The Sierra Club is the oldest Conservation organization in the U.S. The Virginia Chapter includes the entire state of Virginia. We are your friends and neighbors working to build healthy, livable communities, and to conserve and restore our natural environment. Join us!

Virginia Chapter Events

Sep 10 - 12
Fall Jamboree
The Virginia Chapter Sierra Club is holding a jamboree at the Ecology Center at Pocahontas State Park. Friday evening social and campfire sing along. Saturday and Sunday presentations on environmental education and updates on other issues of concern to Virginians. Successful local solutions such as community-based agriculture, land conservancies and other projects here in Virginia will be emphasized. Walks will also be offered for those who want to enjoy the outdoors.

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Newsletter

The Old Dominion Sierran is published 6 times a year. Read the current and recent issues online.

 

Take Action for Smart Energy Solutions

Solving global warming will take action at all levels. Citizens, governments, unions and businesses all must be involved to make the solutions work. Take action by:

• Attend our May 8 Rally for Clean Energy in Richmond.  Click Here for Details.
• Sign the Mile-Long Petition for Smart Energy Solutions to Dominion Online
• Click Here for More Information on our Dominion Campaign.
• Getting involved in the Sierra Club.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sierra Club Releases Citizens Energy Plan for Virginia: 

A new vision to help Virginia cut our global warming pollution while creating jobs and building a new energy economy based on conservation, efficiency and clean renewable energy.  Download the PDF.

Hot Topics

To View the Virginia Chapter's Statement on the Sierra Club's Recent Product Endorsement, click here.

Solving global warming requires Smarter Growth: Coalition for Smarter Growth, Sierra Club, and others released a new report showing that smart growth is essential to solving global warming (and it will make our communities worth living in).

VICTORY! James City County becomes a Cool County. Congratulations to the Sierra Club, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, and William and Mary's SEAC activists that got James City County to be a Cool County.

Cool Communities adds Fairfax County and Arlington County! Get involved with our Cool Cities Initiatives and other efforts we are making at the local and state level in Virginia to reduce our carbon footprint.

Land Use and Transportation Sprawl is land use that spreads new development farther and farther from existing communities and consumes more land than ever before. This type of development is costly to taxpayers and is leading to a deteriorating quality of life for Virginians.

Take Action

Join Smart Energy Solutions for Virginia Facebook Group: Are you a member of Facebook, the online social networking site? If so, join our facebook group, and ask your friends to join. It is a great way to show support for Smart Energy Solutions, find out about upcoming events, have discussions about solutions, and keep informed about the campaigns.

Help Stop Dominion's Destructive Power Lines. Virginia Can Do Better than more destructive power lines supplying more dirty coal energy. Dominion Virginia Power and Allegheny Energy are actively soliciting support for a massive 500-kV transmission line that would cut through private land, park land, historic sites, historic districts, civil war battlefields, magnificent viewsheds and a high concentration of conservation easements.  Dominion and Allegheny are asking Delegates, Senators and private citizens from all over the state to send letters to the State Corporation Commission in support of this ill-conceived proposal.  

Be sure to sign up for our Virginia Sierra Club Action Alert System!   This will notify you by email when we need you to take action to protect Virginia's environment by contacting your public officials.