Links and other updates from Sierra Club Seattle Group Articles Could the voting rights fight hinder climate and energy policies? (Politico) “The same people that are impacted by climate change and pollution and environmental injustice are the same people that are targeted by voter suppression and corporate polluter money because the…

Links and other updates from Sierra Club Seattle Group Articles What’s In a Name: Ending Exclusionary Zoning (The Urbanist) Big changes are underway to right historical wrongs, and we can’t rebuild Seattle in a day or with one piece of legislation, but this one piece of legislation is absolutely a critical…

Weekly links and other updates from Sierra Club Seattle Group Articles An American Buys an E-Bike Every 52 Seconds (Streetsblog) As Washington gears up to pour billions into getting Americans behind the wheel of electric cars, demand for electric bicycles is soaring — and advocates say that demand would be even…

Editor’s note: Sierra Club Seattle Group recently signed on to this important letter from the Housing Development Consortium, which we share here to amplify our call. June 22nd, 2021 Dear Mayor Durkan and OPCD, RE: Call for the Release of the Racial Equity Toolkit Analysis Report On behalf of our…

Weekly links and other updates from Sierra Club Seattle Group Announcements Sierra Club Announces Support for Black Reparations As the climate crisis continues to disproportionately harm Black communities, it is up to us to build an intersectional climate justice movement that ensures a habitable planet for all people. And we cannot…

Weekly links and other updates from Sierra Club Seattle Group Articles The Queer City: How to Design More Inclusive Public Space (StreetsBlog) City planners need to cater to the specific needs of all sectors of the population. For the LGBTQ+ community, this does not just mean preserving venues and historic landmarks…

Weekly links and other updates from Sierra Club Seattle Group Articles We, alongside our neighbors in Canada, are heartbroken over the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves of Indigenous children at a Kamloops residential school. If you’d like to donate to help survivors, one option is the Indian Residential Schools Survivors…

Weekly links and other updates from Sierra Club Seattle Group Articles ‘I can feel your breath’: when COVID-19 and environmental racism collide (The Narwhal) “Environmental racism is based on this idea that we aren’t human enough to deserve a clean environment. Nobody cares if we get sick and die because we’re…

The Seattle Group Executive Committee is now recruiting. Do you: -Have all the Link Light Rail expansion plans memorized? -Bore friends at parties by talking endlessly about the housing crisis? -Evangelize your e-bike everywhere you go? Congratulations, you‘re just our type! Sierra Club Seattle Group wants YOU for our executive…