Visit our new Delta Chapter website!

New Orleans Group of the Sierra Club has moved to a more modern and featured website alongside our statewide Delta Chapter of the Sierra Club where you can read more information about a variety of issues we're following, engage in dialogue, and see photos of recent events and recreational outings. Visit us at http://sierraclub.org/louisiana for these statewide concerns and opportunities.  Also visit our New Orleans Sierran discussion group on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/76134098503/about/

Before you go, give a LIKE to our Delta Chapter of the Sierra Club official Facebook Page for updates on our website activity and a multitude of environmental conservation issues from the Southeast Louisiana region, as well as State of Louisiana as a whole.

For opportunities to go hiking and paddling, we've partnered with Canoe & Trail Adventures to sponsor a MEETUP where you can get up to date outing schedules from across the chapter.

The Future of Electric Vehicles - June 27

The Future of EVs (Electric Vehicles) 

Joint Meeting of the New Orleans Sierra Club and EV-LA.org

 

Tuesday, June 27, 2017
6:00 to 7:30 pm, at Rosa F. Keller Library & Community Center, 4300 S Broad Ave, New Orleans, LA 70125 (has parking lot).

Guest speaker: Guy Hall, Presenting: The Future of Electric Vehicles

Guy Hall, is a Global Technologist with 29 years of R&D and Leadership for Hewlett Packard in countries such as Germany, Canada, Slovenia, Russia, India, China, Costa Rica, Singapore, Hungary, England, and France. He became interested in Electric Vehicles (EVs) in 2010 as a solution to our environmental,  economic and security challenges.  His drive expanded the Sacramento Electric Auto Association membership 20 fold, and as its President, established SacEV as a 600 member regional organization with a talented board for EV knowledge, events and activities.  He is the Board Secretary of the national Electric Auto Association and a Director on the Sacramento Clean Cities Coalition. Recently, Hall became the first driver to have navigated an EV from the lower 48 through Canada to Fairbanks in his Tesla Tijuana To Tundra Tour (T5), while promoting electric transportation with utilities, government agencies and news media in route. The Hall family currently owns two Nissan LEAFs, a Chevy Volt, and Tesla Model X.

Social time 6-6:30 PM, Presentation 6:30-7:30 PM.
For more information contact:
Jeff Cantin, EV-LA.org
Dave Stets, Sierra Club

Take Action, check out the Sierra Club's EV Guide! 

Follow us on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/76134098503/

Or on MEETUP:

https://www.meetup.com/Sierra-Club-Delta-Chapter

Resisting the Trump Environmental Agenda - June 11

Orleans Sierra Club presents: "Making America Gross Again: Resisting the Trump Environmental Agenda"

Aaron Viles from Care2.com will discuss tactics and strategies for blocking Trump's efforts to roll back our environmental and public health safeguards.

New location for this months’ meeting:

First Unitarian Universalist Church of New Orleans

2903 Jefferson Avenue (corner of Jefferson & Claiborne) New Orleans, LA
All parking is on-street.  RTA Bus routes 15, 16, and 28 are nearest the church.

ADA compliant parking spots located on Soniat Street side parking of the church.
Bicycle parking available on a small rack on site.

Free and open to all

6:30 pm refreshments    7 to 8 pm program

Call 504-307-0187 with questions.

Follow us on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/76134098503/

Or on MEETUP:

https://www.meetup.com/Sierra-Club-Delta-Chapter

Legislative Updates from the Delta Chapter

Delta Chapter Sierra Club Chair Woody Martin and our Legislative Action Team are in Baton Rouge throughout the regular State Legislative session contacting legislators and speaking on bills in committee. Their freshest update on June 4th is now available for your review. Regularly they send requests for Sierrans to contact their legislators on bills of concern to conserving our environment, the public health, and matters of our rights under law more broadly. To follow their updates, sign up for email alerts, and to get involved, visit the Delta Chapter of the Sierra Club's political and legislative page for more:

https://sierraclub.org/louisiana/legislative-update

Resistance to Bayou Bridge Pipeline

New Orleans Group of the Sierra Club presents: 

Resistance to the Bayou Bridge Pipeline

Freelance environmental writer Chris Staudinger will speak about the proposed Bayou Bridge Pipeline, which has garnered national resistance as a leg on the southern terminus of the infamous Dakota Access Pipeline network. He will present reasons why this new pipeline project (out of the thousands in Louisiana) has faced such strong opposition, and he will present the most recent developments in the ongoing story.

Audubon Zoo Dominion Auditorium

(Go through the gate behind the Audubon Statue at the front of the zoo)

 

Sunday, May 21, 2017
6:30 PM refreshments 
7 to 8 PM program

Free and open to all, and you can even bring a friend!!

Call  504-307-0187 with questions.

Follow the New Orleans Group Sierra Club on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/76134098503/

Or on the Delta Chapter website:

http://sierraclub.org/louisiana