won a rare endorsement from the Sierra Club for its efforts.

  • Introduction to Ongoing Measurement and Record-Keeping

    • In 1979, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company founders Ken Grossman and Paul Camusi cobbled together a brewery using second-hand dairy tanks, equipment salvaged from defunct beer businesses, and a soft-drink bottling machine.
    • Today, Sierra Nevada employs over 450 people and produces nine award-winning types of beer, ale and stout.
    • According to Sierra Nevada's sustainability coordinator, Cheri Chastain, regular measurement helps determine where the company is wasting water, electricity and other resources as well as where physical waste is being produced.
    • Typical measurements recorded by Sierra Nevada's waste reduction program that have helped the company save millions of dollars annually include:
    • To round out Sierra's waste measurements, greenhouse gas inventories are also kept.

  • Venn Diagrams (optional)

    • Five percent of the students work part time and belong to a club.
    • Let C = student belongs to a club and PT = student works part time.
    • The probability that the student belongs to a club.
    • The probability that the student belongs to a club AND works part time.
    • The probability that the student belongs to a club OR works part time.

  • The Working Woman

    • Indignant that she and other women were denied admittance to a banquet honoring Charles Dickens in 1868 at the all-male New York Press Club simply because they were women, she resolved to organize a club for women only.
    • Croly proposed a conference in New York that brought together delegates from 61 women's clubs.
    • The constitution was adopted in 1890, and the General Federation of Women's Clubs was born.
    • The GFWC also counts international clubs among its members.
    • Although women's clubs were founded primarily as a means of self-education and development for women, the emphasis of most local clubs gradually changed to one of community service and improvement.

  • Basidiomycota: The Club Fungi

    • The basidiomycota are mushroom-producing fungi with developing, club-shaped fruiting bodies called basidia on the gills under its cap.
    • The fungi in the Phylum Basidiomycota are easily recognizable under a light microscope by their club-shaped fruiting bodies called basidia (singular, basidium), which are the swollen terminal cell of a hypha.
    • The club-shaped basidium carries spores called basidiospores.