September 11, 2008
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To: Sierra Club Staff and Volunteers
Fr: Allison Chin, President, and Carl Pope, Executive Director
Background
To meet the most demanding challenge of our time, the Sierra Club is designing, building, and will be implementing the Climate Recovery Partnership -- a bold, comprehensive, and complementary set of six campaigns crafted to combat climate change.
The aims of the Climate Recovery Partnership -- a joint effort by the Sierra Club and The Sierra Club Foundation -- are to curb runaway global warming, ensure that wildlands, wildlife, and communities are prepared for the changing climate, and eventually reverse global warming. Find out more here.
We have already launched one of the Partnership’s campaigns -- the highly successful effort to "Move Beyond Coal.” Now we are ready to take the next steps on developing four of the remaining five featured objectives and to build them into full-fledged, large-scale, priority campaigns. (The Community Preparedness Campaign is on a slower time frame.)
Request
We need your help in developing these four campaigns. The perspectives you bring, from different parts of the country, with differing types of expertise and unique local and national knowledge are key to shaping winning strategies and effective campaigns.
Currently, we are mapping out strategies for the following campaigns:
Clean Energy Solutions: Rebuild and Repower America We need to grow a clean energy economy by repowering America with green, renewable energy and rebuilding America with high performance homes and buildings, linked together by a 21st century electranet.
Curbing CarbonThe Curbing Carbon Campaign will focus the Sierra Club’s effort for the next four years to achieve public support and U.S. ratification of a strong international climate treaty and passage of key federal laws and policies. These outcomes will shape the transformation of the economy to reduce emissions that destabilize the climate and endanger natural systems and human society.
Green Transportation: Cars, Fuels, and CommunitiesAmerica needs clean and highly efficient vehicles powered by sustainably-produced and steadily lower carbon fuels and clean electricity. Our communities need accessible and convenient transportation options other than cars available to them.
Strengthening Resilient HabitatsOur current philosophy and approaches to protecting America’s wild legacy must change in the reality of a changing climate. We must test, learn, and implement new approaches to protecting natural areas, both in remote locations and in close proximity to human communities. Our goal is to minimize the losses of wild places and biodiversity and to protect nature which will provide a vital and cost-effective way of protecting human communities against the adverse effects of climate change.
We invite you to share your experiences and perspectives with us in one or both of the following ways:
Weight In on Online Survey
The survey here asks questions about each of the four campaigns, different approaches we could take and strategies we could pursue, and about the overall Climate Recovery Partnership. Your knowledge of issues, combined with specific knowledge of your community, will provide valuable information that will help us shape these campaigns.
[Available through September 30.]
Post Feedback on Comment Board
We have comment boards for each of the draft Strategic Summaries, which you can find on the Climate Recovery Partnership pages in Clubhouse Please share your comments after reading through the draft Strategic Summaries.
[Comment period ends September 30.]
Next Steps
The feedback, comments, and survey results will inform the next draft of the Strategic Summary for each of the four campaigns. The revised versions will then be submitted to the Board of Directors on their October call for approval.
Thanks,
--Allison Chin Sierra Club President
--Carl Pope Sierra Club Executive Director
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