The Sierra Club is the oldest grassroots environmental organisation in the United States. Since its inception in 1892, it has played a key role in influencing conservation policy and environmental history. The Sierra Club achieves its objectives by supplying a national community of volunteers, advocates, and grassroots activists with the tools and resources to make their voices heard across the United States.

The Sierra Club’s operations are guided by five goals:

1. Achieve ambitious and just climate solutions
2. Explore, enjoy and protect the nation’s lands, waters, air and wildlife
3. Engage and support a broad, diverse, inclusive, and powerful movement
4. Become an ever stronger, high-performance organization
5. Ensure the organisation’s financial strength and sustainability

Some of the Sierra Club’s ongoing campaigns include:

• Ready For 100 – a national movement with a vision of resilient and healthy communities powered by 100% clean, renewable energy. They work with cities and towns to achieve an equitable and just transition to 100% clean, renewable energy for all.
• Beyond Coal – a campaign to close all coal plants in the U.S. and replace them entirely with sources of clean energy, as well as seeking justice for the affected people and environmental resources that surround them.
• Fighting Oil and Gas – for more than seven years, the Sierra Club has successfully helped block the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, in addition to applying the same tools to winning fights against other pipelines and oil-train terminals across the country.
• Clean Transportation For All – this multifaceted campaign involves advocating for federal, state, and local policies that will make electric vehicles more accessible to all communities, urging the US government to establish stronger vehicle pollution standards and encouraging investment in biking, pedestrian, and public transit programs, as well as changing land use for more walkable, bikeable and transit-friendly communities.

• To explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth;
• To practice and promote the responsible use of the earth’s ecosystems and resources;
• To educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment and to use all lawful means to carry out these objectives.

Sierra Club relies on public donations to fund its operations.

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