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WELCOME

Welcome to the Sierra Club Connecticut Chapter!

 

A heartfelt welcome to your Sierra Club Connecticut Chapter, the local hearts and minds of the Sierra Club, where a dedicated community of volunteers, staff, and caring members like you champion a resilient and just environment for all. 

 

We can help you “explore, enjoy, and protect” our great outdoors and amplify your voice for climate, clean energy, thriving local wildlands and wildlife through impactful education and action.  

 

Your Connecticut Chapter offers unparalleled possibilities to participate in local outings, conservation, and environmental protection. Visit our Chapter calendar for educational and activist events and our Outings Group for hikes and other outings. Sign up to receive updates and news from the Connecticut Chapter here. If you would like to become involved in our work here in Connecticut, we have teams working to stop gas expansion, promote clean energy, pass strong environmental legislation and more. 

 

Now more than ever, your active participation and voice are needed to protect our environment and ensure a healthy and thriving future for all. We embrace and recognize the unique perspective of our members on today’s environmental issues and look forward to listening, learning, and partnering with you to make a positive difference in our region.

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About Us

 

The Sierra Club is the most enduring and influential grassroots environmental organization in the United States. We amplify the power of our 3.8 million members and supporters to defend everyone’s right to a healthy world.

 

Today, there are serious challenges ahead: a warming climate, unprecedented levels of pollution, and powerful special interests undermining basic protections. There’s no time to waste in coming together for new solutions—which is why the Sierra Club is bringing people together to build the most powerful and effective environmental movement the world has ever seen.

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Founded in 1972, The Connecticut Chapter of the Sierra Club is the state-level branch of the organization, and currently has more than 30,000 members and supporters.

 

Our mission is to advocate for and protect the resources of our state, from the waters of the Long Island Sound, to our hundreds of miles of coastal areas, to our forested upland hills, and the flora and fauna that occupy these places and the spaces in between. We are also advocates for and defenders of the people of Connecticut. We seek to make Connecticut a more equitable state by working alongside and organizing with communities most adversely affected by fossil fuel energy infrastructure, waste incinerators, and other polluting industries.

Our goals:
 

  • Solve the climate crisis primarily through a successful transition to a resource-efficient clean energy economy that better serves people and nature;

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  • Secure protections for public lands and waters, promote healthy ecosystems and communities, and fight for clean air and water;

 

  • Expand opportunities for more people to explore, enjoy, and protect the planet by supporting programs and policies that reach across economic, cultural, and community lines to get people outdoors; and

 

  • Build a diverse, inclusive environmental movement that reflects and represents today’s American public, and prioritizes important connections between environmental health and social justice.

How We Will Fulfill This Vision:

 

  • Fight for clean and healthy communities for all people in the state

  • Promote clean air, land, and water

  • Fight systemic and environmental racism

  • Fight to end fossil fuel expansion, especially fracked gas

  • Promote clean energy for all

  • Promote clean transportation for all

  • Promote Zero Waste policies

  • Protect open space and help to guarantee access to public lands is equitable

  • Protect and enhance our democracy here in the state

  • Protect wildlife in Connecticut and around the world

  • Help guarantee justice for all

  • Explore and enjoy the natural beauty of our state through Outings and Inspiring Connections Outdoors programs.

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