Welcome to the Rochester Regional Group of the Sierra Club

The purpose of this site is to provide information and enhance both communication and participation of Sierra Club members and concerned citizens in preserving our environment. The Rochester Regional Group falls under the Atlantic Chapter of the Sierra Club, which in turn falls under the Sierra Club Home Page: Explore, Enjoy and Protect the Planet. Be Sure to check our latest public programs: calendar

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The 15^th Annual Sierra Club Environmental Forum, April 25-26 – Great Lakes Need Great Friends: Protecting the Great Lakes Forever was a huge success! Maude Barlow inspired about 280 audience members, as she talked about:

• The many people across the world—including in our “civilized” United States—who do not have access to clean, fresh water.
• How pollution, irrigation practices, and climate change are diminishing the volume of fresh water on the Earth.
• The corporate, government, and trade organizations that have and are actively seeking to privatize water resources.
• How we need to treat the Great Lakes as one big watershed Commons and how we can protect it as a “protected bioregion” using the framework of the Public Trust.

The Forum served to expand the community conversation about the need to protect our fresh water, and it’s not over. This will continue to be a focus over the next year and beyond, as we hold additional educational programs and take action to protect our Great Lakes Basin.

Please join us! There will be a follow-up meeting on May 29th from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM at the Cornell Cooperative Extension in the Highland Room. 249 Highland Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620.

If you are interested, please RSVP at GreatLakesCommitteeSC@gmail.com.

If you missed last year's forum you can now see it here:

If you missed this year's forum you can now see it here:

To learn more:

• Our Forum was a stop on Maude’s Tour “Great Lakes Need Great Friends.”  Here is info about her Tour.
• Here, read her paper Our Great Lakes Commons: A People’s Plan to Protect the Great Lakes Forever. Our work moving forward will be based on these ideas. It’s 38 pages, but is very readable, and you will be VERY well-versed in the topic when you are finished. Definitely worth a read!

·         Please also view the following partner websites:

FLOW (For Love Of Water) http://flowforwater.org/

Food and Water Watch http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/

Please help us staff recycling stations at Rochester Tour De Cure, June 2nd

Our Rochester Sierra Club Zero Waste committee is taking a big leap in trying to get local events to be nearly zero waste—with the help of Epiphergy. We need your help to make this Sunday, June 2^nd a success and raise public awareness about the importance of reducing waste during Rochester’s many events.

Please let Dave Goldman [ dhgdeals@aol.com ] know that you can help out for 3 hours, then fill out the Tour De Cure form, as explained before.  Dave Goldman is collecting names in order to keep our tables staffed, and the Tour De Cure form is to make sure you get a free T-shirt and food during the event. 

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The purpose of this Group is to foster (within its territorial limits) the purposes of the Sierra Club, as stated in its bylaws: 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.

Here's what we do:

• We need Volunteers for various positions

• Zero Waste A committee to re-energize and rethink ways to mobilize our community to recycle more waste, and do it more effectively 

• Our Wetlands Committee is helping to build a wetland near Buckland Creek in Brighton.

• We take Action on local environmental issues:

• We initiated a long-term partnership with the City of Rochester to restore and protect the beautiful forest of Washington Grove at Cobb's Hill Park. This is a unique community-wide effort. Please contact Peter Debes at phdebes@frontiernet.net to get involved.

• Each April, near Earth Day, we provide a major environmental Forum -2013 Forum 

• Each year, we conduct a series of outings for our members to discover and protect our environment

• We have several conservation committees that provide monthly public programs throughout the year on specific conservation topics.

• We host a weekly e-mail list to members and non-members of our continual environmental events and actions -sent out every Saturday. (see other column to sign up.)

• Four times a year, we publish our Eco-Logue Newsletter to inform of members of all the issues we are engaged in.

• Each year, we sponsor a Fall Festival

* As you can see, we have lots of projects on our plate and we can always use more help. Join us! Contact Us!

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