Sierra Club NYC

Accelerate NYC’s green transformation, and build community, sustainability and resiliency.
Use our unique grassroots marketing program to form neighborhood partnerships, set up screenings of sustainability documentaries like Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, and jumpstart local hands-on volunteer projects.  Projects may include painting the roofs of buildings white, to lower air conditioning costs, and cut NYC energy use.  We are working with the Mayor's Office of Long-Term Planning (PlaNYC) to set up such projects. What's the next step in transforming your community? We can become greener and save money in our daily lives, homes and businesses while meeting neighbors and making new friends.
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Sierra Club NYC Summer 2009 Newsletter Now Online

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Upper West Side Sustainability Network a model for other NYC neighborhoods / Applying Transition Towns Model in NYC / The Stimulus, New York City, and Green Jobs / Post Carbon Institute Manifesto: The Time for Change has Come / Envisioning NYC Transformed / National Women’s Day Panel on Gender, Climate Change and Population /  Vegetable Gardening: Everybody’s Doing It! /

Sierra Club NYC Calls for City to Prepare for Higher Oil Prices
Oil prices are low now, because of the economic contraction, but will go back up, not only because investment in new drilling fell off, but because of geological limits on fuel supplies.  "Sustainable Energy Independence for NYC" calls for City officials, as well as civic and business leaders, to begin planning now to buffer the economic impacts.  The report argues for sustainable policies on economic, job creation and national security grounds in addition to their necessity for climate change response.  By incorporating concern about higher energy costs, future PlaNYC initiatives can get broader public support.